On Saturday, January 25 during Sirha Lyon 2025, the 19th edition of the Pastry World Cup ended with the victory of Japan. France and Malaysia complete the podium, winning respectively the silver and bronze medals.
The defending champion, the Japanese team retained its world title behind Masanaori Hata (chocolate candidate), Yuji Matoba (sugar candidate) and Ryu Miyazaki (ice cream candidate). With this performance, Japan asserts itself as one of the world’s leading pastry countries.
“This year again, the competition provides a magnificent demonstration of the pastry know-how and the surpassing of oneself of the candidates,” says Pierre Hermé, president of the Pastry World Cup. “And all this with many changes such as the duration of the competition which has been reduced, the transformation of the chocolate dessert by a “Chocolate Show” which forces the pastry chefs to show great creativity and to get out of their laboratories, the candidates can be proud.”
In this edition of the competition, candidates faced an unprecedented test: the “Chocolate Show”. During this event, they created and designed 26 sweet creations based on Valrhona chocolate in a finger-food spirit, a nod to the street food acclaimed in the world. This highlighted the involvement of a whole team and took the candidates out of their laboratories in the middle of the competition to highlight them in front of the members of the jury and the public.
“Being here in the heart of Sirha Lyon for the Pastry World Cup is an honor, and an extremely exciting moment for a pastry chef like me,” says Amaury Guichon, honorary president of this Grand Final. “You can see each team and therefore each culture interpreting its heritage through its art in each of its creations. The level is extremely high in the use of chocolate and sugar, it is sincerely the highest artistic level of what can be done in pastry.”
The final results of the 2025 Pastry World Cup:
- Japan
- France
- Malaysia
- China
- Belgium
- Italy
- South Korea
- Singapore
- United Kingdom
- Argentina
- Philippines
- Morocco
- Paraguay
- Chile
- Colombia
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Egypt
Belgium won the special eco-responsible prize of this Grand Final of the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, a prize awarded by the International Organizing Committee to the team that best complied with the various CSR criteria imposed by the competition rules and regulations.