Ben must deliver a cake with real bite as he makes a shark's head as a surprise for a 60th birthday. Sculpted from vanilla and chocolate sponge, it comes with realistic eyes and a full set of pointy sugar paste teeth. Baking meets building for Lancashire based Molly, as she sculpts a cake replica of Queen Anne's Summer House to celebrate a construction company's 40th anniversary. Made from red velvet and Victoria sponge, Molly layers the cake like bricks as a special surprise when the cake is cut. Nastassja tackles an unconventional wedding centrepiece, with a three-foot tall, 60 kilo, modern wedding cake. Built from lemon, red velvet and vanilla cake, it's decorated in edible lace, black sugar crystals and fondant petals, but her hardest task is working out how to separate the heavy tiers using a lit and flower filled glass vase!
Molly tackles a tricky T-Rex fourth birthday cake for a dinosaur-crazy little boy's big day. Two-foot long and weighing in at 20 kilos, this prehistoric sponge comes complete with piercing eyes, pointy teeth, and a clutch of eggs wrapped as presents. Michelle takes on a commission close to home, as husband Michael asks her to make a technically challenging cake to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his IT company. In Shotton, former tattoo artist turned cake maker Ben's next cake requires military precision, as he tackles a 60th birthday caricature that must show the birthday boy dressed in his 'airsoft' game combat gear. But things don't go according to plan as Ben battles with stability issues due to his cake's oversized head!
Penzance bakers Phil and Christine take on a very unusual commission as they make a cake to celebrate a friend's recovery from a broken ankle, and devise a leg shaped cake, complete with a removable plaster cast made from modelling chocolate. Michelle makes an edible work of art for her village's annual arts festival, in the form of a six-and-a-half-foot-tall lime tree cake, with 20 kilos of edible bark and hundreds of hand-coloured rice paper leaves. Nastassja tackles a four-and-a-half-foot-tall wedding cake, embellished with fondant flowers and edible lace, which must also include traditional kente fabric patterns in its design as nod to the happy couple's Ghanaian heritage.
In London, cake maker Nastassja's pushing the boat out for her latest commission to celebrate little Noah's first birthday. Asked for a Noah's Ark themed cake, Nastassja's planning to position her revolving edible boat on a giant spurt of water made from 12 layers of vanilla sponge, topped with rice cereal and marshmallow waves. Molly's hoping to make a bit of a flutter as she creates a giant butterfly cake for a birthday surprise. Sculpted from vanilla sponge sandwiched with buttercream, she'll use all her sugar craft and air brushing skills to capture the insect's delicate and distinctive blue and pink markings in vibrant sugar paste. In Lancashire, Rosie's aiming to hit the jackpot with a working roulette table cake for a gala dinner. Taking five days to make, and built from chocolate orange cake, it comes complete with an edible life-like, highly detailed croupier!
In this episode, there's animal magic and a bespoke wedding cake that oozes elegance. In Lancashire, Molly's latest commission ruffles some feathers as she makes a surprise cake in the shape of a real Golden Eagle for a 51st birthday. Called Bella, the creature is perched on a chocolate cake tree stump decorated with edible forest creatures and toadstools. In Penzance, Phil and Christine must earn their stripes with a baby tiger cake for the opening of a new cake school, but snow could put a halt to their plans! In Saddleworth, wedding cake specialist Suzanne's skills are put to the test as she and her team tackle a five-tier floral wedding cake. With an elegant 16' petal shaped base tier, this three-foot cake is adorned in over 50 sugar roses and hundreds of smaller blossoms and leaves which take over 30 hours alone to create.
Nastassja attempts an edible baby's mobile suspended off the ground for a little boy's first birthday. Sculpted from chocolate brownie cake and rice cereal and marshmallow mix, this cloud themed hanging cake has cloud and giraffe shaped cookies dangling from it - perfect for little hands to grab. Rosie's also facing a first birthday challenge as she makes a cake replica of a beloved pet to celebrate TV presenter Lorraine Kelly's dog Angus's special day. Lying on a fondant blanket, Rosie's border terrier is built from chocolate orange cake, decorated in 15 kilos of sculpted modelling chocolate and sugar paste.
It's unicorn fever, as our cake makers are set the challenge of producing three unique unicorn cakes. Essex based sugar craft specialist Eloise uses all the colours of the rainbow to make a stunning two-foot tall 10th birthday cake, compete with over 150 multi-coloured roses. Rosie tackles a rocking unicorn cake for a special christening party. Taking five days to make, and wrapped in a whopping 50 kilos of fondant, her biggest challenge will be hand sculpting the tail, mane, and saddle blanket. Molly conjures up a dappled delight, as she creates a multi-coloured mystical unicorn, complete with a golden horn, edible flowers and butterflies, to surprise eight-year-old birthday girl Maddison.
