Heel Holland Bakt-talk #6
It’s that time again: every Sunday, we get to watch fumbling and flourishing home bakers on Heel Holland Bakt. From over-the-top signature challenges to the complicated technical challenge, I’m glued to the screen from the very first minute. What exactly goes through my head during an episode like that? I write it all down for you every week.
Episode six already, and only six bakers remain out of the 500. This week’s theme is winter sports. I immediately think of raclette, but that isn’t sweet. I’m very curious to see what they have in store for us. Cas’s reindeer sweater is at least a very good start. The holidays have long since passed, but not for Cas. Love him.
Awkward giggling
For the signature challenge, the bakers have to make a Mont Blanc cake. I’ve genuinely never heard of it, but apparently it has something to do with chestnuts? Not my favourite flavour either, so I understand why the bakers are struggling with this one. Although Hanneke is being incredibly dramatic—can she ever stop with that awkward giggling? As far as I’m concerned, she can really go.
Cas has brought homemade mocha extract. Seriously, why has he never become Star Baker? He’s such a boss. That little man on his cake too, lying in the snow. This is just amazing!? Anna’s cake is beautiful too; she can win as far as I’m concerned. By the way, can someone tell me what the judges mean by the word ‘woolly’ every single time?
Erotic dome pastries
For the technical challenge, the bakers have to make six perfectly smooth mirror-glazed dome pastries. Do they have to bake something on the outside of the mould again, and is everyone getting it wrong again? I’m getting déjà vu from a few episodes ago. It’s incredibly satisfying to watch everyone pour that glaze over those little domes.
Hanneke is taking that satisfaction very seriously. Last time she made a cake with vaginas on it, and now she’s made six perky breasts. An ‘erotic dome pastry’, as Robert puts it so beautifully. One minute you’ve never heard the word ‘dome pastry’, and the next you hear it twenty times in a minute. Can we move on to the next challenge?
Pure white
Oh, a pure white winter cake. Hanneke is bound to struggle with that. What a wonderful challenge; all that light batter and that snow-white meringue look absolutely beautiful. Until we get to Vincent’s cake. Poor boy, what a disaster. Luckily, he has to leave too—I don’t know whether I could have handled watching him bumble around for another week. I do feel for him, though; my kitchen is always a complete mess when I’m cooking too. I would be an absolute disaster on this programme. Luckily, I’m safe on the sofa. See you next week!
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