For 21 year old Madeleine O' Shea, her time is spent juggling her studies at the London Institute of Zoology, managing her hole-in-the-wall bakery in Mayfair and feeding her elderly and rotund cat Mr Tibbles. Between keeping the bakery afloat and researching the frogs of the Amazonian Basin (while constantly butting heads with her lab partner) Madeleine is perfectly happy to ignore the glitzy London nightlife surrounding her, and she definitely doesn't want anything to do with the Hollywood heartthrob who keeps stumbling into her store. But when her life starts to spin out of control and her problems accumulate by the dozen, she quickly starts to realise that you can't have your cake eat it too...

As Clementine Bell has learned, running a successful NYC patisserie is tougher than it looks. Even with training in classical French baking from the best school in the world, getting people to walk through the doors to the Clementhyme Bakery proves much more difficult than drawing millions of viewers to her sensational baking vlogs. With the overdue rent piling up, Clementine's mother has the idea to enter her into a televised baking competition with a staggering $250,000 cash prize. Clementine isn't thrilled with the idea of competing on national television, that is until the producers let slip that her infuriatingly talented pastry school classmate and rival has been invited to participate. Sequestered on set in a partially renovated chateau in southern France, all of Clementine's knowledge of pastry is put to the test, but can this pastry purist outlast her competition to save her bakery in an arena where the culinary arts have become a spectator sport?