Great British Bake Off episode 2 2014 - Biscuits Week: With cake week done, the remaining bakers must now prove themselves with biscuits. For the signature challenge, the bakers are given two hours to bake 24 identical biscotti of any shape, flavour or size. In the technical challenge, they are required to make eight arlettes, which are high-end light delicate cinnamon-flavoured biscuits, in two and a half hours. For the Showstopper, they must face the challenge of making 36 biscuits,…

Great British Bake Off episode 1 2014 - Cake Week: Follow 12 amateur bakers as they enter the competition tent for their first hurdle: cake. The Signature Bake requires a Swiss roll, a seemingly simple task fraught with risks. For the Technical Bake, bakers must duplicate Mary Berry’s classic cherry cake, to Berry’s exacting standard. In the Showstopper Bake, the competitors tackle classic British cakes — in perfect miniature — 36 of them.     Culinary competition in which amateur…