In 2023, The Australian Women's Weekly turned 90, so we decided to celebrate in the best way possible. With cake! And not just any cake but one of your cakes. We held a Best Birthday Baker competition, asking readers to create and share their own iconic birthday cake.
The winner would not only take home a cash prize of $5000, but would also have their fabulous creation featured in an upcoming issue of the magazine. Plus their cake would be included in the next edition of the famous Children’s Birthday Cake Book, which has been reprinted more than 30 times since it was published in 1980. Australian Women’s Weekly birthday cakes have brought joy to so many children throughout the years, from the jelly-filled Swimming Pool and green-tinted coconut Soccer Field, to the iconic Rubber Ducky and Choo-Choo Train. More than half a century later they continue to do so.
After over 1300 amazing competition entries, and much deliberation and debate at The Weekly’s headquarters, there was one stand-out winner, and that was Elizabeth Kelly’s Cockatoo cake. Inspired by the Rubber Ducky, Elizabeth’s winning cake is a delicious butter cake covered in lashings of fluffy buttercream and decorated with classic banana lollies to create the cockatoo’s crest, blackcurrant pastilles for the eyes and Mars Pods for the beak. The Cockatoo cake is a wonderful addition to the Children’s Birthday Cake Book, and we’re delighted to include it in the next edition. Congratulations, Elizabeth, on being the Australian Women’s Weekly Best Birthday Baker.
Elizabeth Kelly
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