Seeing celebrities giving their all between ovens to try to be crowned the great pastry chef is something that gives many moments. If not, tell the viewers of Bake Off: celebrities in the oven, who they have been able to see over the weeks like Rocío Carrasco, Alba Carrillo, Terelu Campos, Yolanda Ramos, Ana Boyer and Julio Iglesias Jr., among others. , have coincided in the same space.
But sometimes laughter and anger have had to be put aside to give way to emotions. And this is what happened in last Monday’s program, where Eva Arguiñano broke down when revealing the testimony of her mother, who was in Guernica (Vizcaya) during the bombing in 1937.
During the second, and last, test of the ninth installment of the baking program, the contestants had to choose an artist or a painting to represent on a cake. And it was with the election of Rocío Carrasco that Karlos Arguiñano’s sister could not hold back her tears.
Rocío Jurado’s daughter decided to take Pablo Picasso’s Guernica as a reference to fight for her permanence for another week. However, little would be expected that this would end up causing an explosion of feelings in the judge. “I was especially moved. My mother was one of the survivors of the bombing of Guernica,” Eva Arguiñano confessed through tears.
Rocío Carrasco’s face and that of all her companions began to change at what the pastry chef was saying. “She always explained to me, when she was older, because when she was young she never wanted to tell, that she was trapped in a hamlet because they were fleeing,” she continued.
“My mother was very lame, not a little, very lame, and so she went down to the hamlet every day to get bread because the woman in the hamlet knew that when she saw her lame she would give her something else. She always gave her a gift bun or something,” he added. And it was on one of her trips to the village when the events occurred.
“While there, a plane they called ‘The Grandfather’, a German plane, came and they took refuge,” he said. As soon as her mother left the shelter, the landscape of her home was very different: “I didn’t know where she was, everything was…”. Given Eva Arguiñano’s inability to articulate a word due to emotion, Paula Vázquez, the presenter of the space, stated that everything was “as the painting represents.”
After this hard story, the judge proceeded to taste and evaluate the cake made by Rocío Carrasco: “I was watching you as you were putting together Guernica and you could see from afar that the cake is the painting. And then, I like the filling because it is a “hope. It’s very delicious.”
