The entire Holland Bakt jury remains British, even with the driest biscuit: ‘A cup of tea’ | Cooking & Eating

A messy cake? A very dark caramel? Leaning walls of your tower or house made of gingerbread? The jury of All of Holland Bakt sees everything, but burns no one. Also in the episode in which England was central, Janny van der Heijden and Robèrt van Beckhoven remained gallant in describing the mistakes.

“The cake is not supposed to look like this”, was the moderate tone of Van Beckhoven about the failed pineapple upside-down cakes of hairdresser Inge. She finished last in the technical round with her dark copies of the reversed mini tarts, in which a slice of pineapple and a cherry has been incorporated. The coconut was all around it instead of just on the side. The best ones were Julian’s, where the jury found lumps in the batter, but the others were something else less good.

The tricky part of the technical round is that the bakers cannot prepare. It was last week chocolate biscuits which drove the candidates to despair. They are always given ingredients and a vague description of what needs to be done. It is completely different with the other two assignments. Take the pie. Truly British and they could go anywhere with it: savory, sweet: as long as it had a roof. Inge was stressed during this assignment, because her roofs came out of the oven very dark. Cheered up, she started again, but she couldn’t finish the new one. Still, according to Van der Heijden, he was ‘really not that bad’. Also because the bottom of her beer filling hadn’t made the savory pie too moist.

The jury was also so nice with the apple cherry pie (more like a pie, Van Beckhoven thought) from Juliaan. The machine builder had to fight against the moisture – nobody wanted a soggy bottom, in other words, a soggy bottom – a lot of juice squeezed out of its filling. “Your dough is very tasty, but I have trouble with your filling,” said Van der Heijden. “A lot of flavor has gone out.” Van Beckhoven seemed to find it a boring result, but described the baking with ‘it could be a little more exciting’.

_{The text continues under the tweet where André van Duin taps the jury on the fingers because they eat the decor.}

With their comments, the jury does justice to the efforts of the bakers, who baked with heart and soul. Is something sloppy? Then ‘it could be given a little more finesse’. And Van Beckhoven and Van der Heijden had something positive to say about all the typically British buildings they made. It is best to eat a bone-dry Zeinab gingerbread with a cup of tea, said Van der Heijden. And Inge’s tower ‘could have been a bit neater’.

If the elaboration might be crap, then it is ‘a super good idea’. The latter said Van Beckhoven about the red telephone booth of the Flemish Tom who just before the end had one wall fall to pieces. By the way, the verdict was good. Van der Heijden: ,,I like the way it looks.” “Is there a piss smell in it too?” presenter André van Duin wanted to know, whereupon everyone laughed smugly. “That is part of it.” Fortunately that was not the case.

There is a large middle bracket among the six candidates. Also such a nice way to say that there are not many toppers. One such winner was illustrator Enzo this week. Although he had made a much too thick vanilla sauce with his pineapple cakes and his caramel was too dark, his cakes looked beautiful according to the jury. He received a lot of praise for his Downtown Abbey gingerbread house. “Very nice and very detailed with all those checks. Well done.” Usually the gingerbread is not very tasty, but this one could also go through with it. His pie—a red postage stamp with the Queen’s profile on it—was already a hit: crispy dough, a fun idea, and the chutney went well with the crust.

Enzo, who probably had an advantage over his British grandmother, was honored to take the master baker of the week pin. “I think she would have been very proud,” Enzo said of her. Loser was the colorful hairdresser Inge. She saw it coming herself, she said. “But it’s good.”