Extreme Cake Makers

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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!

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!