THE BEST PASTRY 2021. The Best Pastry Chef is a culinary competition broadcast on M6 and presented by Marie Portolano.
[Mis à jour le 17 décembre 2021 à 16h14] The Best Pastry Chef is a culinary program broadcast on M6 since November 26, 2012. During this pastry competition, amateur candidates must take up the culinary challenges launched by Cyril Lignac and Mercotte, the two jurors, until reaching the final. Each year the winner wins the edition of his own cookbook. The Best Pastry Chef is currently presented by Marie portolano, after having been presented in the past by Julia Vignali (2017-2020) and Faustine Bollaert (2012-2017).
Since the creation of the French program, there have been several variations of the program presented on M6: Le Meilleur Pâtissier – celebrity special, which sees stars participating in the competition, but also Le Meilleur Pâtissier – The professionals which is this time a competition professional pastry chefs. The last season of the show was broadcast at the end of 2020. It was Elodie, a pizzeria manager from Mulhouse, who won this ninth season.
The Best Pastry Chef is broadcast on M6 from early fall. The tenth season is no exception to this rule: it is from October 7, 2021 from 9:05 pm that viewers will be able to find the sixth channel’s sweets competition. Please note, however, the program is no longer broadcast on Wednesdays, but on Thursdays now.
In 2021, 20 candidates compete in The Best Pastry Chef to win, every week, the blue apron and avoid elimination. The participants of the tenth season of the M6 show are between 16 and 67 years old. As is usually the case, the candidates come from all over France, but some also from Switzerland or Belgium. Only 14 of them are qualified, at the end of the first program, to continue the competition.
In 2020, Elodie was crowned winner of the Best pastry chef against Margaux and Bouchra. Coming from Mulhouse, the candidate, manager of her own pizzeria, stood out throughout season 9 by concocting cakes with very original flavors. As a reminder, at the end of the program, the winner leaves with the right to publish a cookbook.
As always, M6 broadcasts are available in replay on the 6play.fr site, which allows them to find the programs broadcast on the channel. To take advantage of this functionality, you can use your TV box in the Replay section or go to the website, connect with a Facebook or Google account or register by email and watch the catalog of programs available in replay.
It’s hard not to be tempted to taste the creations of the Best Pastry Chef candidates. And if you have the soul of a pastry chef, it may even make you want to go behind the stove! As a reminder, each winner of the M6 show publishes his own cookbook made during the show. But some recipes can also be discovered online: the site KitchenAZ offers recipes from previous seasons from the best pastry chef, while Mercotte publishes on its website advice on how to perform the famous technical test that makes the participants of the program tremble every week.