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«Last year I watched “Bake Off Italia – Dolci in the Oven” from the sofa, today I’m the winner: It’s the price of my life, my longing. One finish line and one descent.” Davide Merigo, 38 years oldborn in Gardone Riviera but residing in Puegnagno del Garda, last night officially won (the program is being taped) the tenth edition of the pastry show – by the BBC, produced by Banijay Italia for Warner Bros. Discovery and hosted by Benedetta Parodi – he has become the best amateur pastry chef in Italy that he dreamed of. And with the 50 kg of chocolate he won and the enrollment in a professional course at a gastronomic school, he can fulfill his dream of developing from a freelance architect with studios first in Gardone Riviera and now in Puegnagno to a master confectioner, yes – as he emphasizes on the phone – to the “architect of taste”.
In the last broadcast last night (and repeat tomorrow, Sunday at 2.05pm) in real time (Sky channel 160 and digital terrestrial channel 31) and streaming on Discovery+, he went up against three finalists. A poker skimmed off by the first 16 contestants to start televised in September. Cheering in the studio, eliminated with colleagues in 14 episodes, also the 61-year-old Giambattista Bertocchian extrovert carpenter from Castelcovati.
The ultimate proof
Davide passed the first of the two KO tests, which consisted of making the “world’s most complicated cake”, the Kek Lpais, colorful and with a complex layered geometry typical of Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo). He then managed to replicate that effectively anniversary cake created in 2000 by well-known Bolognese pastry chef Gino Fabbri, who came to the studio to present it. And finally, in the last duel with the Umbrian Chiara, he convinced with Ernst Knam, Damiano Carrara and Tommaso Foglia sweet triptych who with ingenuity met the judges’ basic requirements: a cake (hers, with creamy cassis); a dessert platter (hers, with whiskey flavors) and a single portion of modern cakes (hers, with caramel, tangerine, calamansi and currants).
The trophy, which represents a cake mold and a cake made of crystal, went to the deeply moved Merigo, who in Salò is embraced by his fiancee Annalisa, a psychotherapist who always works on Lake Garda. “I joined “Bake Off Italia” as an architect and am leaving as … an architect of taste,” said the winner happily. Who is now making a sweet creation in the broadest sense: a house (and future bed & breakfast with pastry shop) to share with Annalisa in Puegnago.
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