Little Pudding Bake Chat – Details, episodes & analysis

Lots of you will recognise Adam Miller from the final of the Great Australian Bake Off last year,  where he narrowly missed out on taking home the fancy cake stand to his good mate Laura Foo. During his time in that most fabulous of baking tents, Adam turned out literal show stoppers like his Margarita Cake and his take on the classic from every good childhood - the Chocolate Bavarian Tart. But it is since the show wrapped that he's making his mark in the baking world with his What's Adam Baking insta feed and his baking podcast, Bakeology. As you know, I love listening to people chat about their baking, so it was an instant favourite. And who better to spill the behind-the-scenes Bake Off goss, than a finalist? So I thought I'd get him on. This is a fun chat, with lots of LOLs between two baking nerds - the best kind!

Find Adam's baking @whatsadambaking and the Bakeology pod @bakeology.podcast  - because you can never have too many baking pods!

Thanks, as always, for listening.

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To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

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Canadian baking superstars Jenna and Ashley of Jenna Rae Cakes recently visited Australia to teach some workshops, bringing their signature fun flavours and decorating style to Cakers Warehouse.  I caught up with them while they were in Sydney to chat about their business, their career "pinch me" moments, their second cookbook and how they planned to spend their second week holidaying in Oz.

Find Jenna and Ashley's work on Instagram: @jennaraecakes or their website

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Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
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If Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was put into cake form, Das from Das Makes Cakes in Sydney is the lady to make it.  Her cakes are as creative and fun as she is, and her love of fashion, pink and all things 80's often shines through in her work.
Das talks me through her beginnings in baking, from being a bit over-competitive in her office bakes and going all-out on her kids' birthday cakes, which led to her first orders.
A few years later, and those orders have grown into a thriving cake business in the city's east. Das is generous with her tips and advice for aspiring cake makers and her stories are equally helpful and hilarious.

Find Das's work on Instagram @dasmakescakes and her website Das Makes Cakes. 

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!

Let's Price Up Shall We?
Emma of Emma Jane Cake Design gives it to us straight about pricing and talks about why she was compelled to cost up her cakes on social media in her Let's Price Up series. But first she makes a cocktail.
Emma is a trailblazer in the cake industry, inspiring the flower shaped cake trend with her range of acrylic discs which she ships from Perth all over the world and she balances her business with a big family. She is funny, frank, and at times a little salty, and cake makers are going to love this one.

See Emma's work on Instagram here.

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!

Cassie from Cas' Cakery is not only a leader in her field of cake decorating, she's an inspiration to all women in business.

In Ep 12, ahead of her appearance at the Cake, Bake & Sweets Show in Sydney, she talks about the beginnings of her cake business with simple mud cake hacks while a mum to four kids under six in a remote mining town, the incident that made her commit fully to the business (instead of pursuing a career in fitness) and how her life has changed over the past five years because of that decision. Cas also shares some behind-the-scenes fun of big cake shows, she tells me why she's excited to be bringing her daughters with her to Sydney and why she's made it her mission to support and empower women in the industry.

Follow Cas on socials @cas_cakery and find her website here.

This podcast was made in partnership with the Westgold Cake, Bake & Sweets Show, at Sydney Showground from September 22-24.

Go to the website here for tickets and information and follow all the fun @cakebakesweets.

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!

It’s Cake, Bake & Sweets Show week! This is go time for all the bakers presenting in Sydney next weekend. They’ll be baking and packing products, finessing their stands and probably trying to fit a nail or brow appointment in somewhere too! 

Here to talk us through her show demos, how she got started in baking and how she developed her very handy product, Cover Up, we’re kicking off the week with Lena from Savvy Cakes Sydney on Ep 11 of Little Pudding Bake Chat.

Follow Lena's work @savvycakessydney on Instagram or check out her website.

This podcast was made in partnership with the Westgold Cake, Bake & Sweets Show, at the Sydney Showground from September 22-24.

Go to the Cake, Bake and Sweets Show website for info and tickets, and follow all the fun @cakebakesweets on socials.

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!

You might remember Monica Cavallaro as the tall cake queen from The Great Australian Bake Off, where she was a finalist in 2016. Since then, she has built a successful range of decorating essentials for bakers, her beautiful cakes have featured on two seasons of Married At First Sight, and she has appeared at cake shows all over the world.

Monica's next event is the Westgold Cake, Bake & Sweets Show in Sydney, where she'll be presenting on the Super Stage, building a cake with her audience over three days. She talks me through what's happening at the show, how she developed her product range, her favourite cakes, and how even the wedding cakes in MAFS come with a side of drama.

Follow Monica on Instagram @moreish.cakes and check out her products and cakes on her website, Moreish Cakes.

This episode of Little Pudding Bake Chat is made in partnership with the Westgold Cake, Bake & Sweets Show, from September 22-24 at Sydney Showground.
Get your tickets here!

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!

This one is for the chocolate lovers! Jen Lo, the delightful chocolatier behind Meltdown Artisan, talks about her business journey from baker and cake designer to chocolate maker.  Jen reckons there's quite a few parallels between the two, and she likens coming up with her bon bon flavours to "taking a cake and reducing it to a tiny, bite sized piece."
We cover some of the challenges she has faced as a solo business owner and also the fun bits, like developing her own range of ethically sourced chocolate bars, Just, and helping to raise awareness of sustainability issues in the industry.

Check out Jen's work at Meltdown Artisan and on instagram @meltdownartisan

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!

Charlotte Ree is an author and home cook whose new book, Heartbake - A Bittersweet Memoir, tells the story of her search for love and identity following her marriage break-up, and how she learned to care for, nourish and accept herself while finding joy again in cooking. In this episode, she talks candidly with Larissa about all things Heartbake and her life before and after her own personal reckoning. 

Find Charlotte on Instagram @charlotteree or her website.

Buy her books, Heartbake and Just Desserts, at Booktopia

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!

Regional baker, Erin Davis, is putting the town of Marburg on the map through cake. She is the Creative Director of The Great Marburg Bake Off, a country show cake competition in, you guessed it, Marburg, and she is a hoot. We chat about pernickety cake show judges, the Australian Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Cookbook and associated nostalgia, and why you should never put your head too close to your beaters, especially if your hair is long. Also, I may yet nick her idea for a podcast name and change mine to Show Us Your Tins. 

 The Great Marburg Bake Off is on Saturday, September 30th in Marburg, QLD

For all the cake criteria and dates for 2023, see the website.

For Erin's updates, follow The Great Marburg Bake Off Instagram feed @thegreatmarburgbakeoff

To see all the cakes discussed on the episode, follow @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and @littlepuddingbakechat on Facebook

For Larissa's cakes and baking, follow @littlepudding

Thanks, as always, for listening.

Sign up to the Little Pudding Bake Chat newsletter here for pod news, recipes, recommendations and other useful bits & bobs.

To see all the cakes discussed on the show, follow along @littlepuddingpodcast on Instagram and Facebook.

For more of Larissa's work, follow @littlepudding and drop by her website.

If you like the show, share it with all your friends who bake!
I love hearing from you! If you have a second, I'd be so happy if you left a nice review on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen.

See you next time for some more Bake Chat!