That's Noice!

I don’t think there were too many Aussies who didn’t watch and get totally hooked on the ch10 reality show Masterchef.

One of the highlights of the show was patissier extraordinaire Adriano Zumbo and is amazing creations like his crockenbush and chocolate mousse cake, that have become somewhat of a household name.

Adriano is now giving you a chance to get your hands on one of his amazing Masterchef chocolate mousse cakes!

Adriano is making a limited edition run of 100 Chocolate Mousse Cakes for sale to the public.

Due to the popular nature of these now infamous cakes, customers will be drawn at random from a ballot system and be given the option to purchase the cake for $90.00.

5% of the proceeds will be donated to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Last week he also held an auction for a crockenbush and a slice of chocolate mousse cake. He raised over $1000 and all proceeds went to The Children’s Hospital.

Simply email your FULL NAME and a contact number to gimmecake@adrianozumbo.com and you could be in the running to buy one!

Anyone care to buy one and share a slice? Check out Adriano’s site for more details.

This is a great site for the current crafting phase that’s hitting Australia. Funky Fabrix is an online store (and Brisbane shopfront) selling a huge array of fabrics and patterns and other cool bits and pieces.

There are Australian fabrics as well as imported fabrics from countries like Japan.

You only need to take a quick look at the Top 100 Australian Women Bloggers to see how popular crafting is down under at the moment. Looking at Funky Fabrix I suddenly have the urge to buy a sewing machine and start sewing and crafting!

Seems this has been floating around the net for years, can’t say I have come across them before. Boob scarfs!

Unfortunately after much searching, there doesn’t seem to be anywhere you can buy them. Shame, they look very..umm..practical. Not sure what happen for that poor woman to end up with green boobs?

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Obviously, we love “big” things here in Australia – the Big Banana, the Big Merino… looks like we’re trying to get in on the “longest” things too.

Nullarbor Links is due to open late October this year and it will be the world’s longest golf course. The course is 1,365km long and would take about 4 days to complete.

The par 72 golf course (I have NO idea what that means LOL) has one hole in each of the 18 participating towns or roadhouses along the Eyre Highway, from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to Ceduna in South Australia. Each hole features a green and tee and an outback-style  fairway.

Looking at the web site, it’s actually interesting to see the effort that has gone into creating the whole shebang; the planning phase started back in May last year.

Golfing really isn’t my cup of tea, but I know some golf nuts who would LOVE this kind of thing. Imagine four days straight of driving, golfing, drinking and sleeping? Sounds like golf heaven to me!

Brasserie Bread in Botany is an AMAZING place. It has been voted #1 for breakfast in Sydney by a number of newspapers and magazines.

I was lucky enough to pop in there a few weeks ago for quick coffee and dessert. The bakery is viewable through a huge glass window and it’s fascinating to see bakers do their thing. Oh, and the food tastes great, too!

The best part was the classroom – Brasserie Bread offers classes for adults and kids. When I took at look at the classroom it was full of kids making pizza dough – flour was EVERYWHERE and the kids were having a ball rolling out the dough and adding all the ingredients. I wanted to get in and join them!

The team at Brasserie Bread also blog and tweet regularly, giving us even more insight into how a bakery operates.

I’m thinking of booking myself in for the Artisan Baking Workshop later in the year – hope they’re patient enough to deal with me, hehe.