2015 World Pastry Cup Explained

Native Name:Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie 2015
Native Name Lang:French
Date:25-
Place:Lyon, France
Organizers:-->
Participants:21 teams (representing 21 nations)

The 2015 World Pastry Cup (French:Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie 2015) is an international pastry contest which took place in 25–26 January 2015 in Lyon, France.

Competition

For 10 straight hours each participating team composed of three candidates were tasked to complete 21 culinary items; 3 chocolate desserts, 3 frozen fruit desserts, 12 identical desserts on a plate, and 3 artistic creations with each made from three different materials - sugar, chocolate and sculpted hydric ice. The three candidates from each team specializes either on pastries, chocolate and in ice cream. The 2015 edition was the first time that the candidates were tasked to make a sculpture out of a whole block of Valrhona chocolate to be included in their artistic creation made of chocolate. The candidates used two identically sized blocked ice for their ice sculpture. For their sculpture made of sugar, the sculpture was required to make of at least 50 percent drawn sugar and blown sugar. A new pointing system was also utilized for the 2015 edition.[1]

The 21 entries will be judged based on taste, artistic presentation and coherence with the theme.[2]

Participants

21 teams from 21 nations qualified to participate at the 2015 World Pastry Cup. Algeria, Philippines and Guatemala made their debut at the 2015 edition of the tournament.[3] France, the 2013 champions and host of the World Pastry Cup, did not participate at the tournament.

Final rankings

RankTeamScore
1 Italy8.197
2 Japan7.402
3 United States7.139
4 Malaysia6.967
5 Denmark6.893
6 United Kingdom6.769
7 Sweden6.743
8 Singapore6.621
96.595
106.499
11 Switzerland6.387
12 Philippines6.025
13 Argentina5.932
14 Mexico5.888
15 Colombia5.540
16 Morocco5.522
17 China5.437
18 Tunisia5.347
19 Guatemala5.306
20 Algeria4.983
21 Egypt4.911

Source:[5]

Awards

Special Prizes

Special Prizes were also awarded. The Philippines which participated for the first time won the special prize for Sculpted Ice. Guatemala were conferred with the Team Spirit award due to the team member's solidarity and close working. Italy was awarded the Best Innovative Spirit for the team's usage of icing for its entries. Japan was awarded the special prize, Press for its chocolate desserts. Social media users choose the winners of the Best Promotional Poster, which was awarded to Morocco.[6]

style=Sculpted Ice
Philippines
style=Chocolate
Malaysia
style=Sugar
Denmark
style=Team Spirit
Guatemala
style=Best Promotional Campaign
Switzerland
style=Best Innovative Spirit
Italy
style=Press
Japan
style=Best Promotional Poster
Morocco
Rizalino Mañas
Bryan Dimayuga
Vicente Cahatol
Tay Chee Siang
Tan Wei Loon
Cheong Jun Bo
Mads Kilstrup Kristiansen
Helene Overgaard Jensen
Mike Con Druschke Adelsten
Henry Tambriz
Claudia Ramírez Zea
Luis López
Giuseppe Piffaretti
Tiziano Bonacina
Riccardo Magni
Emmanuele Forcone
Francesco Boccia
Fabrizio Donatone
Kazuhiro Nakayama
Junji Tokunaga
Shinichi Sugita
Taoufik Marouane
Aimane Choukri
Younes Zarouli
Promotional Managers:
Stefania Villa
Valentina Merra

Notes and References

  1. News: World Pastry Cup: Italy takes gold, beating Team Japan and USA. 28 January 2015. Malay Mail Online. 28 January 2015.
  2. News: French chefs to sit out competition in 2015 Pastry World Cup. 28 January 2015. AFP. Malay Mail Online. 20 January 2015.
  3. Web site: CMP FINALE 2015. Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie 2015. 28 January 2015.
  4. Web site: TEAMS - CMP FINALE. Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie 2015. 28 January 2015.
  5. News: Comsti. Angelo. Team Philippines wins Best Ice Sculpture, places 12th in World Pastry Cup. 28 January 2015. Coconuts Manila. 27 January 2015.
  6. News: Italy Wins the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie 2015. 28 January 2015. Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie 2015. 27 January 2015.