The Definitive Ranking Of Bakers Delight’s Most Iconic Snacks

There is something very nostalgic about the Australian-owned bakery franchise Bakers Delight.

Maybe it’s because of the constant barrage of TV adverts featuring a piano riff that anyone who lived in the ‘90s can always hear in their head? Or maybe because it brings back memories of indulging in a sumptuous after-school treat while watching that weird animated version of Sabrina the Teenage Witch?

Either way, Bakers Delight and their gluten tolerant snacks aren’t going anywhere because they have over 700 locations which I know because they have a Wikipedia page and you don’t.

So let’s toast this Australian success story by ranking their 14 most iconic snacks from ‘thanks mum!’ to ‘why mum?’ For this list we are looking at snacks designed for one, so no loaves, pull-aparts or sharing with your sister. If you didn’t see your favourite snack on here, it’s because BD has a huge range and not every store sells every item, like this mysterious item called a ‘bunlet’.

Who ever heard of a ‘bunlet?’ Seriously, let us know if you’ve seen one of these, I have so many questions.

We ranked Bakers Delight’s most iconic single serve snacks from best to worst:

1. Cheese & Bacon Roll

C’mon, you knew this would be number one. Before school, after school, lunch, snack, breaky, and maybe even dinner when mum’s away. Any time is good for a Cheese & Bacon Roll.

A crunchy crust of the humble titular ingredients above a soft and yielding ball of white bread served fresh and warm from the oven does more to make you believe in God than religious education ever could. People who complain about Australia having no street food culture need to shove one of these in their gob like right now. Perfection. Next.

2. Berry & White Choc Scone

The idea of loading a scone with anything other than butter, cream, or jam might have made your nana feel patriotically offended, which only makes this grotesque and tradition-breaking scone all the more amazing.

Inside the firm but crumbly scone sits saccharine berries and chunks of white choc that do a three way high five to create an amazing texture with a sumptuous sweetness just short of sickly. Toddlers, kids, teens, adults — they all love a Berry & White Choc Scone. And these days, even nanas are converted.

3. Cheesymite Scroll

This is one so iconic that its name is recognised by the spelling and grammar check (cheesymite not cheeseymite). Bakers Delight claim to have invented this one back in ‘94, the year grunge music died and when you tuck into a Cheesymite Scroll, you might even think to yourself… ‘hmm, fair trade!’

Bite directly into the spiralling layers of bread and crispy cheese, or better yet unravel this monster to reveal the dark and tender heart slathered with the nation’s favourite spread caught in a passionate embrace with a golden garden of cheddar cheese.

Buy it and eat it. It’s good.

4. 100s & 1000s Finger Bun

This one is up against some stiff competition as every bakery does a finger bun but not all of them are quite so generous with the optional 100s & 1000s as BD. Sweet, crunchy and a little bit messy, this sugary treat is designed to be held in one hand and placed directly into your mouth while never once needing to be put down.

Eating one of these is like being a kid again. Your school bag is on the floor, unfinished homework is on the kitchen table and there’s still an hour more of cartoons before an adult changes channels to see the news headlines. The year is 1999, there’s a Toy Story 2 on the way and life is good.

5. BBQ Bonanza Pizza

Let’s start by saying the Bakers Delight pizzas are not in fact pizzas. They are too small, too bready and if someone invited you over for pizza and they’d just bought a bunch of these, you’d need to give them an intervention of some kind. The only reason you’d call them pizza is to anger an Italian. But my golly are they delicious, chief amongst them the BBQ Bonanza.

Cheese, BBQ sauce and an almost offensive amount of meat make this a pretty gut-busting snack that borders on a meal or at least something that signifies that calories can go and count themselves. Good for proof that you’re a big kid now and even better for hangovers.

6. Escargot

We know these things are called snails, we’ve seen them at other places so I don’t know why a franchise that started in Camberwell feels the need to be so bloody French about it.

Thin strips of puff pastry with some cheeky sultanas and an enigmatic sweet filling (possibly a custard but best not to ask) and a dusting of icing sugar. Your local bakery might do them better in which case go there after leaving an angry comment about it.

7. Choc Mud Scone

We’re getting to the middle of the pack now so I’ll make this quick. This tastes like the other Bakers Delight scones but it has chocolate in it. If you don’t like chocolate or scones then don’t eat it.

If you’re normal and do like these things then pop the kettle on, warm this brown brick up in the toaster, spread some butter on and prepare to forget about all the hate in the world for approximately three chocolatey minutes.

