‘The Great British Baking Show’ Season 10 Brings on the Biscuits
If it's Week 2 in the Great British Baking Show tent, it must be time for biscuits.
There’s something very comforting about tradition, and for most of its ten seasons (even the ones America hasn’t seen), the first three weeks of The Great British Baking Show have followed the same pattern: Cakes, Biscuits, Bread. A few early seasons tried to mix it up, notably Season 3 (PBS Season 5) and Season 4 (PBS Season 2). But these staples of British baking are fundamentals every contestant should handle—no use sending someone into Victorian Week if they can’t bake a biscuit first.
This week’s Signature bake demands that our 12 remaining bakers each produce 12 Decorated Chocolate Biscuit Bars, “with little chocolate coats on,” in Noel’s words. That’s a dozen dozen biscuits, enough to supply tea trays for probably the entire filming staff. This kind of biscuit, by the way, is a relatively recent arrival; the idea of biscuit in bar form didn’t gain popularity until just before World War I.
