Extreme Chocolate Makers - Season 1

In this episode, expectations are high as Ashley McCarthy aims to bring edible glamour to a charity fundraising event. His rotating chocolate glitter ball features a delicious pair of dancers and is made from over 15 kilos of chocolate. How much will his epic creation raise when it's auctioned off for the charity? Meanwhile, reality is distorted as Mark Tilling takes us back in time with a vintage themed chocolate masterpiece featuring a heritage model phone and a classic puzzle from the 1980s. In Cornwall, Nicky Grant is challenged to defy gravity with an elevated chocolate mannequin for the front of a wedding shop. Adorned with chocolate rose petals and measuring over two feet tall on a chocolate stand, this edible work of art is a balancing act that needs to impress brides to be.

In this episode, architectural specialist Evelyn Day constructs a metre-high white chocolate fairy castle for a girl's fourth birthday party. She has her work cut out shaping six towers alongside doors, windows, turrets and flags, a task that's all the more difficult with white chocolate as it's softer than dark or milk, and Evelyn's using a massive eight kilos of the stuff! In Yorkshire, Ashley McCarthy makes a detailed four-poster chocolate bed complete with six mattresses, floral curtains and a sheep, commissioned by a mattress company for the Furniture Makers' Charity Ball In Basingstoke, Laura Miller is asked to make something chocolate for a mental health awareness event. She comes up with a chocolate head with thoughts expressed in chocolate speech bubbles. Then she cuts out a section of the pristine-looking head, as she attempts the tricky challenge of recreating a section of brain in chocolate.

In this episode, a cocktail bar commissions award-winning chocolate maker Mark Tilling to produce chocolate coconut cups that cocktails can be served in. In Yorkshire Ashley McCarthy has a complex birthday commission to produce a chocolate record player, complete with a revolving turntable. And Evelyn Day creates a chocolate sculpture for the Wedding Awards.

Self-taught chocolatier Ashley McCarthy has a prestigious commission for the Lord Mayor of York. He starts off making chocolate replicas of some of York's most iconic buildings but, halfway through, he decides to supersize his already tricky commission. In contrast, the challenge for realism expert Sarah Hardy is extreme in miniature. She has her work cut out when an entomologist commissions her to make a small chocolate version of a rare dung beetle. And former UK Master Mark Tilling creates a huge chocolate sensory garden for a Maidenhead hospice that's close to his heart.

In this episode, Laura Miller creates a two-foot tall mermaid, complete with chocolate tentacles and a tattooed torso, for a tattoo parlour's first birthday party. In London, husband and wife team Ivan and Harika Le Jeune battle with their biggest build to date, a four-foot replica of Big Ben, made from nearly 50 kilos of chocolate and featuring 60 mini Big Bens. And in Cornwall, chocolatier Nicky Grant makes a giant welcome sign for a prestigious wedding industry event. Her statement piece will be a whopping two and a half feet tall and three feet wide, adorned with edible chocolate flowers, realistic pears and hand carved antlers.

Today, chocolatier to the stars, Aggy Dadan, creates a very special birthday surprise for TV presenter and designer Laurence Llewellyn Bowen and former UK Chocolate Master Mark Tilling is commissioned by a five-star hotel in York to make a chocolate centrepiece for the opening of their brand new cookery school. The result is a four-foot, smoke-blowing history of chocolate.

Today, former pastry chef turned chocolatier Paul Wayne Gregory battles against the clock to create a chocolate display for a record company's 40th birthday party. Meanwhile in north Wales, Emma Baravelli faces the challenges of working in miniature to create an ornate dressing table for a deeply romantic Valentine's gift.

Today, it's all about the physics of chocolate in north Wales as Emma and Mark Baravelli attempt to create a chocolate replica of the Rutherford atomic model for the Nuclear Awards. When your clients are all experts in the field, the pressure is on to make sure everything's perfect. And that's also the case for Basingstoke's Laura Miller who has a special commission for a 90th birthday party. Her client is a lifelong friend who wants an allotment-themed surprise for her grandad.

There's a barrel of laughs in Scotland as Ruth Hinks pairs chocolate and beer for a new bar while Cornwall-based graphic designer turned chocolatier Nicky Grant creates a three-tiered chocolate extravaganza, complete with ruffles, flowers and hearts, for a surprise wedding gift.

The pressure is on as Cirencester-based Aggy Dadan takes on a double commission from the Croatian Embassy - a two-foot chocolate lady and a map of Croatia weighing in at over 14 kilos. With time limited to make everything before the embassy's party, can Aggy get all the details spot on and impress the Croatian ambassador himself? Meanwhile pastry chef turned chocolatier Paul Wayne Gregory is asked to cast a Chelsea pensioner's face in chocolate.