Welcome to the 2nd Annual Vancouver Foodster Cookie Challenge.  Bakeries and cafes from all over the city were invited to enter their Cookie creations into this challenge. Each cafe and bakery will be featuring their cookie creations on their menu from March 14 – April 7, 2019.

How Does this all Work? For the public challenge, you are invited to go out and order any or all of the cookie creations in this challenge, then you decide who you think has the best cookie 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 #CookieChallengeYVR please include this hashtag in all your tweets during the challenge.

Voting criteria –  some things to help you judge your favourite cookie creations – keep these things in mind: originality, creativity, uniqueness, traditional, non-traditional, price, value and most importantly taste.

Get some friends together and make a day or night of it, visit 2 places or more to share and taste the different cookie creations or go solo or with a friend– just remember to VOTE for your favourites

Here are the Cookie creations in this challenge, listed in no particular order other than when they were received by us.

Italia Bakery

Raspbrule Stack

Price: $1.59

Created by: Chef Bozena

Description: Our handcrafted butter cookie dough, filled with a creme brûlée mascarpone ring. Raspberry center drizzled with white chocolate and burnt sugar crumbs.

Offered: All the time

Italia Bakery

2828 East Hastings Street, Vancouver

Tel: 604.251.6800

Web: http://www.italiabakery.ca/

Twitter: @italiabakery

Instagram @italiabakery

 

Bonus Bakery Café

Bonus Cookie

Price: $3.15

Created by: Monica Tang, Bonus Bakery Head Baker

Description: The Bonus Cookie is filled with the best childhood memories and is the perfect bite between sweet and salty.

Offered: all the time

Bonus Bakery Café

1185 West Georgia Street, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 620-5811

Web: https://www.instagram.com/bonus.bakery/

Instagram @bonus.bakery

 

The Bench Bakehouse

Salted Caramel Brownie Cookie

Price: $3.25

Created by: Tracy Steele

Description: a soft dark chocolate cookie with salted caramel and roasted nuts

Offered: all the time

The Bench Bakehouse

1641 Commercial Dr, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 251-0677

Web: https://www.thebenchbakehouse.com/

Instagram: @thebenchbakehouse

 

Fratelli Bakery

Chocolate Lava Brownie Cookie

Price: $2

Created by: Loredana Hibbert

Description: with toffee, toasted pecans and a caramel drizzle!

Available: all the time

Fratelli Bakery

1795 Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Tel: (604) 255-8926

Web: http://fratellibakery.com/

Twitter: @fratellibakery

Instagram @fratellibakery

And

Fratelli Bakery

459 E. Columbia Street, New Westminster

Tel: (604) 777-2524

Web: http://fratellibakery.com/

Twitter: @fratellibakery

Instagram @fratellibakery

 

Delish Gluten Free Bakery

PEA-Not Cookie

Price: $3.99

Created by: Jenna Perreault

Description: Our cookie will be a Vegan and Gluten Free PEA-Not Cookie. Tastes like a peanut butter with out the nuts! It has vegan marshmallows, dark chocolate and sea salt!

Offered: all the time

Delish Gluten Free Bakery

2166 E Hastings Street, Vancouver

Tel:

Web: http://delishglutenfree.com/

Twitter @delishGF

Instagram @delishglutenfree

And

Delish Gluten Free Bakery

1730 Coast Meridian Rd #203, Port Coquitlam

Tel: (604) 945-9994

Web: http://delishglutenfree.com/

Twitter @delishGF

Instagram @delishglutenfree

 

Make sure you pick up one of the Cookie Challenge postcards available at each of the participating bakeries and cafes. Remember to Vote for your favourites daily, all the voting details are here.

Our Media judges for this challenge are:

David Grange

Blogger for BCFoodieBlogger

Twitter: @BCfoodieblogger

Instagram: @BCfoodieblogger

 

Joyce Lam

Food Blogger for her own Vanfoodies

Twitter: @vanfoodies

Instagram: @vanfoodies

 

Yuki No

Blogger for Pekopekolife

Twitter: @Pekopekolife

Instagram: @pekopekolife