More extreme challenges as this time Ben's asked for a cake 'take' on a much-loved motor for a surprise 21st birthday cake, and he's hoping replica of this boy racer's hot hatch will hit the spot. Made from two large vanilla sponges, wrapped in two kilos of fondant, Ben needs all his sculpting skills to replicate every pimped-up detail. Suzanne delves into circus history with a cake to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founder of the modern circus, Philp Astley. Reflecting his 18th century circus show, her two-tiered extravaganza features fondant figurines taking a curtain call at the base, and a hand painted crowd, topped with an intricate figure of the great showman himself. In Essex, Eloise is going 'all in' with her next commission for a Craps Table cake to celebrate the wedding of a couple who recently married in Las Vegas.
Lancashire baker Molly hopes to make a splash with her next cake as she's asked to bake a cake replica of a very special carp - the prize catch of angler Andrew, as a surprise for his 50th birthday. Made from red velvet sponge, this two-and-a-half-foot long whopper comes complete with over 150 hand cut sugar paste scales. Wedding cake specialist Suzanne takes a break from the norm as she's asked to make a 30th birthday cake for a modern art fan, who wants an edible installation as a centrepiece for his party.
Molly digs deep for her latest commission as her Gran needs a cake to celebrate Older Peoples' Day. Her stunning two-foot square allotment themed cake comes complete with a cake and biscuit tool shed, florist paste picket fence, fondant crazy paving, and even a pair of edible muddy boots. Nastassja must make a birthday cake as glamorous as the birthday girl herself, to take centre stage at a dinner party. Made from amaretto and red velvet cake covered in buttercream and gold leaf, her toughest challenge will be adding over 200 wafer paper discs and getting this two-and-a-half-foot tall cake to hang upside down.
Former tattoo artist Ben Cullen feels the pressure as he's asked to make a caricature of a cake maker for a 50th birthday party. Standing over two feet tall and dressed in a black and white sugar paste tuxedo, it's intricately carved to catch the birthday boy's cheeky character. Nastassja tackles an unconventional fifth wedding anniversary cake for a couple who want a work of art, rather than a traditional cake, hand decorated with hundreds of edible paper strips. Meanwhile, showbiz comes to Penzance, as Phil and Christine plan a mechanical masterpiece, with a five foot wide glittery lorry cake, complete with rotating edible kinky boots for a musical's first night party.
Fondant meets fashion for an eighth birthday celebration for Karisha's niece and two friends as they hold a joint birthday party. Going for a catwalk design, with gum paste models of the girls, the big surprise is cake handbags that can actually be picked up and carried! Molly makes a cake take of a favourite farmyard animal when she's asked for a life-like donkey as a surprise 50th birthday cake. Built from Victoria sponge and rice cereal and marshmallow mix, it comes with two extra edible friends in the form of the birthday girl's pet Labradors. Penzance bakers Phil and Christine tackle their most monumental bake to date as they make a six ft wide scale replica of Stonehenge. Featuring 84 hand sculpted edible stones, sat on a spiced apple and blackberry cake large enough to feed two and a half thousand people, the finished cake weighs in at an astonishing 178 kilos!
Cake artist Michelle's world almost comes crashing down as she tackles a three foot wide rotating planet earth cake to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a travel guide. Phil and Christine must miniaturise their skills, as they tackle their smallest wedding cake to date for a couple who've eloped to Cornwall to get married. Consisting of two tiny Mr and Mrs cakes, they're surrounded by a 'moon gate' of sugar flowers and each one is decorated to match their wedding outfits. Molly makes a spectacular life-like, regal leopard cake, complete with a sugar paste crown, to help raise money at a charity auction. Built from eight vanilla Genoese sponges, it sports a sparkling black and gold, intricately marked 'fur' coat.
Lancashire based cake maker Molly faces an animal first, as she bakes cake replicas of some cherished pets, creating two huge guinea pigs complete with party hats and presents, as a special surprise for birthday girl Isabella. Rosie takes on one of her most complex commissions to date as she tackles a five-foot wide Egyptian mummy, wrapped in fondant bandages, bursting out of a sarcophagus, covered in intricately hand modelled decorations and hieroglyphics. Suzanne takes on a monochrome cake challenge as she's asked to produce a three-foot tall wedding cake, that needs to be stunningly intricate to look at - but decorated in nothing but black.
A high-flying show biz sponge, a Remembrance Day centrepiece, and a cake take on an iconic military vehicle - it's another challenging day for our extreme cake makers. Former army helicopter pilot Rosie faces her most precarious cake build to date, as she attempts to suspend a life-sized edible figure over the heads of the cast of a West End musical. Suzanne must impress with a detailed cake replica of the Lloyd's of London's Lutine Bell - which forms the focal point for a Remembrance Day service. Taking 130 hours to create, it includes 75 sugar poppies that look like they are falling around the cake. And Ben battles to make a cake replica of a tank, good enough to astound tank enthusiast Tommy-Lee on his 18th birthday.
