Amaury Guichon (born 15 March 1991) is a French-Swiss pastry chef and

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. He is known for his pastry designs and chocolate sculptures.

Early life and training

Guichon was born to a Swiss mother and a French father and grew up on the Haute-Savoie–Romandy border near

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, Switzerland. He has one older brother and one younger brother. In 2005 at the age of 14, he began his culinary training at the École Hôtelière Savoie Leman in

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, France and participating in local competitions. He perfected his pastry-making skills working at the Wolfisberg bakery in Geneva. He took up an apprenticeship at the Maison Lenôtre in

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. In 2010, he was awarded the title of Best Apprentice in France, by the council of the MOF association.

Career

After completing his training, Guichon was hired to run the Lenôtre boutique and school in

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on the

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. He later returned to Paris to work as an executive pastry chef at the Hugo & Victor patisserie and chocolate shop; he reached the level of

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by the age of 21. In 2013, Guichon was a contestant on the

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reality cooking series ''Who will be the next great pastry chef?'' (). He was third in the competition. In 2014, French pastry chef Jean-Philippe Maury invited Guichon to work at the

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branch of his Patisserie, with shops in the

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and Bellagio. He worked as a private consultant and conducted masterclasses. In 2019, Guichon co-founded the Pastry Academy with Belgian chef Michel Ernots in Las Vegas. In 2016, Guichon began posting his desserts and chocolate creations on social media. He has over 18.7 million subscribers on

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, 15.5 million followers on

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and 24 million followers on

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. Guichon's debut dessert cooking book The ''Art of Flavor'' was published on 13 December 2018. Guichon hosted the 2021 eight-episode reality series '' School of Chocolate'' on

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, a competition where contestants construct chocolate sculptures. Guichon guides the contestants and judges the final result. That same year Guichon became a US citizen. He celebrated by creating a chocolate Statue of Liberty for the Fourth of July. In 2022, Guichon's TikTok video of him constructing a giraffe out of chocolate became the most viewed TikTok video of the same year. Since 2023, Guichon has been a judge on the Australian reality series ''

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''. In 2024,

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commissioned him to create a

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sculpture of

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Filmography

Accolades

* ''Apprentice Chocolate Showpiece Contest'' – 1st (2007–2009) * ''Medalla de Oro'' (best apprentice) (2010) * ''Délices de la Méditerranée'' – 1st (2012) * ''Qui Sera le Prochain Grand Pâtissier?'' – 3rd (2013)

Bibliography

References

External links

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Amanury Guichon Cookbook
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