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The winners
The 2026 Ballarat's Best Pie Awards Ceremony was held on Saturday 1 August at Itinerant Spirits.
The winners were:
- Ballarat’s Best Pie and Best Savoury Pie – The Shared Table's Sher Wagyu Reuben pie
- Best Sweet Pie – Cookie Cult's Struck Gold & It's Sticky pie (available at Yellow Espresso)
- Best Bakery Pie – Sovereign Hill's slow-cooked blade steak pepper pie
- Brilliantly Unexpected Pie – Flying Chillies' pandan flower pie (available at The Salty Sparrow Cafe and selected local markets)
It proved to be a very tough decision for judges and pie connoisseurs Tim Bone (MasterChef Australia contestant), Kara Monssen (Herald Sun food and wine editor), Alejandro Saravia (acclaimed Melbourne chef), Richard Cornish (food writer) and Cr Ben Taylor (City of Ballarat Deputy Mayor).
After a heated competition and thousands of public votes throughout August, the People’s Choice Pie for 2026 was:
Emma’s Bakery with its Meredith Dairy goat deluxe pie.
Taking second place was Mrs Browne Bakes with its banana and honey miso caramel gold fever hand pie.
And in third place was Sovereign Hill with its slow-cooked blade steak pepper pie.
