The Vancouver Foodster Cheesecake Challenge was a success featuring unique cheesecake creations at restaurants around greater Vancouver. Each establishment featured their creation on their menu from June 10 – July 3, 2022 and their customers voted for their favourites daily throughout the challenge. Our media judging panel determined the ultimate winners of the challenge, and this was quite the task as each judge who tasted each creation with a rigorous process based on taste, originality/uniqueness and presentation/appearance.
Each media judge scored each creation with a maximum of 40 points as follows: Overall Taste 20 points, Originality and Uniqueness 10 points, Presentation and Appearance 10 points. The highest number of points a challenge creation could have been awarded is 120 points.
The Winners are:
1st Place:
{107 points}
Lyra Lou Cakes
Torched Banana Turon Cheesecake
Price: $6.50
Created by: Lyra & Abe
Description: Creamy New York cheesecake based & inspired banana turon flavour, topped with a dollup of delicious burnt butter yema (condensed milk custard), topped & torched in cinnamon sugar dusting, topped with sliced, cooked & sweetened banana cinnamon, finishing it off with a drizzle of caramel sauce.
Lyra Lou Cakes
102-14370 64 Ave, Surrey
Tel: (604) 503-5534
Web:https://www.lyraloucakes.com/
Instagram @lyraloucakes
2nd Place:
{98 points}
Small Victory Bakery
Spring Blueberry Cheesecake
Price: $7
Created by: the team
Description: A decadent ‘no-bake’ cream cheese filling piped onto an almond crust, with homemade blueberry confit, and topped with fresh local blueberries.
Small Victory Bakery
1088 Homer Street, Vancouver
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram @sv_bakery
and
Small Victory Bakery
3077 Granville Street, Vancouver
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram @sv_bakery
And
Small Victory Bakery
Amazing Brentwood, Burnaby
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram @sv_bakery
3rd Place:
{97 points}
Just Cakes Bakeshop
Eggless Espresso Cheesecake
Price: $7.05
Created by: Riley Drews & April Byland
Description: JCB presents this rich and creamy cheesecake, with a kick of espresso – perfect for a sweet pick-me-up! It features a chocolate crumb base, a slow cooked chocolate caramel layer, light and fluffy espresso cheesecake, vanilla Chantilly, and a chocolate espresso crumble on top.
#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
Instagram @justcakesbakeshop
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Cheesecake creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
Small Victory Bakery
Spring Blueberry Cheesecake
Price: $7
Created by: the team
Description: A decadent ‘no-bake’ cream cheese filling piped onto an almond crust, with homemade blueberry confit, and topped with fresh local blueberries.
Small Victory Bakery
1088 Homer Street, Vancouver
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram @sv_bakery
and
Small Victory Bakery
3077 Granville Street, Vancouver
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram @sv_bakery
And
Small Victory Bakery
Amazing Brentwood, Burnaby
Twitter: @sv_bakery
Instagram @sv_bakery
2nd Place People’s Choice:
Lyra Lou Cakes
Torched Banana Turon Cheesecake
Price: $6.50
Created by: Lyra & Abe
Description: Creamy New York cheesecake based & inspired banana turon flavour, topped with a dollup of delicious burnt butter yema (condensed milk custard), topped & torched in cinnamon sugar dusting, topped with sliced, cooked & sweetened banana cinnamon, finishing it off with a drizzle of caramel sauce.
Lyra Lou Cakes
102-14370 64 Ave, Surrey
Tel: (604) 503-5534
Web:https://www.lyraloucakes.com/
Instagram @lyraloucakes
3rd Place People’s Choice:
Just Cakes Bakeshop
Eggless Espresso Cheesecake
Price: $7.05
Created by: Riley Drews & April Byland
Description: JCB presents this rich and creamy cheesecake, with a kick of espresso – perfect for a sweet pick-me-up! It features a chocolate crumb base, a slow cooked chocolate caramel layer, light and fluffy espresso cheesecake, vanilla Chantilly, and a chocolate espresso crumble on top.
#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
Instagram @justcakesbakeshop
Our Media judges for this challenge were: Deanna Woo, Jacqueline Chui and Roanna Young.
Thank you to the chefs and restaurants that accepted my invitation and featured their Cheesecake creations on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning restaurants to try their cheesecake creations! See all the Challenge entries here.
By: Richard Wolak