2019 wasn't the first croissant-off we've done. This year was the second, or maybe the first official, if we call the earlier effort a dress rehearsal.

For this year, five households participated. Laura and I split up and raided four local bakeries as soon as they opened this past Sunday. We carefully wrapped each croissant in plain parchment paper and color-coded them so we could collect votes online. We tucked Instructions with the voting form address into each bag.

I'm happy that we had some restraint and didn't try to gin up an electoral college scheme for the voting.

Here are the participants and the results.

2019 Croissant-Off votes with Boulted narrowly edging out Union for the win.

And there's the results for 2019. Tough crowd here in Raleigh. Not sure what we'll do next year. Croissants are nice because just about every bakery offers a simple, butter croissant—which makes for a nice playing field. If we did a chocolate you start running into twice-baked varieties, etc.

Scones anyone?