Amaury Guichon
Amaury Guichon (born 15 March 1991) is a Swiss-French pastry chef and chocolatier. 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 Geneva. 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 Thonon-les-Bains, 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 Paris. 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 Cannes on the French Riviera. 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 executive chef by the age of 21. In 2013, Guichon was a contestant on the France 2 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 Las Vegas branch of his Patisserie, with shops in the Aria Resort and Casino and Bellagio. He worked as a private consultant and conducted masterclasses. In 2019, Guichon co-found 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 9 million subscribers on YouTube, 11 million followers on Instagram and 19 million followers on TikTok. 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 Netflix, a competition where contestants construct chocolate sculptures. Guichon guides the contestants and judges the final result. Guichon will be a judge on the Australian reality series Dessert Masters in 2023. 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)

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1991 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Geneva
French chefs
French chocolatiers
French cookbook writers
French educators
French expatriates in the United States
French Internet celebrities
French people of Swiss descent
French television personalities
Swiss chocolatiers
Swiss chefs
Swiss cookbook writers
Swiss expatriates in the United States
Swiss people of French descent
Swiss television personalities
Food and cooking YouTubers
Pastry chefs
Reality cooking competition contestants
21st-century French educators
21st-century Swiss educators
21st-century French non-fiction writers
21st-century Swiss non-fiction writers
Place of birth missing (living people)