What is Canada's Favourite Sweet Treat? - Calling on All Canadians with Sweet Tooths

64 Made-in-Canada Sweet Treats Battle it Out in a Bracket-Style Tournament Where You Vote on the Winner. One Poll a Day with 2 Sweet Treats Squaring Off Against Each Other!

The final results were:

• Butter Tarts: 105 votes (86%) vs. Date Squares: 17 votes (14%).

  (Votes are combined between Substack, Threads, and Bluesky.)

Here’s the CHAMPIONSHIP :

🇨🇦 Butter Tarts

• A true Canadian original!

• These gooey, sweet pastries have been delighting taste buds since the early 1900s.

• First published recipe? 1900 in Barrie, Ontario.

• But their roots may go back to the 1600s, inspired by French-Canadian settlers.

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Here’s what you need to know about the poll:

• Every day during the tournament you can vote right here for your favourite sweet treat out of the 2 that are randomly selected to compete against each other for Canadian sweet treat supremacy.

• Voting for each match-up will only be available for 24 hours and then the next head-to-head match-up will be posted as a new poll for you to vote on.

• The sweet treat with the most votes in each poll will move on to the next round and will continue battling until you have chosen the champion.

• There are 64 competitors (listed at the bottom of this post), so there will be 7 rounds in total.

• I’ll also be posting the polls on any of my social media accounts where polls can be posted like X (twitter), and Threads.

• Let’s get ready (for our tummies) to ruuuuummmmbllleee-ah!

• If you’re a subscriber to Pinecone Diaries Daily, I’ll include a reminder to vote in each issue of the newsletter. I’ll also post a reminder on Subsstack Notes and my social media accounts. And I’ll always include a link to this page.

Here’s the List of Made-in-Canada Sweet Treat Competitors:

• Nanaimo Bars

Butter Tarts

• Maple Sugar Candies

• BeaverTails

• Pouding Chômeur

• Timbits

• Canadian Maple Doughnuts

• Maple Cream Cookies

• Jos Louis

• Flakies

• May West Vachon Snack Cakes

• Maple Taffy

• Blueberry Grunt

• Cherry Blossom Candy

• Candied Spruce Tips

• Crispy Crunch Chocolate Bar

• Mr. Big Chocolate Bar

• Cuban Lunch

• Swedish Berries

• Purdys Chocolatier’s Sweet Georgia Browns

• Glosette Chocolate-covered Raisins

• Jersey Milk Chocolate Bar

• Mirage Chocolate Bar

• St. Catherine's Taffy

• Dutchie (Tim Horton's)

• Lucky Elephant Pink Candy Popcorn

• Victoria Creams Chocolates

• Butter Tart Squares

• Ganong’s Pal-o-Mine Chocolate Bar

• Big Turk Chocolate Bar

• Caramilk Chocalate Bar

• Coffee Crisp Chocolate Bar

• Ganong Mint Smoothies

• Eat-More Chocolate Bar

• Clodhoppers

• Sixlets

• Alberta Honey Taffy

• Tiger Tail Ice Cream

• Moon Mist Ice Cream

• Poutchine au sac

• Schmoo Torte

• Jeanne’s Cake

• Figgy Duff

• Persian Rolls

• Date Squares (Matrimonial Cake)

• Sucre à la Crème

• Pets de Sœurs (Nun’s Farts)

• Galette à la Mélasse

• Poutines à Trou

• Chicken Bones Candy

• PEI Potato Fudge

• Cow’s Ice Cream - "Gooey Mooey”

• Jam Jams

• Purity Peppermint Nobs

• Indian Ice Cream (Sxusem)

• Birch Whiskey Toffee Sauce

• Chokecherry Cake

• Flapper Pie

• Saskatoon Berry Pie

• Moosehunters

• Billy Miner Pie

• Jambusters

• Chapman's Premium French Vanilla Ice Cream

• Chapman's Super Ice Cream Sandwich