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10 Pies We Can’t Take Our Eyes Off!

The days are getting cooler, and since we’re always in the kitchen, our thoughts are turning to pies! They are the perfect cold weather baking project for so many reasons. You get to enjoy the warmth of the oven, plus the unbeatable smell of caramelising pastry and sugar, and it’s so comforting and homey to have a slice of pie after dinner. Here are 10 beautiful pies from across the web, which we just can’t take our eyes off!

BakeClub

Learn to Bake Brilliantly with BakeClub

We’re delighted to share with you the new class calendar for Anneka Manning’s Sydney-based baking school, BakeClub. If you’ve ever wanted to learn the basics of baking brilliantly, this is your chance! Read on to discover the lesson schedule, plus details for entering our amazing BakeClass competition.

Queen chats to Anneka Manning of BakeClub

Anneka Manning is perhaps our closest heir to the title of Baking “Queen”. She is a food editor, cookbook author, cooking teacher, home economist, and the founder of Sydney’s BakeClub baking school. In her 23 years in the industry, Anneka has worked for an impressive list of leading food publications – including Australian Gourmet Traveller, australian good taste and The Australian Women’s Weekly. In celebration of our partnership with BakeClub, today we chat to her to learn more about the cooking school and her recently released book, BakeClass.

Join us Cake Bake and Sweets Show 2016!

At Queen, Fine Foods there are a couple of big baking events we look forward to every year; Christmas, Easter, Halloween, birthday parties, and basically any time someone needs a cake! But perhaps the most exciting one for us is the Cake Bake and Sweets Show! This year it’s on in Sydney from June 3-5 at the Sydney Showground Olympic Park and together with the lovely, equally baking-obsessed team at Dr. Oetker, our time at the show is going to be bigger and better than ever!

Lyndel Miller

Amazing Bakers & Decorators Interview Series: Lyndel Miller

Our interview series has taken us behind the scenes of amazing blogs, bakeries, events and magazines, but this one is extra special as we speak to Australian stylist and author of ‘Naked Cakes’, Lyndel Miller.

Trends

Our Top 10 Most Baked Recipes in 2015

If you’ve been baking with Queen in 2015, you’ll have noticed a few recipes pop up time and time again. Our most loved recipes are enduring across season and occasion because they’re so easy, so delicious and make everyone swoon for just one extra nibble. Have you baked your way through this list? If not, maybe make a start these summer holidays, we hope you find a new favourite!

Queen Baker & Decorators Interview Series

Amazing Bakers & Decorators Interview Series: Lisa Brown of Sweet Magazine

Today we’re delighted to introduce you to the lady behind one of Australia’s most beautiful magazines, Lisa Brown of Sweet Magazine. Filled with dazzling ideas for cakes, decorating, events and styling, Lisa sure knows how to make every occasion pretty and beautifully sweet!

Amazing Bakers & Decorators Interview Series: Meaghan Cook

Have you ever looked at pictures of beautifully decorated cakes or awe-inspiring treats and wondered what inspires the people that create them? We have too! So we put on our journalist hat and scoured the country for Australia’s top talent to create the Queen Amazing Bakers & Decorators Interview Series. In our latest interview, the gutsy baker herself, Meaghan Cook joins us to talk about her journey from photography to the wonderful world of Instagram and her stunning layer cakes.