How I fell in love with baking elaborate cakes | Lisa Martin

After being deprived of a decent birthday cake as a child, I have taken to baking them myself with gusto

As a small child my mother’s birthday cake efforts extended to buying a modest sponge or ice-cream cake from the supermarket.

It wasn’t until I started to attend the birthday parties of other children, who had amazing ducks or Dolly Varden cakes from the Australian Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book, that I realised there are cakes and then there are cakes.

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