What Week Is Next On The Great British Baking Show? The Caramel Week Quarterfinal, With Treacle Tarts, Millionaire Shortbread And Nougatine Sculptures, Lands On Netflix Friday, November 13

Caramel Week is the quarterfinal of The Great British Baking Show’s new season. Channel 4, which airs the show in Britain as The Great British Bake Off, lists Series 17 Episode 8 as “Caramel Week” and sets out the menu in one line: treacle tarts, millionaire shortbread and nougatine sculpture showpieces. It airs in the UK on Tuesday, November 10.

In the US, Netflix carries the series as The Great British Baking Show, Collection 14, and Netflix’s Tudum says new episodes arrive every Friday until the finale. That puts Caramel Week on Netflix on Friday, November 13.

What the bakers make

Channel 4’s tease for the episode: “Who oozes caramel confidence, and who’ll crack under pressure?” All three bakes lean on cooked sugar.

• Treacle tart. A British classic: a buttery pie crust (shortcrust, in British baking) holding a thick filling of golden syrup, a light cane-sugar syrup, plus breadcrumbs and lemon.
• Millionaire shortbread. Three layers: a shortbread base, a layer of caramel and a top of chocolate. It also goes by caramel shortbread or caramel slice. Think of it as a homemade Twix bar.
• Nougatine sculptures. Nougatine is sliced almonds set in clear caramel. Channel 4 calls this round “sculpture showpieces.”

This is the series with a new judge. Channel 4’s series listing describes “Twelve new bakers and a brand-new judge,” with Nigella Lawson joining Paul Hollywood, Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond.

Caramel Week itself is not new. Channel 4 lists it in 2017, 2021 and 2024, and called the 2017 episode the show’s first.

If you are catching up, our Pastry Week preview covers Episode 6, and our Free-From Week recap covers Episode 7, with its results kept below a spoiler warning.

Five caramel and shortbread cookies to bake while you watch

These are our own cookies on the same ideas, starting with the two closest to millionaire shortbread’s stack of cookie, caramel and chocolate.

• Twix Cookies: a butter and brown sugar cookie pressed flat before baking, then topped with melted caramel candies and finished with a round of melted milk chocolate.
• Twix Thumbprint Cookies: a buttery dough pressed with the handle of a wooden spoon, the wells filled with caramels melted into heavy cream, and a drizzle of milk chocolate on top.
• Irresistible Shortbread Cookies: the plain base. Butter, powdered sugar, vanilla, flour and salt, rolled half an inch thick and cut into shapes.
• Pecan Shortbread Cookies: the same buttery idea with a cup of finely chopped pecans worked into the dough, rolled thinner and cut out.
• Salted Caramel Chocolate Chunk Cookies: a soft, chewy brown sugar dough with quartered caramel candies and chocolate chunks folded in, sprinkled with a little sea salt.