Biscuits
Amateur baking challenge. With cake week under their belts, the 11 remaining bakers must now prove themselves with biscuits. The signature challenge is biscotti.
With cake week under their belts, the 11 remaining bakers must now prove themselves with biscuits.
The signature challenge is to create 24 biscotti. Twice baked, these Italian specialities have to be crammed with flavour and have a crisp crunch. It's a delicate balance between underbaked and bendy, or overbaked and rock hard.
Paul chooses the technical challenge, arlettes, a labour-intensive reverse puff pastry biscuit from south west France. Wafer-thin, flaky and swirled with cinnamon, delicious to eat but devilishly difficult to make.
And finally, the show-stopper is to create and build an edible biscuit box filled with 36 biscuits of a different flavour.
Judges Mary and Paul want to see the bakers exercise their creative muscles with clever construction and beautiful decoration, while not forgetting that flavour is king. The pressure is on, and the clock is ticking. Who will claim Star Baker, and who will be leaving the Bake Off tent?
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Find recipes for Paul's Arlettes and the baker's showstoppers on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Food website.
Clips
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"Get in!"
Duration: 01:39
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The art of the biscuit box
Duration: 01:24
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"It's a wee bit on the complicated side for a biscuit"
Duration: 01:41
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Trailer: The Great British Bake Off Episode 2
Duration: 00:20
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Mel Giedroyc |
Presenter | Sue Perkins |
Judge | Mary Berry |
Judge | Paul Hollywood |
Executive Producer | Anna Beattie |
Series Producer | Paolo Proto |
Production Company | Love Productions |
Broadcasts
- Wed 12 Aug 2015 20:00
- Sun 16 Aug 2015 16:00
- Tue 25 Aug 2015 02:15
- Tue 8 Dec 2015 14:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Wales
- Tue 8 Dec 2015 15:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two Wales
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