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Candidates need to bear in mind that when entering the overall winner will be automatically selected to be part of the next official Pastry Team which will represent the UK at the next Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, (Pastry World Cup), in Lyon in 2017.
Each candidate will have to choose a theme and will be asked to prepare within 6 hours, the choices are:
CARNIVAL & FAIRGROUND
or
FAIRYTALE
And from this make either:
