If there’s one thing Melburnians love, it’s a good bakery. While it’s fun to go on a bakery crawl across town, this weekend 13 of the city’s best bakers will be popping up at Fed Square as part of the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival’s second annual Baker’s Dozen event.

The event runs from 11am until 4pm or sold out (the more likely scenario), on Saturday March 23 and Sunday March 24. Bakers will be stopping by with some of their classics, such as Mali Bake’s matcha chiffon roll with sake cherries and white chocolate cream, and one-off creations for the weekend, like the special collab pie between Bread Club and Mauritian wine bar Manze. Here’s an exclusive look at the full menu, all the bakers and all the baked goodies you can look forward to trying at the event.

Antara 128

• Croissant pull-apart with Sunda’s Vegemite curry
• Market Lane tiramisu Danish
•’Nduja escargot with honeycomb and fried rosemary

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Baker Bleu

• Feta and za’atar twist
• Chocolate and gianduja babka
• Pain Suisse

Black Star Pastry

• Strawberry watermelon cake
• Blueberry and lavender Danish

Bread Club

• Twice-baked hot cross bun filled with almond cream
• Manze x Bread Club collab pie
• Creme Egg doughnut
• Hot cross bun doughnut
• Traditional hot cross buns
• Hunted & Gathered chocolate hot cross buns

Falco

• Traditional hot cross buns
• Peanut butter and miso cookie
• Mini pork and fennel sausage roll
• Mini spinach and ricotta roll

Kudo

• Crispy rice, dried shrimp, spring onion oil and pork floss focaccia
• Gluten-free cheese tart
• Golden Gaytime canelé

Madeleine de Proust

• Brown butter and leatherwood honey madeleine
• Strawberry and yoghurt madeleine
• Earl Grey madeleine

Mali Bakes

• Olive oil ricotta cake, custard, roasted raspberries and lemon curd buttercream
• Matcha chiffon roll, sake cherries and white chocolate cream
• Roasted corn cheesecake, dulce cream and corn dust

Mietta by Rosemary

• Honey-misu layer cake
• Eight-layer carrot, pecan and Valrhona chocolate cake
• Two-texture Valrhona chocolate cake

Monforte Viennoiserie

• Chilli honey, fennel pollen and fleur de sel croissant
• Gianduja babka
• Buckwheat and wattleseed teacake

Tarts Anon

• Tiramisu tart
• Smoked pecan and butterscotch tart
• Mango yuzu tart

The Flour Melbourne

• Vanilla sea salt dark chocolate financier
• Strawberry and cream dacquoise
• Matcha cream and ganache dacquoise

To Be Frank

• Pastrami, emmental cheese and salsa verde croissant
• Orange, almond and sumac pain Suisse
• Cherry and pistachio panettone