Elsie Lange
Locals are lucky as pie to live near the pastry connoisseurs that are Country Cob Bakery in Kyneton.
At this year’s Baking Association of Australia’s Best Pie and Pastie Competition, the bakery took home a bag of awards, including best meat pie – for the fifth year running – as well as for best gourmet pie and best vegetarian/vegan pie.
Ryan Khun, who owns the business alongside his brother Chan, and is so happy to have taken home the trophies again.
“I’m pretty excited, we were pretty surprised that we won three of the classes there,” he said.
Their pockets of delight were chosen out of 2500 pies and pasties from bakeries across Australia.
The winning gourmet pie was a Char-Siu pork and apple sauce creation, a combination of a Hong Kong dish and an Australian apple sauce.
“We turned it into a pie filling, which is very unique… the judge gave us the highest score for this one because they said it is different, it is delicious,” Mr Khun said.
It’s been a big six years for the business – just last month appearing on Masterchef to reveal some of the tricks of the pie-making trade.
“During lockdown we were pretty quiet, we were struggling because not many people were travelling to Kyneton because of the distance limit,” Mr Khun said.
“We took lots of time to practice again and again our pies, to create new flavours – because we knew when the lockdown ended, people would be able to travel again.”
