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Australia’s Top 9 Wedding Cake Designers Announced

Australia’s top nine haute couture wedding cake designers were announced in the lead up to the International Cake Show Australia, which will be held in Brisbane from...

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All fibred up

A new type of wheat, with ten times the amount of fibre than current varieties, has just had its first harvest in the US. The new wheat...

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Pink Kits

Pink Kits Nestle Japan was the first to commercialise ruby chocolate in January by using the chocolate in a new flavour of Kitkat. The limited edition Sublime...

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A big leap for lupin

Eating products made with flour containing lupin can lower the risk of heart disease according to research carried out at The University of Western Australia (UWA). Lupins...

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Chocolate Companies to improve education in Ivorian cocoa communities

The Ivory Coast in west Africa accounts for nearly 40 per cent of global production of cocoa yet most small farmers in cocoa-growing regions cannot read or...

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Baking friends

Baking friends In an increasingly indoor and segregated society, Friendship Bread might be a way to connect 21st century communities. Friendship bread—the chain letter of baking friends—is...

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Vale Paul Bocuse

Vale Paul Bocuse, known as the “pope of French cuisine”, passed away in Lyon in January, aged 91. The legendary chef had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for...

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Taco look at this

The latest baking fusion on the streets is the tacro—a taco/croissant hybrid where taco fillings are encased in a croissant shell. The creation comes from San Franciso...

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Camel Chocolate

Camel farmer Yasmin Brisbane has teamed up with Michael Buckley from Freeze Dry Industries and Sunshine Coast chocolatier Brigid Woolnough to offer chocolate made with camel milk....

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Chocolates an endangered species

The sweet delight we know as chocolate comes from the beans of the cacao plant, a plant that needs constant temperature, rain and humidity to thrive. According...