It's full speed ahead for Rosie with a vintage car cake for an 80th birthday party, that must replicate the recipient's beloved Bentley Speed Six, as well as reference Le Mans 24 Hour Car Race, as a nod to the car's winning streak in the 1920s. Suzanne keeps it in the family as she attempts to defy gravity with a cake in the shape of a tube of paint, to celebrate her cousin's new exhibition opening. Christine and Phil tackle a very personal African inspired bake, as Christine's invited to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo with an intricate tiered cake to celebrate her old school's unique involvement in this spectacular event.
Lancashire based cake maker Molly proves 'that's the way to do it' when she makes a one and a half-foot wide replica Punch and Judy cake, complete with stage, striped awning and a full cast of edible characters as a special surprise for a puppeteer. Suzanne creates a towering five tier white on white intricate hand piped wedding cake with an unusual peplum shaped base. Phil and Christine tackle another challenging bake as they create a picture perfect working projector cake, full of personal memories to celebrate one couple's 25th wedding anniversary and joint 50th birthdays.
The gloves are off as Dunstable baker Karisha tackles a boxing themed cake for a charity event, which sees her making two fully edible boxing gloves set in a fondant boxing ring. Molly attempts a deep sea sponge with a giant squid birthday cake for a 10-year-old girl. Phil and Christine make an astonishing solar eclipse wedding cake, that includes a hand painted image of Mount Rushmore and two intertwined willow trees decorated with 4000 hand piped royal icing leaves!
The stakes are high as Essex baker Eloise creates a two-foot high edible slot machine for a surprise 90th birthday party, complete with a personalised message to the birthday girl, flashing lights, and a working coin slot. Karisha takes a huge chance as she attempts to suspend her largest wedding cake to date, all 10 tiers of it, from the ceiling for a spectacular reveal in London in front of 400 guests. Molly puts some muscle behind her cake for a champion body builder, who wants to celebrate the end of what he hopes will be a successful competition season with a cake full of all the things he's missed while training.
Cornish cake makers are go, and Phil and Christine are in their element, tackling a technically challenging bake with multiple moving parts for a Thunderbird 2 cake, with a remote controlled birthday greeting hidden inside! Eloise takes opulence to new heights with a four-foot tall tiered cake that includes a working gin fountain for a glamorous 40th birthday surprise. Suzanne channels the 1980s with a dance floor cake, complete with mirror balls, in honour of a hospice's 30th birthday celebrations.
Lancashire cake maker Rosie battles to stay on track with a replica steam engine cake, with a working track and an intricately decorated engine, it's surrounded by an edible country landscape, complete with a fully functioning model train. Eloise uses nature as her inspiration for a stunning wedding cake, decorating the four foot tall beauty with hundreds of handcrafted edible flowers. And Molly's away with the fairies for a first birthday cake, where she sets herself the challenge of hand sculpting over 40 items, including a fairy's tea party inside the hollowed out tree.
Molly turns to the silver screen to bring a touch of glamour to a 100th birthday celebration. Her creation steals the limelight, with a hand painted 1940s style image of birthday girl Mary staring in her own 100 years movie. Rosie also takes a trip to the movies for her stunning Bollywood dancer cake. Containing 13 kilos of chocolate orange cake and 30 kilos of fondant, the masterpiece takes a whopping six days to make. Eloise heads west with a Canadian tepee wedding cake. Standing three feet high, the cake is covered in hand painted native North American designs.
London cake artist Nastassja gets her groove on with a spectacular exploding champagne bottle birthday cake, made from 20 sponges covered in black buttercream topped with fizzing champagne made from gelatine bubbles. East meets west as Suzanne is asked to make an extravagant pink wedding cake complete with a hand-painted stunning marbled effect. The cultural union of the bride and groom is captured by an English rose and two Indian elephants. Meanwhile, Molly creates a hockey bag cake that sums up the birthday girl's love for hockey and snowboarding and even includes a modelled beagle, all hiding in a deliciously decadent chocolate sponge.
Cake engineering boundaries are pushed as Suzanne's birthday cake for a very special 12-year-old hangs in the balance - only a 25 kilo, two foot wide masterpiece will do! Phil and Christine grapple with a tiered forest of poplar trees. Inspired by the location, their cherry flavoured tiers are held aloft by white fondant tree trunks and adorned in more than 700 handmade petal paste leaves, all topped off with festival lighting. Ben tackles an 'S' shaped Chinese dragon with 200 individually applied fondant scales, spines and whiskers.
