Let them eat 1,600 cakes: inside Australia’s first Cake Picnic

Cakes are artfully presented and then happily devoured as global phenomenon descends on Melbourne Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Baker Alice Bennett, also known as Miss Trixie Drinks Tea, is the self-proclaimed queen of cakes in Melbourne. She assumes her cheeky email signature is why she was tapped as an assistant judge at Australia’s inaugural Cake Picnic. When the global phenomenon descended on Kings Domain in Melbourne last Saturday, 1,600 cakes were artfully presented and ...

By Doosie Morris