GBBO Season 13 Biscuit Week-Inspired Recipes

Prue didn’t just want a simple checkerboard for this week’s Signature, but if you’ve never made this type of slice-and-bake biscuit, this simple pattern is a great place to start. Once you’ve got this down, thenyou can graduate to sailboats, the Hagia Sophia mosque, cats, Noel’s face, and more.

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Shortbread cookies are one of the most popular biscuits on Bake Off because they’re extremely versatile: you can make them in different flavors or shapes, and decorate them in a variety of ways. You could even take a risk and use it to build an entire showstopper instead of everyone’s go-to, gingerbread.

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Macarons can seem intimidating, but once you’ve got the basic recipe down, you can have fun with your colors and fillings, turning them into tomatoes or flowers like Nadia and Lesley did to fill their showstoppers.

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You could make a gingerbread showstopper like everyone else, OR you could stand out with this chocolate shortbread. C’mon, you know you want to take the risk!

Get the Chocolate Shortbread recipe.

Great biscuits need great fillings, and lemon curd is a classic. Tom filled some of his Showstopper’s mementos with it, and got a Hollywood Handshake, after all!

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This week, bakers were tasked with filling biscuit time capsules with mementos. I’ve been thinking quite a lot lately about the simple bliss of being a kid with a big bowl of cereal and a block of Saturday morning cartoons to look forward to. This homemade take on Cookie Crisp would be just the thing to fill my showstopper with.

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The great thing about lace cookies is that they look and taste impressive, but don’t need any extra bells and whistles like food coloring or fillings. When your planned Biscuit Week bakes aren’t going your way, these would make for a great backup plan.

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I’d never heard of a chocolate hobnob before this week, but apparently they’re quite tricky to make, as evidenced by the highs and lows of this week’s Technical Challenge. Do yourself a favor and make millionaire’s shortbread instead. It’s got a lot of the same flavors, but without all that impossible feathering.

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Without decoration, a cookie can look like, well…let’s just say Aaron’s scroll this week looked a little bit more like something NSFN (not safe for Netflix). Make sure you’ve got a good royal icing recipe ready to go, and you can turn even simple round biscuits into something incredible, like Jasmine’s cookie mementos.

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When it comes to a Technical Challenge, there’s really no room for error, so making sure you’re confident in the basics, like caramel or frosting, is important. The caramel layer in this week’s Chocolate Hobnobs tripped up a number of bakers, so to make sure that’s not me, I’m practicing with Delish’s foolproof recipe.

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If you were as impressed with the stained glass windows on Jessika’s showstopper as I was, you’re going to love this easy shortcut. Instead of isomalt, these use Jolly Ranchers!

Get the Stained Glass Cookies recipe.

Homemade jam is SO easy to make, and it’s a great way to make your bakes unique. This strawberry one is on the simple side, but the instructions should work for nearly any fruit or flavorings, so have fun with it!

Get the Homemade Strawberry Jam recipe.