Lancashire baker Molly attempts a mammoth build with a 100 kilo life-sized baby elephant that uses 49 kilos of fondant! Phil and Christine capture the nautical charm of a prestigious hotel for its 20th anniversary, including mosaic tiles, sting ray lights - and even the hotel's classic sailing boat. Ben makes a birthday boy see double with his one and half foot high cheeky caricature cake. Sculpted from vanilla cake, it's covered in three kilos of skilfully airbrushed fondant.
Phil and Christine make a stunning three-foot long, life-like swimming turtle cake, that must appear to float over the ocean floor. Weighing in at 25 kg, this clever cantilevered cake is covered in 17 kg of hand sculpted and coloured fondant. Former tattoo artist turned cake maker Ben creates a truly unique wedding cake when he's asked to make a working windmill, to replicate the location where the happy couple get engaged. Meanwhile Karisha tackles a challenging Hula Girl cake that must look just like the birthday girl herself.
In this episode, Karisha aims high with a hot air balloon cake with a suspended basket, complete with fondant teddy bears and two chocolate and red velvet sharing cakes. Meanwhile, Molly makes a staggering Hawaiian themed tropical bar, complete with a three-tiered, Tiki head cake centrepiece, in just two days. With 140 tropical themed sweet treats, including cupcakes, jelly mocktails and coconut shells filled with mousse, the cake also boasts a bar decorated with palm trees, and grass skirts to match the school leavers' party theme. Ben puts all his skills to the test to sculpt a stunning vintage Mini wedding cake from vanilla cake and modelling chocolate, set against a dramatic hand painted Portmeirion fondant backdrop.
This time, Molly makes a hand painted Giraffe Cake from gluten free vanilla sponge, buttercream and modelling chocolate. Ben creates a two-foot-wide scale model motorbike, with sugar paste figures of biking couple Janet and Allan, and their two dogs, Peppa and Benson, for their 20th wedding anniversary. At five-foot tall and weighing in at 18 kg, an African Impact Cake will be Nastassja's tallest commission to date. Formed from 15 layers of cinnamon sponge, the cake includes 54 edible 'mushrooms', which will represent the 54 African states, but it proves to be one of her most stressful bakes to date.
Nastassja makes a three-foot-tall spiral cake from salted caramel, mango and passion fruit sponge, complete with 70 sugar shards circulating from the top and a hand carved corkscrew effect. Meanwhile, Molly bakes for Blackburn Hospital, with a spectacular creation standing two-foot tall, using 25 kilos of fondant icing to make 29 handmade figures of staff and patients. The five-tiered chocolate fudge cake celebrates the NHS's 70th birthday with a colourful cross-section of health care services. Eloise attempts her first animal creation, with a giant dart frog cake with 42 frog cupcakes. Standing almost a foot tall and stretching an impressive two-foot-wide, the amazing creation is wrapped in 6 kilos of hand painted and glazed fondant icing.
Former army helicopter pilot Rosie preps another epic design: a three-foot-long cake to look part dragon, and part boat, decorated in 25 kilos of intricately sculpted fondant and edible paint. Meanwhile in London, fashionista turned cake maker Nastassja, takes on one of her most challenging cakes to date: an intricately decorated time piece cake with two tiers, each with a hollowed out clock face, adorned in roman numerals representing the birthday girl's date of birth. In Dunstable, Karisha faces a tricky balancing act with a floating tiered cake. Built on a massive two-foot wide vanilla cake base, the four-foot high creation gives the illusion of floating tiers, with see-through separators, carefully disguised with over 500 handmade sugar paste flowers. But an accident during delivery tests all her skills to avoid disaster.
Cake makers Phil and Christine must work their magic to create not just a fairy tale cake, but a whole enchanted landscape. Eloise tackles an 18th birthday cake that's just the ticket with a tube train cake. And Michelle marks a medical milestone.
Lancashire-based Molly tackles a cake with some bite with a giant white shark birthday cake, sculpting its realistic features and razor sharp teeth from over 15 kilos of fondant. Eloise's architectural cake for Essex Pride goes up in rainbow coloured smoke. The colourful cake take on Chelmsford's Town Hall is built from a 100-egg vanilla sponge, sandwiched with two kilos of rainbow coloured buttercream. Decorated in six kilos of fondant and florist paste, its intricate details take a whole day to sculpt - all of which hides a special colourful surprise. Nastassja's busy shaping and coating the two spherical sponges for her stunning sea urchin inspired baby shower cake.
Cake artist Michelle works some animal magic with a life-sized Koala cake that looks like the birthday boy himself. Hanging from a eucalyptus tree support, the cake will include 12 layers of vanilla sponge, finished with edible fondant fur and fluffy ears. Molly supersizes her sponges with a fast food cake, complete with a sweet take on a burger and fries, and chicken nuggets sculpted from flapjacks. Nastassja pushes baking boundaries for an elaborate four-foot-high anniversary cake inspired by Roman columns, adorned in over 200 fondant motifs.
