'The Great British Baking Show' Season 7 Episode 2 Recap: Biscuit Week

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 Series 3 (PBS Season 5/Netflix Baking Show: The Beginnings) and Series 4 (Season 2). But these staples of British baking are the fundamentals every contestant should be able to handle — no use in sending someone into Victorian Week if they can't bake a biscuit first.

This week's Signature bake demands our 12 remaining bakers each produce 12 Decorated Chocolate Biscuit Bars, "with little chocolate coats on," in the words of Noel. 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 in history, the idea of biscuit in bar format didn't gain popularity until just before World War I.