We’ve all adopted weird coping mechanisms over the last few months and let’s be honest baking is probably one of them. In case you were wondering, sourdough is actually way easier to just buy from the shops like a normal person but whatever floats your boat.
Sometimes what you whip up in your kitchen in moments of iso-madness is actually pretty good. Heck, you may have even earned yourself a few new insta-fans for your troubles.
But unless you’re loading up your victoria sponge with neon pastels, jelly beans, and ridiculous puns, you might as well be making humble pie ‘cos you’re in Alice Bennett’s house and she didn’t come to play.
Look at your cake, now back to these, now back to your cake, now back to these. Sadly, it isn’t these, but if you stopped doing your normal job and started spending all day ‘erry day working the piping bag, it might look like these (in two years).
Bennett AKA Miss Trixie Drinks Tea is the undisputed icing champ who has, according to her website, spent the last couple of years perfecting her craft by, uh, travelling the world and eating Chelsea Buns (what is the application process for this job – we’re ready).
She’s managed to turn a weekend baking hobby into a full-time career selling things that look like this and will deliver FOR FREE her frosted creations straight from her oven to your face – provided you live within 10kms of the Melbourne metro area.
The lifting of lockdown is on the horizon. Some of us are going to emerge from this better, stronger, more mentally and physically prepared to take on any challenges that the world will throw at us. Others will emerge fatter, covered in frosting, squinting into the sun wondering where the last two months went. We aim to be the latter. Miss Trixie, show us the way.
