# 2015 World Pastry Cup

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

## 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. France, the 2013 champions and host of the World Pastry Cup, did not participate at the tournament.
* Participating Nations
* Algeria
* Argentina
* China
* Colombia
* Denmark
* Egypt
* Guatemala
* Italy
* Japan
* Malaysia
* Mexico
* Morocco
* Philippines
* Singapore
* South Korea
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Taiwan
* Tunisia
* United Kingdom
* United States

## 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 |
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## 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.
| 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 |
| 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 | Promotional Managers: Stefania Villa Valentina Merra | Emmanuele Forcone Francesco Boccia Fabrizio Donatone | Kazuhiro Nakayama Junji Tokunaga Shinichi Sugita | Taoufik Marouane Aimane Choukri Younes Zarouli |