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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Kelly Burke

Remembering the Australian Women’s Weekly birthday cake book: ‘A phenomenal cultural icon’

A display of cakes made using the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake book
‘We did a call-out for photographs – we got more than 3,000 in a matter of days’ … cakes made using the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake book, on display in Bendigo Art Gallery. Photograph: Leon Schoots

Since its original publication in 1980, the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake book has become a national treasure. So when Bendigo Art Gallery asked members of the public to send in photos of their attempts at the recipes, curator Lauren Ellis was flooded.

“We did a call-out thinking we might get a few dozen, that would be cute,” she told the Guardian. “We got more than 3,000 within a matter of days.

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