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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: These Bake Off professionals do eccentric to the point of lunacy


Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden, the exuberant judges of Bake Off: The Professionals, set contestants a challenge to create pecan pies in camouflage.

Though it wasn't compulsory to adopt a musical theme, all six baking duos opted to make edible instruments — two guitars, a drumkit, an accordion and a marimba (a sort of xylophone). Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden, (with Liam Charles and Tom Allen), the exuberant judges of Bake Off: The Professionals, set contestants a challenge to create pecan pies in camouflage Bake Off: The Professionals is so notorious for the harshness of its judging that one cake-maker, Gerol from the RAF Club on London's Piccadilly, was in tears of terror as she brought her tartes aux fraises to be inspected.

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