Birthday bake off
LOGAN Brown’s new pastry chef, Kristen Gibb, celebrated her 30th birthday by baking 30 cakes.
As well as starting her new job at the award-winning restaurant, Gibb was up at the crack of dawn to bake in preparation for her “dream party” at Newtown’s Car Club last week. After work she kept going in order to get the cakes iced in time.
She had a few helping hands however. Friends and family picked up flour and other supplies in the lead-up to the big bake and a few selective friends, who had already passed the ‘Gibb bake test’, made a few more, perhaps more than she had hoped for with 31 cakes baked in total.
“When I imagined my ultimate dream party it was 30 cakes and I thought no that would be impossible but then I thought – well, it isn’t actually,” she says smiling.
“Cakes are my favourite thing in the whole world and when I look at them now half eaten it makes me even happier to see everyone else happy having eaten them.”
There was pink marble cake, a popular beetroot cake, red velvet cake, decadent peanut butter cake, carrot cake, the children’s favourite - swimming pool cake - and her Magnum Opus - a nine-layered chocolate sponge cake.
“I was meant to make 14 layers but I ran out of time,” she says laughing.
As well as starting her new job at the award-winning restaurant, Gibb was up at the crack of dawn to bake in preparation for her “dream party” at Newtown’s Car Club last week. After work she kept going in order to get the cakes iced in time.
She had a few helping hands however. Friends and family picked up flour and other supplies in the lead-up to the big bake and a few selective friends, who had already passed the ‘Gibb bake test’, made a few more, perhaps more than she had hoped for with 31 cakes baked in total.
“When I imagined my ultimate dream party it was 30 cakes and I thought no that would be impossible but then I thought – well, it isn’t actually,” she says smiling.
“Cakes are my favourite thing in the whole world and when I look at them now half eaten it makes me even happier to see everyone else happy having eaten them.”
There was pink marble cake, a popular beetroot cake, red velvet cake, decadent peanut butter cake, carrot cake, the children’s favourite - swimming pool cake - and her Magnum Opus - a nine-layered chocolate sponge cake.
“I was meant to make 14 layers but I ran out of time,” she says laughing.
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