Karoline Møller Eike, a 36-year-old event organizer from the Aarhus area, is a contestant in the new season of DR’s baking show Den Store Bagedyst. The season premieres on September 5, 2026.
Avisen Danmark reports that Møller Eike will take part in the coming season of the DR entertainment program. She lives at Møllenborg Slot in Trige Skov with her husband, the Aarhus businessman Simon Møller Eike. He had the building constructed as a copy of the castle from Hergé’s Tintin comics.
Alongside the private castle, she runs Egå Mølle, a mill she bought and restored in 2024. She rents it out as a venue for weddings, confirmations, Christmas events and company parties. Trained as a lawyer, she also leased the mill for about a year in 2013 while studying at Aalborg University.
Møller Eike attended the first casting round in January 2026, together with 200 to 250 other applicants. Each brought a homemade cake, and she arrived with kransekage and filled chocolates. She then reached a final casting with 23 other amateur bakers, before the confirmation call came on a Friday afternoon in late January.
She told Avisen Danmark that she had previously baked only for friends and family, including a unicorn cake for her daughter’s birthday. Her sister had repeatedly urged her to apply for the show. She described the filming as wild, intense and challenging.
Regional outlet Sydnyt.dk published the full contestant line-up on August 16, 2026. It describes her as a self-employed “møllemutter” who converted a former flour mill into an event venue. Lystrupliv.dk reported on August 22 that she has brought new activity to the old mill.
According to Fyens.dk, Timm Vladimir returns as host, with Markus Grigo and Katrine Foged Thomsen as judges. Faroese outlet Dagur.fo notes that ten participants take part in the 15th edition. New episodes appear on DRTV on Saturdays and air Saturday evenings on DR1.
The current Egå Mølle was raised in 1918, after the original mill from 1859 burned down. The mill has been owned by her family for many years, and her older sister ran a catering business there in the late 2000s. Møller Eike said she recorded a deficit in her first accounting year, but has more bookings than the year before.
DR filmed at both Møllenborg Slot and Egå Mølle for her presentation in the program. During production, she hosted the other contestants, the judges, Timm Vladimir and the production team for dinner at the castle. She has not revealed which cakes she bakes on the show.
