Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book
''The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book'' is a recipe book focused on children's-themed birthday cakes published as part of ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' magazine cookbook series by Australian Consolidated Press, written by Maryanne Blacker and Pamela Clark. First published in 1980 and re-released in 2011, it has become an "Australian cult classic" and a "publishing phenomenon". Between its launch in 1980 and its relaunch in 2011, the book sold more than a million copies, despite having been out of print for a significant portion of that period. During the 1970s and 80s, ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' was among the highest-selling magazines in Australia and published a wide range of titles for cake decorating, recipe and meal ideas in both book and magazine form. Themes and designs There are 108 themed cakes appearing in the original edition, "largely composed of packet butter cake mix, Vienna cream icing and lollies", although "for the over-achie ...
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Pamela Clark
Pamela Clark (born 1944) is an Australian chef, cookbook author and food presenter, and has been associated with ''The Australian Women's Weekly'' for 50 years. Early life Clark spent her preschool years living on Aneityum, Vanuatu, due to her father's work there. In 1948, the family left Aneityum and returned to Australia, and from 1949, she attended Meriden School in Strathfield, Sydney. Her favourite school subject was Home Science with teacher Miss Scott, who was a former cookery demonstrator at the Australian Gas Light Company (AGL). Aged 11, Clark decided that she, too, wanted to work in the food industry. At 15, she completed a cake-decorating course at a local technical college. She left school aged 17 in the early 1960s, and followed in Miss Scott's footsteps by working as a cooking demonstrator for four months at AGL, and then worked at the St George County Council for seven years. From her work through the Council at the Sydney Royal Easter Show, she met staff fro ...
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