Architect turned cake artist Michelle must build big to impress a retiring architect with a cake model of his last project. Made from vanilla sponge sandwiched with buttercream, the exterior is carefully crafted right down to fine details, such as realistic brickwork and tiles. Nastassja goes for gold with a blooming lovely wedding cake. Standing at four foot tall, the salted caramel cake is delicately colour-washed, stencilled with royal icing, and adorned in a swirling mass of hundreds of handmade fondant and wafer paper petals: hanging from florist wire branches. Molly is made up to be making a giant edible makeup box. At 40 kilos, the cake is decorated with leopard print, and sculpted into 60 intricately made cosmetics - including cookie compacts, lipsticks, and even edible eye lashes.
Cake maker Karisha heads to Blenheim Palace to attempt her tallest wedding cake yet - a towering 10-foot crystal masterpiece. Formed from one large vanilla cake at its base, and three fondant covered dummy tiers, it will include thousands of LED-lit crystals and hundreds of fresh flowers. Rosie's in her element with a playful bouncy castle cake. Measuring two-foot wide, this bouncy castle is wrapped in 15 kilos of fondant, and includes 10 gravity defying sugar paste children. And Eloise faces double trouble with a London double-decker bus birthday cake wrapped in red fondant.
Eloise is moving heaven and earth for her latest commission for a keen traveller's 21st birthday. Her suspended globe cake will hang from a three foot-high arc. Meanwhile, Molly dabbles in fiery fondant for a St George's day dragon cake. Her biggest challenge will be replicating the dragon's menacing features and scaly skin. Karisha needs 2000 sugar flowers to adorn her floating garland cake, which is wrapped in 20 kilos of crisp white sugar paste.
Phil and Christine tackle a puzzling bake as they attempt a giant jigsaw, formed by nine interlocking cakes. Suzanne goes off kilter with a wonky castle cake that's fit for a king, including six kilos of stone effect fondant and 10 edible turrets. Former tattoo artist Ben Cullen battles to keep his tractor birthday cake on the road. At nearly two feet wide, the cake even includes two LED headlights.
Cake makers Phil and Christine go wild with a bathing baby hippo to celebrate Penzance's Mazey Day Festival. Stretching three foot-wide, the life-like baby hippo will be dressed in an edible hat and bathing suit. Eloise faces a double challenge with a baby shower cake that must look like a wedding cake. This 10 kilo masterpiece will include a hand sculpted carriage with a sleeping baby - made entirely from icing. Molly makes afternoon tea with a twist. This unique cake includes 20 realistic looking edible items all decorated in hand painted fondant.
Lancashire cake maker Rosie is caught on the hop with a running man birthday cake for a close friend. Standing at more than two feet tall, the cake is sculpted from lemon cake and covered in fondant that's been intricately carved to resemble his facial features. Molly's set herself the mammoth job of creating a 20 inch, four-tiered Gothic wedding cake wrapped in 10 kilos of traditional white fondant icing and 250 fondant feathers to adorn some giant angel wings. Meanwhile, Phil and Christine get green-fingered with an extra special oak tree thank you cake finished off with edible woodland creatures.
A zip wire, a space hopper and ducklings - it's just another day for our Extreme Cake Makers. Karisha's pushed to extremes by an edible assault course with a working zip wire for a 12th birthday. This adventure playground will feature edible tree tops, rope bridges and a working zip line. Molly makes a splash with a stunning three foot-wide floating duckling cake with an edible landscape. Meanwhile, former army helicopter pilot Rosie goes retro with a Space Hopper cake. At two and a half feet tall, this chocolate orange masterpiece includes 20 kilos of fondant icing and is set against a graffiti wall backdrop.
This new series kicks off with some blooming lovely bakes. Former army helicopter pilot Rosie battles to create a trio of teddy bears in time for Armed Forces Day, hand carved from 11 kilos of chocolate cake and covered in 25 kilos of fondant. Nastassja's feathers are ruffled as she produces a flamboyant two and a half foot tall hanging flamingo cake with 500 handmade edible wafer paper feathers. Karisha makes an elegant three tier floral wedding cake made from pistachio, cardamom and rose flavoured sponge. Separating the tiers are chic acrylic boxes filled with 350 hand-crafted edible blooms. The series continues on weekdays.
It's the biggest cake show on earth - Cake International - and Molly's going for gold with an orangutan and tortoise cake; Ben joins the world's best cake artists for a dark take on Snow White, and Christine and Phil live sculpt a six-foot seahorse cake.
Rosie goes regal for a prestigious cake show, with a right royal bulldog seated on a sugar crafted throne. Karisha brings the small screen to a glamorous wedding cake, and Eloise makes dreams come true with a working carousel cake for a first birthday.
