A Lesson in Ice

In an effort to present to the world the strongest Australian team ever to compete at the World Pastry Cup,  Team Pastry Australia has again worked with Dutch Pastry Chef Jeroen Goossens last week in Australia. His expertise and experience  in all the skill areas in this competition including chocolate and ice master pieces gives the Australian team its best chance to be competitive.

Dean Gibson, team coach, said ”Jeroen is one of the very few professionals in the world that can master chocolate, degustation and ice, he was instrumental in our planning to go and win the Asian Pastry Cup in Singapore which was the qualifying competition for the World Pastry Cup in Asia”.

Over the week of intense training Jeroen designed and trained ice competitor Barry Jones, the team plans to include Jeroen in the final training prior to the competition in January. 

Gibson said of the ice training, “we have contracted Jeroen because he is the best at preparing pastry teams and he knows the Australian team having been involved from the start. It is interesting that we would bring Jeroen from the Netherlands to Australia to do ice carving and it would be great to have the Dutch pastry chefs traveling to the World Cup to support Australia next year”.

Team Pastry Australia is also looking for Dutch sponsors to support the training planned in the Netherlands to give the Australian team its best chance to compete against the big teams at next year’s Coupe du Monde in Lyon.