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Could a local Coromandel Peninsula bakery win a national award?

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Are you a Coromandel business that makes the best pies in NZ? Entries are now open for the 2024 Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Awards.


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Does your local baker make a great pie?

Pie fans around the country have just one thing on their minds right now as entries open for the 26th Bakels NZ Supreme Awards. ‘My local bakery makes damn good pies, but could they win?’  

Just thinking about those pies makes your mouth water, right? Well there are 45 awards up for grabs including highly commended, so tell your baker to check out pieawards.nz and enter.

“Last year we crowned our 25th Supreme winner and what a celebration that was. After the awards night we saw bakeries right across New Zealand seeing a huge boost in sales as a result of winning one of the other awards on the night. And we know that even bakeries that place within the top 10 see sales growth. That really sums up why we continue to hold the Pie Awards every year. Other sectors of hospitality receive recognition, and we’re here to make sure bakers earn some credit too. They feed this nation virtually every day from early morning, until in some cases, the early hours of the morning."

“So let’s celebrate the bakers, and the pie makers in cafes, lunch bars, catering services and restaurants. Provided they make their pies onsite they can enter. Maybe they buy in their pastry. That’s okay. They can enter the Café Boutique category and earn recognition with a ‘stand-out’ filling. But they’ve got to be in to win.”

– Brent Kersel, NZ Bakels Managing Director

Plenty of categories to choose from

There are 11 entry categories:

  • Steak & Cheese
  • Steak & Gravy
  • Mince & Gravy
  • Mince & Cheese
  • Potato Top
  • Bacon & Egg
  • Chicken & Vegetable
  • Gourmet Meat
  • Vegetarian
  • Café Boutique
  • Commercial Wholesale
  • and Supreme.  

Pie entries will go through their paces on Judging Day, July 25 and winners will be announced on July 30 at the Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Awards.

Gold for Whangamata in 2023

Here’s what Michelle Liddell of Chill Café in Whangamata had to say after she won the gold award in the Café Boutique category last year as a first time entrant: “We just thought we would enter and see how we go, but we didn’t think it would win us gold, that’s for sure. The impact on the business was absolutely massive.”

How to enter the Bakels Supreme Pie awards

The Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Awards are open to businesses that have pies that are on sale to the public including; retail and commercial bakeries, cafes, lunch bars, restaurants, caterers and commercial bakeries and food businesses.

  • Entries open now
  • Entries close June 27 at 5pm
  • Enter and for more information and details go to Bakels NZ Supreme Pie Awards. 
  • The Bakels Supreme Pie Awards will be on July 30.

It doesn’t cost anything to enter, but if your baker wins an award the response will be incredible.   

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