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Do you make Australia’s Best Pie or Pastie?

The BAA will host 2025 Australia’s Best Pie & Pastie Competition at the Baking Industry Trade Show.

Thanks to great industry sponsors and supporters, there will be THOUSANDS of dollars in prizes to win, as well as the National Title of:

2025 Australia’s Best Pie & 2025 Australia’s Best Pastie

Judges will be put to the test to establish during 3 massive days of competition, who has Australia’s Best Pie and Australia’s Best Pastie.

Australia’s Best Pie & Pastie competition is run by the National Body for industry – the Baking Association of Australia.

Our team of experienced and well respected judges take the time to judge every entry we receive!
All entries are judged as a cold entry, and then judged again and tasted as a hot entry – with your scores combining to help find Australia’s Best Pie & Pastie.

Only at the Baking Industry Trade Show.  July 15th – July 17th
Wentworth Park Complex, Sydney

How do the judges... judge?

Judges will be put to the test to establish during three days of competition, who has Australia’s Best Pie and Australia’s Best Pastie.

Australia’s Best Pie & Pastie competition is run by the National Body for industry, The Baking Association of Australia.

Our team of experienced and well-respected judges take the time to judge every entry we receive.

All entries are judged as a cold entry, and then judged again and tasted as a hot entry – with your scores combining to help find Australia’s Best Pie & Pastie.

Introducing The Triple Crown


For the first time in 2025 we will see the addition of The Triple Crown Competition!

If you are able to take out multiple national titles you will receive some awesome prizes. These prizes include a 4 tray combi oven from Tecnoeka and $10,000 cash for the winner of all 3 national titles, or $5,000 for the winner of 2 national titles.

The competition in 2025 is heating up

Congratulations to all of the winners from the 2024 Competition.
Information for the 2025 Australia's Best Pie Competition to come - Watch this space!

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Gold Sponsors

Industry Sponsors

Industry Supporters

International Butchers Federation

Stewart Latter

Jason Mizzen

Shaun 'Pyney' Pyne

Shaun Pyne ran a successful finance business for more than 20 years before selling up and hitting the road to realise his life’s ambition of visiting every pie vendor and bakery in Australia, bar none.

Carolyn Cameron

Carolyn Cameron is Sector Action Plan Lead for End Food Waste Australia. She has over 40 years’ experience in environmental and strategic planning, working with the mining industry, universities, state and national governments. After leaving the role of Senior Executive with the national Department of Environment in 2015, she has been a strategic consultant on complex environmental management projects, including for the past 5 years focussing on working with industry and governments to reduce food waste.

Tony Smith

Anton Duc

Anton was called to the bar in April 2015. He has a broad practice with a particular focus in employment and family law. Since being called to the bar, Anton has represented a wide variety of clients from corporations and individuals and not for profits. He is the BAA workplace and IR relations barrister.