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Twelve homebakers are tested on every aspect of their baking skills.

Twelve homebakers take part in a 'bake off', which will test every aspect of their baking skills as they battle it out to be crowned the Great British Bake Off's Best Amateur Baker.

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The Great British Bake Off: Series 1

Mel Giedroyc

Sue Perkins

Anna Beattie

Richard McKerrow

Mary Berry

Paul Hollywood

The Great British Bake Off: Series 1: Episode 2: Biscuits

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BBC One - The Great British Bake Off, Series 1, Biscuits

The bakers who made it through the first round must make biscuits and teatime treats.

Home bakers battle to be crowned best amateur baker. The eight bakers who made it through the first round are sent to Scone Palace to make biscuits and teatime treats.

The Great British Bake Off sees passionate home bakers take part in a bake-off to test every aspect of their baking skills as they battle to be crowned the Great British Bake Off's best amateur baker. Each week the nationwide tour sees keen bakers put through three challenges in a particular discipline.

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins take the eight passionate home bakers who made it through the first round to Scone Palace near Perth to make biscuits and teatime treats. 

Judging their efforts are renowned baking writer Mary Berry and master baker Paul Hollywood.
Over two days the home bakers are set three increasingly difficult challenges as they bake their signature biscuits, attempt many a baker's nemesis – scones – and finally a tower of petit fours with meringues, choux pastry and macaroons.

As the bakers battle it out, Mel and Sue find out how the digestive became Britain's favourite biscuit; ask what's so Scottish about shortbread and discover why Sir Ranulph Fiennes has the world's most expensive biscuit. 

Which of the eight bakers will wow the judges with their originality and skill? And which two bakers will fail to make it through to the next round?

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Homebakers take part in a 'bake off', which will test every aspect of their baking skills.

Ten homebakers take part in a 'bake off', which will test every aspect of their baking skills as they battle it out to be crowned the Great British Bake Off's Best Amateur Baker.

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