Pastry Chef Attempts To Make a Gourmet Twinkie | Bon Appetit

Bon Appetit's Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz attempts to make a gourmet Twinkie without the hard-to-pronounce chemical ingredients. The first test is Genoise cake, an Italian sponge cake. For the creamy filling, Claire uses 7 minute frosting. The second test is yellow cake and buttercream filling. Next comes chiffon cake, a light cake that uses vegetable oil. Finally, with some help from Test Kitchen Manager Brad Leone, Claire decides to "Frankenstein" the recipe.





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[daniellethurman]

"this is harder than I though it was going to be" is like foreshadowing this whole series

[xarxes]

Episode 1 : 11 mins of Claire making something


Episode 28: 45 mins of the stages of grief

[skaeity]

I like how everyone looks like a chef and then Brad is this giant fisherman lol

[clarewhite]

Gourmet Makes then: this food is garbage, make it gourmet

Gourmet Makes now: this junk food is magical perfection, good luck making something half as good

[kaylapalmer]

Sometimes I wonder, in the most affectionate way possible, who let Brad in this kitchen 😂 just to clarify, he is intelligent and talented, but kind of comes off as a guy that wandered in and they couldn't get rid of him and then he just grew on everyone like a cat.

[andreafaithchong]

omg gaby went from assistant to manager you go gurl

[faredsharudden]

Who is here again after nearly 3 years after you have watched everything in Bon Appetit videos and you coming back here again because of the quarantine and you really have nothing to do other than eating ramen literally at 4 am on your bed and watching Claire being just... uhm Claire? Lolololol.

[fangirlmodeee]

Claire in 2017: “This is harder than I thought it was going to be..”

Claire in 2019: if only you knew..if only..

[carli]

I love how Brad is the only person in the kitchen who isn't a food snob.

[JimFortune]

Claire:"That's such a good idea, Judy."
Judy:"Sorry."

[Jojo-ydke]

When she threw out all those twinkies a spark inside me died

[prittyyyy]

I love this, it’s like watching a pilot of your favorite tv series

[MaryBliss]

You know you're not watching buzzfeed when they actually give credit to the people in the video...👍👍👍

[amanmo]

This is the first video I've watched where Claire isn't tempering chocolate and/or sick

[tylerbrown]

Comments section:

"Tasty ripped this off"

"Why u throw away all those Twinkies?"

"I don't even cook, I'm just here for the problemsolving"

"Brad"

[meermeeronthewall]

I'm so glad they stopped throwing away all the food they buy at the beginning. They've got more than 200 employees. I'm sure those Twinkies would have been eaten.

[toomanyfrogs]

Is no one gonna talk about how chill and nice this is? Like I know it's her job but she never got super angry or discouraged. Also there wasn't really any annoying music for the most part, and the times there were it was fitting. Not to mention that the way it showed her trials and errors in a really good amount of time was really cool. This is an idea buzzfeed would have but it's actually good quality.

[John-okmb]

I died a little bit inside when she threw out all those Twinkies

[davidnguyen]

It hurts seeing her throw away that mountain of twinkies

[christianknab]

from 11 minutes to 46... 🤪 I mean I'm not complaining... more Claire!