Saori Sasaki of the Tokyo Patisserie School won the Relais Desserts Charles Proust Trophy and made history as the first woman to win the award.

For this the 2022 edition, Relais Desserts has chosen to organize the competition behind closed doors in an intimate atmosphere reserved only for professionals. The Yachts de Paris liner hosted this edition of the awards during which​ the candidates’ creations were evaluated in complete anonymity by a professional jury.

The juries, chaired by Patrick Agnellet, were composed as follows:

Tasting Jury:

Patrice Ibarboure, Jean-Paul Hévin, Maxime Frédéric, François Perret and Jeff Oberweis.

Artistic Jury:

Etienne Leroy, Franck Michel, Jonathan Mougel, Fabien Emery, Hideki Kawamura and Julien Boutonnet.

This year’s theme was: Naturalness and the candidates had to make an artistic piece as well as a dessert, both having to respect the theme.

The tasting jury assessed the quality of the desserts proposed by the candidates. They took into account the taste qualities but also compliance with the theme.

The tasting prize was awarded to Romain Bert of Maison Vincent Guerlais for his Gala dessert, which obtained the highest tasting score.