London baker Nastassja creates an elephant christening cake she hopes baby Benji will never forget. Phil and Christine's wedding cake reflects an unusual tale of love on the high seas, and Suzanne goes sweet on shoes for a store opening.
Its cake, rattle and roll for Suzanne as she attempts an Elvis-inspired jukebox cake. Michelle battles to make real tea pour from a suspended teapot cake, and Molly aims for a white winter wonderland masterpiece for a 30th birthday party.
Phil and Christine channel the summer of love with a groovy vintage record player cake; Eloise creates a giant edible Prosecco bottle in a garden of flower pops, and Nastassja attempts her first ever blooms for a daisy christening cake.
Lancashire baker Molly makes her spookiest cake to date as a centrepiece for a Halloween party. It's back to school for Rosie and her suffragette-inspired revolving cake, and Eloise creates a black and white masterpiece for a glamorous charity ball.
Lancashire baker Molly creates a classic wedding cake with an agricultural touch. Phil and Christine tackle a towering choux bun tree cake for a gastro gala evening, and it's a fright night for Ben as he creates a scary 16th birthday goblin cake.
Cake diva Rosie lights up a party with her neon fireworks crate cake. Phil and Christine go geometric with a stunning cake for the opening of a prestigious new wedding store, and Molly gets pink and girlie with an eight-tier joint birthday cake.
Sugar artist Michelle proves her imagination knows no bounds as she recreates a flight simulator in cake! Molly hopes to make a rhino fan's fourth birthday wish come true with an animal cake, and Suzanne tackles her biggest floral commission to date.
Baker Eloise creates a seven-tiered fresh fruit pavlova wedding cake. Michelle aims to impress eight-year-old Aidan by putting him on a holographic trampoline birthday cake, and Molly tries to beat her previous charity auction best with a circus-themed cake.
Phil and Christine grapple with flamingo anatomy for an awesome 'Cheshire Cat' inspired 21st birthday cake. Eloise goes the eggs-tra mile to surprise a friend with a giant egg shaped cake, and Molly has just one day to create four realistic cat cakes.
Bake King Ben delivers an edible beer barrel cake that also serves ale. Molly uses her skills as a former make-up artist for a stunning head and shoulders birthday bake, and Karisha adds thousands of hand piped stitches to her latest wedding cake.
Phil and Christine get everyone talking with their innovative bake for a family gala dinner. Ben tackles a surprise birthday cake in the shape of Aston Villa Football Club's stadium, and Eloise digs deep with a tree inspired cake for a family reunion.
Molly surprises a cheese makers' party with an imitation cheese wheel cake. Phil and Christine go galactic with a space travelling camper van anniversary cake, and Suzanne keeps a steady hand as she brings an exotic bird wedding cake to life.
Baker Suzanne proves extreme cakes don't all have to be large as she creates an intricate Jacobean hall cake. Nastassja makes a lavish stained glass inspired wedding cake, and Molly recreates the Las Vegas cityscape, complete with a light show.
Molly must please her harshest critic, her mum, with a keep fit-themed birthday cake. Karisha's under pressure to match the demands of a very design-conscious christening cake recipient, and Michelle attempts a wedding dress cake illusion.
Phil and Christine push cake and engineering boundaries with a steampunk flying machine, with real smoke! Nastassja goes speaker crazy for a DJ's 30th birthday cake, and the pressure's on Suzanne to please cake-loving clients with a dream wedding cake.
Cake boundaries are stretched as Michelle tackles three illuminated jellyfish cakes; Nastassja creates long stemmed roses for a cake with more than 300 petals on it; and Karisha channels her inner princess and superhero for a birthday cake of two halves.
Tattoo artist turned cake maker Ben faces a huge challenge as he creates a caricature of someone playing a guitar in cake form! Molly takes the plunge with a scuba diving dog cake and Nastassja creates a ruffled wedding cake inspired by flamingos.
Eloise aims to bring back happy memories with a 1940s themed 90th birthday cake. Molly attempts an edible coral reef, her most detailed design to date, and Nastassja realises a baker's nightmare when she makes a completely shattered cake.
Penzance bakers Phil and Christine attempt their tallest bake to date with a nine foot sign post cake. Eloise tackles some heavy lifting with an edible kettle bell cake for a gym opening, and Nastassja makes a birthday cake that's out of this world.
Cake meets fashion as Eloise attempts a life-sized, gravity-defying dress cake. Nastassja goes sugar crystal crazy with a towering gemstone birthday cake, and Molly makes a first birthday extra special with a toy box cake full of surprises.
Baker Ben mixes his love of tattoos and baking in a romantic wedding cake. Phil and Christine go overboard with a cake replica of a beloved Cornish ship, and Eloise brings rainbow magic to a Pride Festival with a cake that cascades sweets when cut.
