If there’s one thing Melburnians love, it’s a good bakery. Cross-town bakery crawls are fun, but you can save a lot of time with the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival’s third annual Baker’s Dozen at Fed Square.
The event runs from 10am until 3pm or sold out (the more likely scenario), on Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30.
Top bakeries including All Are Welcome, Tarts Anon and Monforte Viennoiserie set up stalls with one-off goods and old favourites. This year, there’ll be exclusive collaborations between Iris The Bakery and Sydney’s Hot-Listed AP Bakery, Inveloch micro-bakery Invy Baker and Tivoli Road Bakery founders Michael and Pippa James’ Urbanstead, and Baker Blue and Copenhagen’s Hart Bageri.
Get the best of Broadsheet first with Today – our free newsletter. Our expert editors curate the day’s most interesting and useful stories – new restaurants, must-see exhibitions, fashion trends, travel spots and more.
SIGN UPPlus, Lune will also be proofing and baking croissants on-site, and there’ll be a hot cross bun bar with goods from the likes of Loafer Bread, Falco and Bread Club.
Here’s an exclusive look at all the baked goodies you can get your hands on.
All Are Welcome
• Pecorino custard khachapuri
• Chocolate hazelnut kouign-amann
• Fennel seed and cardamom palmier
Antara
• Pumpkin spice, salted sourdough miso and macadamia ice-cream sandwich
• Strawberry gum, rhubarb jam, white chocolate and lemon myrtle rocky road ice-cream sandwich
• Aru’s duck-sanga sausage roll with peanut sambal
Baker Bleu
• Custard tart
• Cinnamon bun
• Heirloom tomato danish
The Flour Melbourne
• Mont Blanc cake
• Matcha dacquoise
• Almond, rosella whole wheat, eggs and rum galettes bretonnes
• Pecan and daechu (dried jujube) galettes bretonnes
• Vanilla macadamia financiers
The Invy Bakery x Urbanstead
• Semla choux
• Chocolate rye brownie cookie
• Swedish bun
• Sourdough danish with rhubarb, almond frangipane and vanilla mascarpone
Iris the Bakery x AP Bakery
• Twice-baked AP croissant with confit lemon, bitter almond and black tea
• AP focaccia with marinated chicken and mango achaar
• AP sesame and fenugreek loaf
• Choux puff with blood plum and lemon verbena cream
Kudo
• Pandan and mango lamington ice-cream
• Purple sweet potato Mont Blanc
• Potato and saltbush maritozzo
Little Cardigan
• Shio pan
• Pineapple and vanilla sablé
• Black sesame croissant
• Matcha, candied pear and white chocolate bun
Lulu & Me
• New York cheesecake
• Basque cheesecake
• Chocolate pistachio cheesecake
Lumos Bakery
• Brownie bomb
• Twice-baked pistachio croissant
• Kimchi croissant
Madeleine de Proust
• Hazelnut madeleine
• S’moreo madeleine
• Iced Vovo financier
• Pistachio raspberry financier
Mietta by Rosemary
• Pandan layer cake
• Mietta-misu layer cake
• Eight-layer carrot and chocolate cake
• Inception cake
Monforte Viennoiserie
• Salted hojicha kouign-amann
• Maple bacon, smoked raclette and dill pickle pain Suisse
• Fig, orange blossom and almond croissant loaf
Raya
• Siu mai sausage roll
• Battenberg cake
• Ube banana pie
• Matcha strawberry cookie
Tarts Anon
• Smoked pecan and butterscotch tart
• Sticky date and Earl Grey tart
• Matcha strawberry and rice cream tart
To Be Frank
• Carbonara twist
• Pecan and maple syrup scroll
• Cherry and pistachio panettone