Walnut baklava shares the kitchen with The Forest House's farm chores
The silent cooking vlog follows hand-kneaded pastry, newly hatched chicks and a wood-fired brick oven.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Forest Baklava from Scratch: Satisfying Wood-Fired Pastry with Animals Around. ASMR
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- 0:23The man lights wood inside the brick oven beside the forest homestead.
- 3:35The woman kneads flour, egg yolks, baking powder and sour cream into dough.
- 5:55Newly hatched chicks move from the nesting area into a warm indoor crate.
- 7:40Crushed walnuts are combined with sugar, melted butter and spices for the filling.
- 14:51Paper-thin pastry sheets are layered on a baking sheet with the walnut filling.
- 18:20The assembled pastry is cut into diamonds, brushed with egg wash and individually decorated.
Flour-sifting indoors, walnut-cracking beside it, and animals to feed outside: The Forest House's sole new upload makes baking part of the homestead's working day rather than a break from it.
"Forest Baklava from Scratch: Satisfying Wood-Fired Pastry with Animals Around. ASMR" has drawn about 53,000 views. A woman in a white headscarf kneads dough with egg yolks and sour cream, while a man cracks walnuts and gets the brick oven fire going. There is no spoken dialogue. The preparation has room to breathe, with thin pastry sheets eventually layered with spiced walnut filling and cut into diamonds.
Between kitchen stages, the man moves newly hatched chicks into a warm indoor crate and helps baby goats suckle. One viewer brings a useful comparison to the table, describing Tunisian baklava made with almonds and cut into smaller pieces. It is a reminder of how many different pastries can share that name.
The older apple-juice and honey-baked-apple upload is attracting the most daily views right now, with the baklava next and the catch-and-cook fish outing also contributing. Across the channel, subscribers grew by about a thousand over the week, although daily viewing is currently well below its usual level.
Among nearby-sized outdoors and homesteading channels, The Forest House had the largest weekly views gain in this group. Forest Town and HEY WANDERER are both seeing above-usual daily viewing, while Foxes Afloat is quieter. For The Forest House, the week's new addition is a patient kitchen project with farm care folded into every pause.
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What viewers say
Your baklava looks lovely—I’m sure it’s delicious❤—but it’s different from the baklava we have in Tunisia; ours is made with almonds and the individual pieces are smaller. 😅
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The videos drawing views on The Forest House right now
- Channel
- The Forest House
- Subscribers
- 146,000 ▲ 1,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 375,854
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- November 7, 2026
- Video views so far
- 53,029
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What does the baker add to the dough in The Forest House's baklava video?
The baker kneads sour cream into the flour along with egg yolks and baking powder.