8. Apple Danish Lattice

Not wanting to diss anyone’s handiwork (yet) but the BD lattices inevitably look better than they taste. There’s a soft fruit paste filling that I guess tastes like apples and a sweet little bit of custard too. Unfortunately, when you get a bite of just the pastry, you notice that it’s a little dry.

Yeah, it’s got the look that will make any ‘00s suburban mum say ‘Ooh la la’ and will go well with a coffee, but this one won’t make you feel like the coolest kid in the playground, even if you can rest assured not everyone will want a bite.

9. Italian Roll

You just know that countless Aussies have asked for an ‘eye-talian roll’ when ordering this. Some people reckon that the addition of tomato paste and ‘eye-talian herbs’ make this a better, more elevated treat than the Cheese & Bacon Roll.

If you think this, you can go ahead and keep being wrong about it because it’s not better. Go on, write your own list. Pitch it to a lesser publication, maybe they’ll publish it but not here, not today mate.

It may surpass the Cheese & Bacon on crispy bits of cheese and toppings that hang over the side, but it is ultimately inferior. We don’t need this much going on first thing in the morning. Bakers Delight messed with simplicity when they invented this and now have the 9th place spot to prove why less is more.

10. Chocolate Croissant

If the previous roll and pizza exist to anger Italians then the BD chocolate croissant is enough to have a stereotypical Frenchie waving a flaming baguette in protest. Sorry to be all ‘I’ve been to France’ but this thing is a pretty sorry excuse for a ‘pain au chocolat’ (they should have channelled some of their ‘escargot’ energy).

To start, the choccy is too firm and adds nothing to the already lacklustre layers of pastry that seems devoid of the flakey buttery wonder that makes this continental treat famous. Warm and straight out of the oven, it’s a little better but if your town has more than one row of shops, there’s definitely a better choccy croissant out there.

11. Spinach & Fetta Danish

Everything about this one confuses me, right down to spelling feta with two ts (are we angering Greeks now too?). Not only is this smaller than the other snacks — although no one told the recommended retail price — but the universal puff pastry BD uses here is too sweet for a vessel carrying savoury ingredients.

It also comes in ham and cheese which is disappointing for the same reasons. Add to the fact that no kid wants spinach in between lunch and dinner, you have a snack that we can only speculate as to its existence.

12. Date Scone

“Kids!” calls Nana. “Come inside, we’ve got Bakers Delight for you!” Dropping your plastic cricket bat, you run inside red faced and sweaty to discover your nana smiling over a plate of date scones. You can feel the disappointment can’t you?

I’ll acknowledge BD does a good scone and I’ve got nothing against dried fruit but there’s no fun to be had here. There’s no choccy, no alchemy of ingredients and absolutely none of the promised delight for a baker or otherwise. In short: up yours nana.

13. Cheese & Pineapple Roll

I imagine the minutes for the meeting when this ‘treat’ was created have since been incinerated but I’ll do my best to recreate them here:

“Let’s make a pizza roll without sauce!”

“Ah, yeah I guess we can.”

“Great! Get rid of that ham too!”

“Do you think anyone will want to eat that?”

“Who cares!”

“Everything alright at home, Dale?”

“No.”

Wet pineapple on familiar bread with cheese that tries to insist that everything is okay with the conviction of a mum driving kids to church on a Sunday morning. Before I wrote this article, I hadn’t tried one of these yet and let me tell you, I felt like a dickhead ordering it. Almost as much of a dickhead as when I ordered…

14. Cheese & Olive Roll

Dear oh dear, Cheese & Olive Roll.

What a sad little life Cheese & Olive Roll. If all the snacks at Bakers Delight suddenly became sentient, the other snacks would be raising money to help the poor Cheese & Olive Roll get back on their feet. The Cheese & Olive roll would then spend the money on a handbag they will leave on the train next week.

This isn’t one of those ‘I don’t like this ingredient therefore it’s bad’ situations because I love olives. But the nasty amount of factory-pitted olives that are dropped on this roll with the grace of a police horse relieving itself is atrocious. The best bites in this are the ones without olives in which case you might as well get a Cheese Roll which we all know are for babies. I sincerely hope vegetarians like this because I don’t know who else could.

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And with that, our odyssey into Bakers Delight snacks is complete. Please let us know if we missed your favourite treat because the fact you read this whole thing suggests you either have some time to spare or have some truly passionate opinions about Bakers Delight. Either way, we salute you.