THE BEST PATISSIER 2022. The Best Pastry Chef final is broadcast on M6 this Wednesday, December 7, 2022. Who from Manon, Benjamin or Nils will be crowned the big winner of the season?
[Mis à jour le 7 décembre 2022 à 14h00] The Best Pastry Chef is coming to an end. M6 is broadcasting the final of the gourmet competition this Wednesday, December 7, 2022, from 9:10 p.m. They are only three candidates left to claim the title of best pastry chef of season 11: Manon, Benjamin and Nils. To decide between them, Cyril Lignac and Mercotte have concocted events full of surprises for them.
During this “royal final” of the Best Pastry Chef 2022, the candidates will first have to make a sparkling cake using the mirror icing technique, at the request of Cyril Lignac. Afterwards, Mercotte will challenge them to make an inverted jasmine candlestick. Finally, Pierre Hermé, best pastry chef in the world, will ask them to imagine the ball of their dreams during the creative test. Who will be the big winner in 2022?
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The Best Pastry Chef is a cooking show broadcast on M6 since November 26, 2012. During this pastry competition, amateur candidates must take up the culinary challenges launched by Cyril Lignac and Mercotte, the two jurors, until they reach the final. The winner wins each year the edition of his own recipe book. The Best Pastry Chef is currently presented by Mary Portolano, after having been presented in the past by Julia Vignali (2017-2020) and Faustine Bollaert (2012-2017). Since the creation of the French program, there have been several variations of the program presented on M6: The Best Pastry Chef – celebrity special, which sees stars take part in the competition, but also The Best Pastry Chef – Professionals which is this time a competition of professional pastry chefs.
Le Meilleur Pâtissier is broadcast on M6 every year from the beginning of autumn, between September and the end of year celebrations. From season 10, in 2021, the show is no longer broadcast on Wednesdays, as it has been since the start of the show, but on Thursdays. In 2022, broadcasting resumes on Wednesday evenings, from September 7 at 9:10 p.m.
Season 11 of the Best Pastry Chef welcomes sixteen candidates. As every year, they are of all ages, and come from several regions of France and Belgium. All will fight to get the blue apron and avoid elimination, in the hope of winning the Best Pastry Chef trophy. You can discover their portraits and their particularities by clicking on this link.
- Benjamin, 32, fruit and vegetable buyer from Saint-Alban, finalist
- Manon, 20, student in BTS dietetics from Montpellier, finalist
- Nils, 26, doctoral student in finance from Levallois-Perret, finalist
- Adelina, 28, store manager from Belgium, eliminated in the semi-finals
- Cléo, 20, figure skater from Montlignon, eliminated in the quarter-finals
- Sébastien, 37, choreographer and dancer from Saint Affrique, eliminated in episodes 9 and 11 (he is back in episode 10)
- Vanessa, 41, business manager of a communication agency in Kintzheim, eliminated during episode 10
- Justine, 30, pharmacist from Amiens, eliminated in episode 8
- Alicia, 27, heavyweight driver from Strasbourg, eliminated in episode 7
- Karel, 29, engineer in conversion from Paris, eliminated in episode 6
- Najoua, 29, foreign affairs consultant from Courbevoie, eliminated in episode 5
- Sébastien, 47, head of a Toulouse cybersecurity company, eliminated in episode 4
- Hervé, 47, team leader in the construction industry, eliminated in episode 3
- Franklin, 76, retired from Paris, eliminated in episode 2
- Carine, 45, civil servant in a community in Le Mans, eliminated in episode 1
- Wiggings, 25, executive assistant from Nanterre, eliminated in episode 1
In 2021, Maud was crowned winner of the Best Pastry Chef. Aged only 16, the candidate imposed herself during season 10 with her dazzling progress, impressing Cyril Lignac and Mercotte with all of her creations. As a reminder, at the end of the show, the winner leaves with the right to publish a recipe book.
As always, M6 broadcasts are available for replay on the 6play.fr site, which allows them to find the programs broadcast on the channel. To take advantage of this feature, you can use your TV box in the Replay section or go to the website, log in with a Facebook or Google account or register by email and thus watch the catalog of shows available for replay.
It’s hard not to be tempted to taste the creations of the Best Pastry Chef candidates. And if you have the soul of a pastry chef, it can even make you want to go behind the stove! As a reminder, each winner of the M6 show publishes their own book of recipes made during the show. But some recipes can also be discovered online: the site KitchenAZ offers recipes from previous seasons of the best pastry chef, while Mercotte publishes on its website advice on how to carry out the famous technical test that makes program participants tremble every week.