The Vancouver Foodster 10th annual Sundae Challenge was a success featuring sundae creations from cafes around Vancouver. Each cafe featured their sundae creation from August 8-September 1, 2024. 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.
The Winners are:
1st Place:
{115 points}
Slavic Rolls Food Truck
Sweet Evil Messy Roll
Price: $14
Created by: Raphael, Corinne and Mina
Slavic Rolls offers a great tasting pastry, made fresh in front of customers from a company that doesn’t believe healthy food has to taste bad or be boring. They are a pastry dessert, ribbon wound around a wooden cylinder, rolled in sugar and cinnamon. The pastry is baked on a slowly turned rotisserie, above an open fire. As it bakes, it caramelizes the sugar, giving off irresistible aroma and addictive taste. We add Bavarian Creme, Lemon curd, Strawberry Glaze on the top Vanilla Gelato, Nutella, chocolate sauce and some decorations.
Ingredients: Pastry dough grandma recipe flavours are all Hallal & Kosher Bakery Made.
Offered: Specific days mobile locations check on Vancouver street food app , Instagram,FB.
Slavic Rolls Food Truck
Mobile rotating locations
Instagram @slavicrolls
2nd Place:
{109 points}
Life is Sweet Confections
Chocolate Peanut Pod
Price: $11.99
Created by: Liana Gerber
72% single origin Dark chocolate gelato and Peanut butter fudge gelato inside of a dark chocolate cocoa pod topped with roasted peanuts and dark chocolate fudge.
Ingredients: 72% single origin Dark chocolate gelato, Peanut butter fudge gelato, roasted peanuts, and dark chocolate fudge.
Offered: All the time
Life is Sweet Confections
175 West 3rd Avenue, North Vancouver
Web: https://life-is-sweet.ca/
Instagram @lifeissweet.confectionary
3rd Place:
{108 points}
Life is Sweet Confections
Pecan Pie Sundae
Price: $11.99
Created by: Liana Gerber
Housemade mini pecan pie, topped with brown butter gelato, candied pecans, and molasses caramel.
Ingredients: Pecan pie, Brown butter gelato, Candied Pecans, Molasses Caramel
Offered: All the time
Life is Sweet Confections
175 West 3rd Avenue, North Vancouver
Web: https://life-is-sweet.ca/
Instagram @lifeissweet.confectionary
In the People’s Choice Awards category, the public who tried the Sundae creations were the ones who had the opportunity to cast their vote throughout the challenge.
The Winners are:
1st Place People’s Choice:
Slavic Rolls Food Truck
Sweet Evil Messy Roll
Price: $14
Created by: Raphael, Corinne and Mina
Slavic Rolls offers a great tasting pastry, made fresh in front of customers from a company that doesn’t believe healthy food has to taste bad or be boring. They are a pastry dessert, ribbon wound around a wooden cylinder, rolled in sugar and cinnamon. The pastry is baked on a slowly turned rotisserie, above an open fire. As it bakes, it caramelizes the sugar, giving off irresistible aroma and addictive taste. We add Bavarian Creme, Lemon curd, Strawberry Glaze on the top Vanilla Gelato, Nutella, chocolate sauce and some decorations.
Ingredients: Pastry dough grandma recipe flavours are all Hallal & Kosher Bakery Made.
Offered: Specific days mobile locations check on Vancouver street food app , Instagram,FB.
Slavic Rolls Food Truck
Mobile rotating locations
Instagram @slavicrolls
2nd Place People’s Choice:
Life is Sweet Confections
Chocolate Peanut Pod
Price: $11.99
Created by: Liana Gerber
72% single origin Dark chocolate gelato and Peanut butter fudge gelato inside of a dark chocolate cocoa pod topped with roasted peanuts and dark chocolate fudge.
Ingredients: 72% single origin Dark chocolate gelato, Peanut butter fudge gelato, roasted peanuts, and dark chocolate fudge.
Offered: All the time
Life is Sweet Confections
175 West 3rd Avenue, North Vancouver
Web: https://life-is-sweet.ca/
Instagram @lifeissweet.confectionary
3rd Place People’s Choice:
Life is Sweet Confections
Pecan Pie Sundae
Price: $11.99
Created by: Liana Gerber
Housemade mini pecan pie, topped with brown butter gelato, candied pecans, and molasses caramel.
Ingredients: Pecan pie, Brown butter gelato, Candied Pecans, Molasses Caramel
Offered: All the time
Life is Sweet Confections
175 West 3rd Avenue, North Vancouver
Web: https://life-is-sweet.ca/
Instagram @lifeissweet.confectionary
Our Media judges for this challenge were: AJ Heraghty, Danny Hoa and Ray Lee.
Each media judge will have scored the creation with a maximum of 40 points as follows: Overall Taste 20 points, Originality and Uniqueness 10 points, Presentation and Appearance 10 points). The total number of points a sundae creation could earn is 120 points.
Thank you to all the cafes and food truck that accepted my invitation and featured their Sundae on the menu for the past few weeks during this challenge.
I encourage you to visit the winning cafes to try their Sundae creations! See all the entries here.
By: Richard Wolak