Team captain Tanuj, 29 and team member Narayan, 30, defeated rivals from The Royal Airforce Club in London and Soko Patisserie in Solihull in the final, hosted by Liam Charles and Ellie Taylor. For their first challenge, the teams were tasked with creating a lavish afternoon tea display, including finger sandwiches, scones and two different types of pastries, while the final challenge of the series required the bakers to create a banquet celebrating the best of British, with a towering sugar and chocolate showpiece and enough desserts to feed 120 people. Our bakes are not the only ones that have risen to the occasion.
Say hello to Bake Off: The Professional's talented finalists! — British Bake Off (@BritishBakeOff) The InterContinental team impressed by whipping up a feast including a bamboo charcoal brioche with a citrus crab filling for the tea challenge and a lavish Tower Bridge chocolate showpiece for the banquet. After their win, Tanuj, known as TJ, said: “We did it, I can’t believe it but we did it! You can see on my face, the tears and the smiles and I am just so happy to see my mum and dad standing there and being so proud of me. “I was so emotional when they announced our names, it is literally our dream come true!” He added: “The moment we heard our names announced everyone was quite emotional, the whole room was a bit teary.
“Me and Narayan were in tears, but they were happy tears as we had put so much hard work into this. For us, we were a bit exhaus.
