Great British Baking Show ™
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Floral Viennese Biscuits
Great British Baking Show ™ - Judging
Christiaan (demonstrating a mixing technique): "You call this a rubbing dal in Holland, where you rub the butter together on your work surface with the sugar, so it becomes, like, fluffy. When I do it like this, the texture of the Viennese Biscuits is nicer. Dutch born Christiaan always tries to bake with ingredients from the garden he's planted with his partner, Nick."
Voice-over: "Christiaan's hand mixed tarragon biscuits will be filled with a blueberry and lavender jam."
Prue Leith: "Tarragon and the lavender? I can't say that I'm convinced the flavors will work, but I'm keen to try."
"I'm anticipating that a mouthful of dried lavender is not going to be pleasant!"
"But actually that looks really good. (Tastes). I think you're quite an alchemist, you know, it's really interesting, and it's delicious. And I wasn't expecting that."
"I think the biscuit's a little bit tough, but having said that, they taste amazing."
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About The Great British Baking Show ™
The Great British Bake Off ™ (often abbreviated to Bake Off or GBBO and referred to in the United States as The Great British Baking Show ™) is a streamed British baking competition, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, hoping to impress the judges with their baking skills. One contestant in The Great British Baking Show ™ is eliminated in each round, and the winner is selected from the three contestants who reach the final.
The Great British Baking Show ™ operates on a weekly elimination process to find the best all-around baker from the contestants, who are all amateurs. In each episode, the bakers are given three challenges based on that week's theme: a signature bake, a technical challenge, and a show-stopper. The bakes are assessed by the judges who then choose a "Star Baker" for the week, and a contestant is also eliminated. In the final round, three bakers are left and a winner is chosen from the three.
