Next Monday, May 23, from 6:40 p.m., Cyril Lignac will host a new program on M6. What will she be called? The Cake Academy. There will be 24 high-level amateur students, wishing to retrain in pastry, selected from all over France to follow an intensive training in this program. During their course, they will have the chance to rub shoulders with some big names in the profession such as Pierre Hermé, Sébastien Vauxion and Philippe Conticini.
They will learn to master pastry techniques and meet all the creative challenges of their teachers. For several weeks, all these little people will learn the fundamentals of pastry within the confines of the Institut des Arts Culinaires Lenôtre but also in the largest palaces in France, such as the Shangri-La. The best student of the Academy will be able to pocket 10,000 euros, a pastry CAP and above all will receive a work contract in one of Cyril Lignac’s pastries.
Our colleagues from Pure Media inform us that every Friday, “During the first cycle, the two best candidates from each promotion will win an immersion internship and will compete for the title of best student of the week. Conversely, at the bottom of the ranking, two students will play, on the same day, for their place in the academy. A total of three students, half of each promotion, will leave the academy each week during this first learning cycle”.
Afterwards, “12 amateur pastry chefs, divided this time into two classes of six, will thus qualify for the second stage, the development cycle. The six best will then access the last cycle, that of professionalization, and the two most efficient will compete for victory. during a final which will take place under real conditions”. “The candidate, whose big cake and small cake, will have been the most appreciated by customers and the jury led by Cyril Lignac, will win the competition.“
The pastry chef will be accompanied by two teachers, Ophélie Barès, ten years of palace behind her, and Desty Brami, executive chef at the Château de Ferrières (Seine-et-Marne), a pastry school located in the Paris region.
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Adam Javal-Fauconnier