Extreme Cake Makers - Season 3

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.