Molly combines three loves: Man United, Chihuahuas and peanut butter in a surprise birthday bake. Nastassja aims to impress a childhood friend with a christening cake, and Phil and Christine create a fruitful masterpiece for a special celebration.
Cake maker Karisha faces her worst nightmare delivering her Palladian mansion room wedding cake. Molly's in her element with a Teddy Bears' Picnic themed children's cake, and there are tears of joy over Suzanne's Midsummer Night's Dream birthday cake.
Lancaster-based Rosie Dummer faces an epic challenge to make an edible scale replica of a planned 110-foot dragon monument for project leader Simon. In Penzance, husband and wife team Phil and Christine Jenson receive a commission that gets their engines revving, as they attempt to make a cake that doubles up as a remote control Mini. Elsewhere, sugarcraft specialist Eloise Durrant reveals her sporty side as she makes an extreme cake, complete with working plasma ball, for her roller derby teammate.
In this episode, it's a family affair as sugarcraft specialist Eloise Durrant attempts to make her daughter a spectacular mermaid birthday cake to celebrate turning nine. Meanwhile, 28-year-old Karisha Pithwa juggles bridesmaid duties with baking a seven-tiered wedding cake, adorned in 15,000 hand piped sugar pearls for her cousin's civil ceremony. In Lancashire, Molly Robbins lets her imagination run wild with a knitting sheep cake for the opening of a yarn shop.
For one lucky birthday boy, 26-year-old Molly Robbins is making a two-foot-tall, dinosaur-covered cake complete with royal icing volcano. Meanwhile, Lancaster-based Rosie Dummer hopes to wow her former Army Airs Corp colleagues with an impressive, six-foot-wide, gravity-defying helicopter cake. As an ex-helicopter pilot herself, Rosie knows that getting every detail right will be vital if she's to impress her military colleagues. Also in this episode is Karisha Pithwa, who is producing a stunning seven-tiered, carousel wedding cake decorated in 11 and a half stone of sugar paste.
In this episode, husband and wife team Christine and Phil Jenson design and build two cakes for Prince Charles and Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall - but will they get the royal seal of approval? In Lancashire, Molly Robbins tackles a larger-than-life chameleon cake to raise money for a local college's new animal unit, and wedding cake designer Karisha Pithwa embarks on a five-tiered Asian wedding cake, complete with working water fountain.
In Lancashire, Molly has received a commission that will push her baking skills to new heights as she attempts to build a life-sized, edible cow cake for the Bakewell Festival - but will it be the best in show? Elsewhere, wedding cake specialist Suzanne Thorpe hopes to impress grooms-to-be Jeffery and Thomas by individually hand sculpting over 200 sugar leaves for her stunning, succulent-themed showstopper. Also in this episode, former fashion designer Nastassja Lusengo creates a two-foot-wide edible art installation for a street art exhibition.
Cake duo Jamie and Joe are tackling their most challenging commission yet: a realistic model of the island of Santorini for a couple's wedding reception. Meanwhile, baker Rosie is creating a three-foot-tall cake shaped like a sitting man. With nine layers of cake for the base alone, delivering a cake of this magnitude will be incredibly challenging. Extreme bakers Pardeep and Renu are also pulling out all the stops to bring their latest creation to life in just three days -- two full-sized swans in the shape of a heart, plus a seven-tier wedding cake.
Londoner Nastassja's latest commission is from a record producer who has ordered a salted caramel cake with waffle pieces - and the trickiest bit of all will be a super-sized fist made from rice cereal and marshmallow that will burst through a drum that's also made from cake! Meanwhile in Saddleworth, Suzanne has been invited to display her cakes at a prestigious wedding fair. With so many potential clients in attendance, she must bake a show stopping cake that will wow them all.
In Lancashire, Molly Robbins is focused on bringing her latest commission to life - a two foot square beach scene complete with jelly sea, crispy marshmallow rocks and dozens of hand carved bathers enjoying the seaside. Elsewhere, Michelle has received a commission for a portrait that's good enough to eat. For a forthcoming birthday party, she must bake a two foot by three foot cake canvas on which she will create an identical portrait of the birthday girl using her icing and edible inks.
To be an extreme cake maker you need bags of skill and even more passion: traits of sugar craft specialist Eloise Durrant. And in Chelmsford, one of Eloise's returning customers has a very different dream - a cake that is edible for both humans and dogs - but can Eloise avoid this tricky task turning into a dog's dinner? Meanwhile, in London Karisha has had one of her most extravagant commissions to date - a towering seven-tier wedding cake that will include 150 handcrafted sugar flowers.
