MASTERS DE LA BOULANGERIE DONE AND DUSTED

Three titles were up for grabs at the competition, which saw the best fight it out to win the Gourmet, Nutritional, and Artistic Bread Making categories.

Deborah Ott from France took out the Gourmet Bread Making title with Ice Bakery, a Viennese pastry dessert and The Parisienne, a brioche shaped into a female bust and enrobed in lace.

Peng-Chieh Wang from Taiwan won the Artistic Bread Making category with his multi-coloured spectacle of the General and his Officers, a Taiwanese warrior made from bread and complete with battle crown, makeup, drum and trident.

The Nutritional Bread Making title went to Peter Bienefelt from The Netherlands. Peter won with his multi-flavoured bread shaped into a flower and Wow Factor Bread, described as “a bread that stimulated the mind and the senses”.

While Australia’s Dean Tilden didn’t take home the crown, he did us proud competing in the Nutritional Bread Making category with his Chicken and Corn Bread, which Team Australia described as “a bread that is not a bread, but that is made of bread and which offers many texture profiles”, alongside other creations such as boomerang-shaped loaves.

Australian Baking Team member and Aussie baking legend and masters Brett Noy said, “Dean has competed against the best in the world. Not only has he held his own but has led the way in both skill and professionalism.”