2015 World Pastry Cup

2015 World Pastry Cup
Native name Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie 2015
Date 25-26 January 2015 (2015-01-26)
Location Lyon, France
Participants 21 teams (representing 21 nations)
Awards 1st, gold medalist(s)  Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Japan
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  United States
Website www.cmpatisserie.com

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 deserts, 3 frozen fruit desserts, 12 identical deserts 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 will mark 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][2][3]

The 21 entries will be judged based on taste, artistic presentation and coherence with the theme.[3]

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.[2] France, the 2013 champions and host of the World Pastry Cup, did not participate at the tournament.[3]

Final Rankings

Rank Team Score
1  Italy 8.197
2  Japan 7.402
3  United States 7.139
4  Malaysia 6.967
5  Denmark 6.893
6  United Kingdom 6.769
7  Sweden 6.743
8  Singapore 6.621
9  South Korea 6.595
10  Chinese Taipei 6.499
11   Switzerland 6.387
12  Philippines 6.025
13  Argentina 5.932
14  Mexico 5.888
15  Colombia 5.540
16  Morocco 5.522
17  China 5.437
18  Tunisia 5.347
19  Guatemala 5.306
20  Algeria 4.983
21  Egypt 4.911

Source:[5]

Awards

Overall

Gold
 Italy		 Silver
 Japan		 Bronze
 United States
Emmanuele Forcone
Francesco Boccia
Fabrizio Donatone
Kazuhiro Nakayama
Junji Tokunaga
Shinichi Sugita
John Kraus
Joshua Johnson
Scott Green

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]

Sculpted Ice
 Philippines		 Chocolate
 Malaysia		 Sugar
 Denmark		 Team Spirit
 Guatemala		 Best Promotional Campaign
  Switzerland		 Best Innovative Spirit
 Italy		 Press
 Japan		 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

References

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