The Baking Association of Australia has just held its 2019 pie and pastie competition and announced the nation’s best for both. In a monumental solidification, both overall winners hailed from the same bakeries as last year.
Back-to-back wins
A Cambodian migrant is making Australia’s best pie
in the town of Kyneton, nestled in the leafy Victorian Macedon Ranges, once again took out Australia’s Best Pie and this time it was for their caramelised pork and pepper pie.
“Actually this is one of our Cambodian favourites food back home, and we could see that not many bakeries in Australia doing pork pie,” says Ryan Khun, co-owner and production manager at the bakery.
The winning pork and pepper pie. Source: Country Cob Bakery
He developed the pie with his brother, Chan Khun, who is also co-owner and baker.
“We thought this is going to be something interesting and very challenging to make it into a pie filling from our Cambodian food but with Australian taste. So, we slightly adjusted the recipe and ingredients over the last 3 months to make it more delicious and so everyone will enjoy it,” he says.
“We thought this is going to be something interesting and very challenging to make it into a pie filling from our Cambodian food but with Australian taste.
“Even the 12 judges at the competition said this is one of the best pork pies they’ve ever had. It’s rich in flavour, with tender pork and the aroma is amazing.”
Best Australian pastie again went to in Kernot, Victoria for their roasted vegetable pastie.
Jo Jo’s took out the best gluten-free pastie category (as you’d hope) and best gluten free pie for their Thai red curry pie. The bakery’s gluten-free pastie win offers a solid vindication for who have spent so much time average baked goods.
The two winners were chosen from a total of 345 Bakeries, with more than 1,760 pies assessed. It took 12 judges to complete the assessments, and by our calculations across the three days of judging, that’s around 49 pies tasted per judge per day! Can you say dream job?
Country Cob Bakery’s best pie win last year was a monumental moment for Chan, a Cambodian migrant who told SBS Food he literally , so it’s no surprise to see his pies featured further in the category list taking out best seafood pie for their curry scallop, as well as scoring gold and silver medals in nearly .
Below is the full list of the best in class winners – and you can find all the competition results .
The curry scallop pie came in as best seafood pie for 2019. Source: Country Cob Bakery
CLASS WINNERS:
