Vancouver Cheesecake Challenge Winners 2022

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. 

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

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. 

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

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