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30 showstopping celebration cakes to pack for Cake Picnic
Want your cake to stand out among the crowd of 1600 bakes? These stunning cakes are guaranteed to impress at the communal picnic event.
Going to Sydney’s Cake Picnic? This is how to transport a cake so it arrives in one piece
Expert bakers, including Katherine Sabbath and Emelia Jackson, share their pro tips to make the journey as smooth as your buttercream.
- Annabel Smith
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Five sweet and juicy ways to celebrate summer stone fruit (feat. Adam Liaw’s mix-and-pour peach cake)
Blink and you’ll miss stone fruit season. From cardamom-spiced plum cakes to a cheeky riff on an American classic, here are five ways to get your fix.
Adam Liaw’s summer peach cake
Peaches are the hero in this simple mix-and-pour cake, delicious served with ice-cream or cream.
- 1-2 hrs
- Adam Liaw
Helen Goh’s Matildas tribute cake
Helen Goh created this green and gold cake in honour of the Aussie soccer stars.
- 1-2 hrs
- Helen Goh
The secret to perfect glossy brownies: Emelia Jackson’s best recipe
These simple, foolproof tips guarantee you’ll bake chocolate brownies with a fudgy centre and that signature crackly top every time.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Emelia Jackson
Helen Goh’s nectarine, pistachio and brown-butter friands make the perfect January treat
These little nectarine and brown-butter cakes suit January’s rhythm perfectly: hot days, long matches on TV, slow drifting between indoors and out.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Helen Goh
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‘Harder to get than a Taylor Swift concert ticket’: World-famous Cake Picnic is coming to Sydney
Sydneysiders are in for a treat this March when viral social event Cake Picnic brings 500 cakes to the Royal Botanic Gardens.
- Erina Starkey
Mango mascarpone sponge cake
This genoise sponge is a very useful recipe to have in your baking arsenal.
- 1-2 hrs
- Helen Goh
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Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s hit apple, lemon and ricotta cake plus four more fruity faves to bake this weekend
Juicy with summer fruits, light, crumbly and fluffy all at once. Julia Busuttil Nishimura specialises in gorgeously golden cakes perfect for impromptu afternoon teas.