Vancouver Cake Challenge
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Welcome to the Vancouver Foodster Cake Challenge. Restaurants, bakeries and cafes from all over the city were invited to enter their Cake creations into this challenge. Each cafe and bakery will be featuring their cake creations on their menu from November 15-December 8, 2024.
How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the cake creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best cake creation for the People’s Choice award winners.
Share your experiences: Tweet (and don’t forget to tweet or instagram your photos) throughout the challenge, our twitter and instagram address is @vanfoodster and the hashtag is #CakeChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.
Voting criteria – some things to help you judge your favourite cake creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.
How to VOTE :
- Look for our Cake challenge posters in each of the participating bakeries and cafes.
- Scan the QR code and Vote for your favourites from November 15 – December 8, 2024
Get some friends together, visit 2 places or more to taste the different Cake creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites between November 15 – December 8, 2024.
Here are the Cake creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.
Yudi Patisserie
Saitama Hojicha Chiffon cake
Price: slice: $9.5; 5.6″: $38; 6.5″: $58
Created by: the team
Description: This is a delicious cake that originated from Sitama, Japan. The cake is very soft, airy and delicate. The cream has a strong fragrance of hojicha tea. It can be decorated with/without nuts. Available in slices and whole cakes (5.6″ or 6.5″)
Ingredients: milk, oil, vanilla paste, whipping cream, cream cheese, baking powder, flour, eggs, sugar, hojicha tea, nuts & chocolate (optional decoration only).
Available: all the time
Offered: preorder: contact the store 1 day in advance.
Delivery option: Available on Fantuan/ Uber Eats at higher prices.
Yudi Patisserie
8580 Alexandra Road, unit 1195, Richmond
Tel: 604-370-0777
Web: https://www.instagram.com/patisserieyudi
Instagram @patisserieyudi
Trees Cheesecake + Organic Coffee
Ferrero Rocher Cheesecake
Price: Slice: $9.95 or 6-Inch: $42
Created by: The Ferrero Rocher Cheesecake was created by our Trees Kitchen Staff a few years ago. However, the latest version has been expertly crafted under the leadership of our kitchen manager, Nancy Lin Wang.
Description: Baked daily in our kitchen, Ferrero Rocher is back and better than ever! We’ve worked tirelessly to enhance the flavour of our beloved creation, and we’re proud to announce that we’ve elevated this cheesecake to new heights.
This year, we will combine premium cream cheese with the signature flavour of Nutella. But that’s not all: every slice will be adorned with a whole Ferrero Rocher chocolate, nestled on a new base of chocolate whipped cream and sprinkled with gold flakes!
For chocolate lovers, our improved blend of hazelnut paste and crushed hazelnuts ensures the perfect texture and rich taste that makes this cheesecake genuinely extraordinary.
Ingredients: Cream Cheese, Vanilla Paste, Eggs, Hazelnut Paste, Nutella, Crushed Hazelnut, Gold Flakes, Whipping Cream.
Offered: all the time
Delivery: Doordash.
Preorder and takeout: Anybody can call directly to our stores to order the cheesecake.
Trees Cheesecake + Organic Coffee
450 Granville Street
Phone (604) 684-5022
255 E.Broadway (Mount Pleasant)
Phone: 604-695-9639
5078 Joyce St
Phone: 604-895-4211
10299 University Dr #104, Surrey
Phone: 604-496-1714
Instagram: @treescoffee
Just Cakes Bakeshop
Biscoff Mousse Cake
Price: $7.50
Created by: the team
Description: Brown sugar cake layered with biscoff mousse and a brown sugar whipped cheesecake; topped with a biscoff montee, chocolate pearls, biscoff cookie pieces, and a biscoff drip.
Ingredients: Biscoff montee, chocolate pearls, biscoff cookie pieces, and a biscoff drip.
Just Cakes Bakeshop
#5-7548 120 Street, Surrey
Tel: 604 503 5577
Web: https://www.justcakesbc.com/
Instagram @justcakesbakeshop
And
Just Cakes Bakeshop
17767 64 Ave Unit #103, Cloverdale
Tel:
Instagram @justcakesbakeshop
Our Media judges for this challenge are:
Corey Lee
Instagrammer and Influencer
Instagram @sweettoothguy
tiktok @sweettoothguyishere
Jay Minter
Writer of food and the arts for On The List, Vancouver Presents and other publications.
Instagram @jminter
Joyce Lam
Food Blogger for her own Vanfoodies
Instagram: @vanfoodies
TikTok @vanfoodies