Archive note: This was our 2019 announcement that Reshmi Bennett would compete on Bake Off: The Professionals. The broadcast dates below are historical, not current scheduling information.
In 2019 I finally got to share a secret I had been sitting on for months: I had been selected to compete on Bake Off: The Professionals.
As a professional baker I was never eligible for the amateur Great British Bake Off, but the professional series was a very different proposition: teams of pastry chefs working under intense time pressure on technical patisserie and showpieces.
I had not expected to get through the application and audition stages. There were a great many test batches, a heroic quantity of egg white and ground almonds, and a set of panda macarons I obsessed over for the audition. Eventually our team was selected as one of the twelve competing in the 2019 series.
The preparation period was hard on the bakery and on family life, particularly with a very young child at home, but it became one of those chapters of the Anges de Sucre story that is impossible to separate from everything that came afterwards.
The original broadcast began on 30 April 2019 on Channel 4. For what happened once the cameras started rolling, read our first-episode diary.
More press, television and earlier chapters are collected in our Brand History.
Lots of love,
Reshmi xoxo
I adore this programme and I love following your world – what a dreamy combination!! Bring on Tuesday!! And good luck! 🍀
OMG!!! Congrats congrats congrats! good luck! buena suerte !
You will be absolutely brilliant. Your bubbly personality and originality will shine through. Will be rooting for you xx
Eek so super excited for you, can’t wait to watch!! Rooting for you all the way Reshmi!! 🙌🏻