“MasterChef: Dessert Masters” has officially named its judges: Melissa Leong and Amaury Guichon, TheWrap has exclusively learned.
The top pastry chefs from around the world are set to battle it out, participating in pastry-themed challenges in front of the famed “MasterChef Australia” kitchen with the winner taking home $100,000. Overseeing the competitors and challenges will be judges, food writer Melissa Leong, who previously served as a judge for “MasterChef Australia,” and world-renowned chef, Amaury Guichon.
At 21, Guichon — a Cannes-born pastry chef — became the youngest executive pastry chef in Paris. Now 31 with a more than 17-year-long career in pastry, Guichon is best known for his sugar work, life-size chocolate sculptures, complex cakes and perfect pastries.