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Sydney’s Cake Queen Confident About Re-establishing Business

Planet Cake is trading as usual, despite facing administration earlier in the year. Paris Cutler, the entrepreneur behind the company, has retained part ownership of the company...

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Supermarket Discounting Hurts Australia’s Largest Bread Maker

Crunched between rising input costs and supermarket discounting in the bakery sector, Goodman Fielder reported a 9 per cent drop in sales to $1.2 billion and a...

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Innovative And Indulgent Products Capture Consumer Market

More than 11,600 Australian household shoppers were surveyed on their choice of Australian products in the food industry to determine the 2013 Product of the Year across...

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Easter Window Revives Childrens Classic

An impressive 130kg of chocolate decorated Cacao’s shop window during the Easter period, featuring nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty. The massive dark chocolate construction was 120cm tall...

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Hot Cross Buns Prove Popular

Bakery franchise Bakers Delight has enjoyed another busy Easter period, producing close to 13 million hot cross buns across 614 bakeries nationwide. For 33 years, Bakers Delight...

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Muffin Break Pledges ‘no Extra Charge For Soy

In a market that typically sees consumers charged up to 60 additional cents for soy milk per cup of coffee, Muffin Break has announced it will not...

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Online Training: Logging On To Learn

In the past five years there has been an online education explosion. Location is no longer a barrier to study and accessibility to the internet is becoming...

Events

Country Bakery Takes Out Top Gong For Easter Buns

Baker Bart Honig and his team at Mooroopna Bakery in north-east Victoria officially have the best hot cross buns in the country. This is the first time...

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Chocolate Master Heads Down Under

Savour Chocolate and Patisserie School in Melbourne will host masterclasses by celebrated Belgian pastry chef Alexandre Bourdeaux. Drawing upon his experience as an executive pastry chef for...

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Bake Skills Australia Regional Selections Underway

Some of the country’s best and brightest young bakers and pastry cooks will put their hand up for selection in the next month to represent their training...