Maurits van der Vooren wins Dutch Pastry Award 2019

Maurits van der Vooren wins the Dutch Pastry Award. In addition to this prestigious prize, he becomes candidate member of the Dutch Pastry Team.

Every year, the Dutch Pastry Team organizes the Dutch Pastry Award. This pastry competition at the highest level was organized for the 20th time this year and took place during “Bakkersvak”, an annual trade fair for the bakery sector. In addition to a gold medal, the winner of this competition also received a candidate membership of the Dutch Pastry Team.

In this year’s theme Heroes, pastry chefs could win this prestigious prize by making the best show piece and (dessert)cake. With his Guns of Navarone show piece and Compass pie Maurits was announced winner. Ymke Buelens won 2nd prize and Kiki Suijkerbuijk became 3rd. Because of the 20th edition of the Dutch Pastry Award, also Ymke and Kiki are candidate members of the Dutch Pastry Team.

Since January 2018, Maurits van der Vooren has been part of the Dobla Innovation team. Team Dobla congratulates Maurits on this unique achievement.

View his winning showpiece and entremet here.