Molly, who's 25, runs her own cake business in Lancashire. Her best friend and cat lover Liz is turning 30 so Molly has come up with the purr-fect birthday surprise - to bake her a cake that will look identical to her two favourite cats. Meanwhile, in West Wales Tracey and her assistant Jess are planning a wedding cake that's personal to the bride and groom who want their cake to display a storyboard of the 12 years that they have been together.
Sugar craft specialist Eloise has received an order with 'wow' written all over it - a four foot tall replica of the Statue of Liberty made entirely of cake - but with over 10 kilos of icing for the famous gown, will this lady be able to stand on her own two feet? Meanwhile, in west Wales, chocolatier Tracey is commissioned to produce a surprise 21st birthday cake that will feature edible, chocolate sculptures of all the important places from the birthday girl's childhood.
The pinnacle of baking is the wedding cake and nobody beats Karisha Pithwa when it comes to designing the most elaborate wedding cakes of all. She's taking inspiration from Bollywood to create a seven-tiered wedding cake for a dance instructor who wants everything just right for her special day. Covered in 1000 fresh and silk flowers, the cake will also feature a hand-piped henna design specially created by the bride and groom. Meanwhile, Nastassja Lusengo is helping her clients celebrate the expansion of their website. They want a four foot tall cake that will celebrate motherhood and have left the design entirely up to Nastassja.
At the heart of any extreme cakes lies a brilliant idea and, when it comes to dreaming up these original designs, 31-year-old Nastassja Lusengo knows the sky's the limit. She's been commissioned by a client to produce a cake for her brother's wedding, inspired by a geode rock and will split open to reveal shimmering sugar crystals carved into the cake's interior. Essex's Eloise Durrant has a totally different challenge on her hands - producing cake for a Hawaiian themed party that includes a fully working cocktail dispensing water feature, four tiers of cocktail flavoured sponge cake and is decorated to look like a Pacific volcano.
When it comes to extreme cake making you have to think outside the box, and for chocolatier Tracey Kindred the more imaginative the better. She's been tasked to produce a gruesome two foot tall wedding cake that pays tribute to the bride and groom's love of all things Gothic. With four tiers, copious amounts of chocolate wrapping and covered in hand painted Halloween themes, creating this cake could be a thing of nightmares... Also, in London Nastassja is producing a cake for an 11-year old to include the colours of the Nigerian flag, a hand-carved, sugar silhouette of the London skyline and a secret compartment for her favourite sweets.
The popularity of baking has left us a nation clamouring to try it ourselves, but for those show-stopping cakes only a few can rise up to the challenge. For one lucky little birthday girl, Extreme Cake Maker Michelle Wibowo is creating a five foot edible Wizard of Oz mural out of Genoese sponge and covered in painted icing and sweets. Meanwhile, Nastassja Lusengo is bringing out the bling - decorating one of her famous red velvet cakes in edible gold leaf while Cornish based bakers Phil and Christine Jensen are creating a four-tier cake inspired by the Queens House in Greenwich, complete with 28 edible tulip decorations.
Designing and baking unique cakes for showbiz parties isn't out of the ordinary for extreme cake makers and in Lancashire Molly Robbins has a very tall order - a celebration cake for a flamboyant customer to help him celebrate 35 years as a drag artist. The cake will be a life-size ball gown, complete with 50 edible peacock feathers and 3000 gold flowers. Elsewhere chocolatier Tracy Kindred has been asked to produce a four-tiered wedding cake covered in over 30 kilos of chocolate and decorated with hand painted, edible scenes from the bride and groom's lives together. Celebration cakes really don't come more extreme than this!
Molly Robbins like to push the boundaries. She's been asked to create a five-tier cake themed around Alice in Wonderland, complete with an edible Cheshire Cat and a pouring teapot.
Molly Robbins embarks on a cake designed to be the same shape - and size - of a Shetland pony, while wedding cake specialist Suzanne Thorpe is tasked with a cake that's over two foot tall.
Michelle is producing a six foot long miniature steam train made entirely out of cake, and Karisha has been commissioned to make a wedding cake with nearly 900 edible iced flowers.
Cornwall-based team Phil and Christine hope to scale new heights with a five foot long lemon and elderflower cake designed to look like a leaping fish using over 17lbs of sugar paste.
No commission is too big for an extreme cake maker, and for sugar craft specialist Eloise Durrant the more challenging the better. But Eloise has a commission like no other, a gravity defying five-tier cake that will hang upside down - just like a chandelier. Will Eloise's elegant design turn into a cake-tastrophe? Elsewhere, Phil and Christine are embarking on one of their biggest and most ambitious cakes to date - a seven foot long cake that follows the theme of animated characters Wallace and Gromit and is estimated it will take over 400 hours to complete... Time to get cracking!
Some of our favourite elite cake makers return for a festive special. As ever, the charismatic group are willing to go to great lengths to make the perfect festive pieces. Watch Christmas dreams come true through these edible masterpieces.
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