{"id":746569,"date":"2026-06-19T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746569\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T11:37:17","slug":"country-cob-bakery-wins-australias-best-pie-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/746569\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Cob Bakery Wins Australia\u2019s Best Pie 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

When it comes to iconic Australian food items, a classic meat pie with an interior hotter than the surface of the sun is tough to beat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week, the best pies (and pasties) in the country went head to head at Australia\u2019s Best Pie and Pastie Competition<\/a>. Held over three days on the Gold Coast by the Baking Association of Australia, hundreds of entries faced double-evaluation by a panel of industry experts.<\/p>\n

Each entry is inspected first as a cold pastry to check the bake, then heated and evaluated for shape, size, colour, filling flavour, texture and creativity. Entries are then judged based on the combined results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Victoria\u2019s Country Cob Bakery<\/a> took the crown for Australia\u2019s Best Pie with its Malaysian prawn pie and 12 medals overall.\u00a0The\u00a0pie\u2019s\u00a0filling is a mix of creamy coconut curry, aromatic spices and prawns wrapped in Country Cob\u2019s flaky, golden pastry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Malaysian food, and the idea for this pie came from an amazing seafood curry my wife and I had one cold night at a Malaysian restaurant. I told her, \u2018This would make a great pie\u2019, co-owner Ryan Khun told Broadsheet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI shared the idea with my brother [co-owner and head baker] Chan, and after lots of research, trial and error, we finally created our Malaysian prawn pie.\u201d <\/p>\n

The Khun brothers are no strangers to the competition circuit, and were awarded best pie-maker in the same competition three years in a row (2018-2020), and again in 2023 for their Cambodian fish amok pie. Country Cob has locations in Boronia, Kyneton and Springvale.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Australia\u2019s best pastie went to South Australia\u2019s Orange Spot Bakery, another competition regular and the winner of the Best Traditional Pastie category in last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

Victoria dominated the major categories this year with eight wins across pies and pasties, followed by South Australia with five, and Queensland with four.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of winners<\/a> for 2026:<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s\u00a0Best Pie: Country Cob Bakery, Vic (Malaysian Prawn Pie)
Plain Mince Beef Pie: Paradise Bakehouse, Qld (Runner-up: Goldies Bake Shop, Qld)
Chunky Plain Beef Pie: Gisborne Bakery and Cafe, Vic
Flavoured Beef Pie: Country Cob Bakery, Vic
Gourmet Pie: Paradise Bakehouse, Qld
Poultry Pie: Paradise Bakehouse, Qld
Seafood Pie: Country Cob Bakery, Vic
Mushroom Pie: Banana Boogie Bakery, SA
Vegetarian Pie: North End Bakehouse, Vic
Gluten Free Pie: Heavens Bakehouse, Vic
Apprentice Plain Mince Beef Pie: Jasper Metzke, North End Bakehouse, Vic
Australia’s Best Pastie: Orange Spot Bakery, SA
Traditional Pastie: Orange Spot Bakery, SA
Cornish Pastie: Ray’s Patisserie, Qld
Gourmet Pastie: Orange Spot Bakery, SA
Vegetarian Pastie: Orange Spot Bakery, SA
Gluten Free Pastie: JoJo’s Gluten Free Goodies, Vic
Apprentice Traditional Pastie: Natalie Falo, Orange Spot Bakery, SA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to iconic Australian food items, a classic meat pie with an interior hotter than the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":746570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,127975,154466,51652,2331,8851,1295,17541,1625,621,44,18601],"class_list":["post-746569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bars","tag-broadsheet","tag-cafes","tag-culture","tag-drink","tag-food","tag-guide","tag-lifestyle","tag-national","tag-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=746569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}