• M6 is launching, this Monday in access, 

    My cake is the best of France,

    a French creation embodied by Cyril Lignac and four other gastronomic experts.

  • The particularity of the program lies in its format, closer to the telecrochet than to the pastry competition.

  • "It gives moments very close, spontaneous, sometimes funny, sometimes moving", lists Cyril Lignac.

Long queues, a casting that takes place in several regions of the country, candidates who wait for long minutes with the fear of facing a jury of experts… This is not the description auditions of the late

Nouvelle Star

but of the new program launched by M6 this Monday at 6.35 pm: 

My cake is the best in France

.

Here, the participants do not come to cover yet another Ed Sheeran song on guitar, but present themselves with what they consider to be the most beautiful of pastries.

To do this, they will have to face the uncompromising palace of Cyril Lignac, former

Top Chef

Merouan Bounekraf, culinary columnist Louise Petitrenaud, hosts Pépée le Mat and Luana Belmondo.

Saucepan: Sound, voice, musical instrument wrong or not very melodious

" What's your name ? How old are you ? What do you do in life ? »Each time a new pastry is presented, the questions are the same. This casting phase across the country and in front of the cameras plunges the public directly into the world of telecrochet, which was the initial desire of the production. The idea came to him thanks to the auditions which precede the filming of his other cooking shows and which are never exploited on television. "We said to ourselves that we had great material but which is frustrating because we often throw it away," explains producer Matthieu Jean-Toscani during a press videoconference.

And as in all programs of the genre, there are moments of ecstasy but also a few misses, "a bit like in the telecrochets, where you have casseroles and lyrical singers", slips Pierre-Guillaume Ledan, director of programs flow of M6.

"People were able to drive two or three hours to bring their cake so it also gives a little funny scenes", adds Matthieu Jean-Toscani.

"TV close to people"

Getting to the candidates was an idea of ​​Cyril Lignac himself even before the first confinement and the success of

Tous en cuisine

.

The chef who has been working for fifteen years on M6 wanted to do "TV close to people" to provide them with advice and tips.

“What drives me today, and what I find interesting in the programs we do, is to meet people,” he says.

It gives you hyper-close, spontaneous moments, sometimes funny, sometimes moving.

The juror Louise Petitrenaud, too, defends "a vision of more accessible pastry", arguing that the proposals range from well-mastered classic cakes to more ambitious desserts.

Sports tastings (especially for the liver)

In order to avoid indigestion, the members of the jury tasted eight desserts per day of shooting. Gourmets that we are, we could say that it is not much, but obviously, the experience has left its mark on some. "I was absolutely not prepared for that, neither my palate, nor my liver," says Luana Belmondo. Eating eight cakes every day is not easy because you have a lot of sugar. We have to go into the cake, understand, so we resume to have absolutely the taste. "

The culinary host (and beautiful daughter of Jean-Paul), unaccustomed to a series of tastings, had to seek the advice of a professional pastry program, Cyril Lignac. The chef recommended that he eat salty food between takes "to cleanse the palate a little and restore that desire to eat cakes," he says. The perfect plan? The rillette sandwich, ideal to avoid reaching saturation too quickly.

Fortunately for the jurors, the following steps did not call for the same speed of tasting.

After the casting which took place in Mâcon, Saint-Émilion, Avignon, Nancy, Douai, Angers and Paris, the candidates will face each other in a duel on an imposed theme which generally surfs on the trends that can be found on social media right now, like emoji or flag cakes.

Finally, since the one who will go to the end of the course will see his cake marketed in the brands of Jean-François Feuillette, only the latter will elect the best cake in France during the last week of competition.

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