105 Baked Goods To Try at the MFWF Baker’s Dozen Fed Square Pop-Up

If there’s one thing Melburnians love, it’s a good bakery. Cross-town bakery crawls are fun, but you can save a lot of time with the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival’s fourth annual Baker’s Dozen at Fed Square.

The event runs from 10am until 3pm or sold out (the more likely scenario), on Saturday March 28 and Sunday March 29. This year, there’ll be exclusive collaborations between Ottolenghi recipe developer and cookbook author Helen Goh and Mietta by Rosemary; Drom, Sweet Cora Cakes and New York-based cookbook author Abi Balingit; Sydney’s Hot Listed AP Bakery and Quentin Berthonneau’s Oji House; Inverloch micro-bakery The Invy Baker and Urbanstead; and Trader House venues Morning Market and Supernormal.

Plus, there’ll be a hot cross bun bar with goods from Baker Bleu, Bread Club, Loafer Bread and Wild Life Bakery. 

Here’s an exclusive look at 105 baked goods you can get your hands on over the weekend.

AP Bakery x Oji House

• Choc-chip cookie
• Muffuletta in shokupan
• Colomba
• A “very bougie” lamington

Akimbo

• Beef rendang pie with fermented chilli ketchup
• Sesame and seaweed fougasse with maple glaze and Sarafian hummus

• Pineapple and coconut custard danish

Amann Patisserie

• Maple bacon danish• Kiwiberry flan• Traditional rum canelé

Antara

• “Golden Gaytime” (cocoa croissant with vanilla cremeux and miso caramel)
• Strawberry tart with whipped fig leaf ganache and confit strawberries
• Smoked trout escargot with potatoes and XO trout

Baker of Things

• Blueberry yo-yo
• Funfetti white chocolate cookie
• Blackcurrant cream bun
• Reuben scroll

Butter Days Bakery

• Pastrami danish with sauerkraut and dill pickles
• Butterscotch-soaked cinnamon scroll with cinnamon butter and brûléed cream cheese
• Fig leaf and roasted hazelnut profiterole
• Plum and pistachio marzipan tart

Calle Bakery

• Hot cross bun croissant wheel
• Berry twist• Dubai croissant
• Almond croissant

Drom

• Calamansi cheesecake suisse
• Toasted pili mocha moonrock
• Filipino bundle pack with cornflake crunch polvoron from Sweet Cora, adobo choc-chip cookies from Abi Balingit, ube castella from Halaya, calamansi cheesecake suisse from Drom, and Vegemite yema ensaymada from Drom, Sweet Cora, Balingit and Halaya.

Dua and Raya

• Kaya toast New York-style cookie
• Mapo tofu pie
• Ube and corn focaccia
• Pandan and strawberry cream cake

Emelia Jackson

• Mocha tres leches cake
• Pandan toasted coconut Swiss roll
• Spiced apple cake with brown butter cheesecake
• Paris-Brest choux bun with hazelnut praline

Hector’s Bakery

• Beef and pickles croissant
• Lemon curd doughnut 
• Cream cheese glazed doughnut

Helen Goh x Mietta by Rosemary

• Pandan, red bean and coconut layer cake

Iris The Bakery

• Macadamia and makrut lime bun
• Fig and pistachio turnover
• Sfincione palermitano (Sicilian deep-dish pizza)
• Semolina loaf

Kudo

• Banh mi twist 
• Corn and cheese tart
• Popcorn custard choux 
• Triple matcha canelé

Little Cardigan 

• Shokupan loaf
• Garlic shiopan 
• Black sesame almond croissant
• Jasmine tea melon pan with passionfruit ganache     

Lulu & Me

• Basque cheesecake 
• Black sesame cheesecake with kinako milk jam
• Fig leaf and peach cheesecake

Lumos

• Hazelnut twice-baked croissant 
• Chilli and garlic twist 
• Kinako and matcha croissant
• Everything bagel

Lune

• Almond croissant
• Kouign amann
• Ham and gruyere croissant
• Chocolate hot cross cruffin

Madeleine de Proust

• Sticky date madeleine with fruit-spiced butterscotch and Chantilly 
• Carrot cake madeleine 
• Poppin’ corn financier 
• Crocodile-fat-caramel financier 

Masses Bagels

• Rum and raisin bagel
• Shishito pepper butter, heirloom tomato and goat's cheese bagel
• Four-pack of wild-fermented bagels
• Sourdough and dark chocolate cookie
• Half and half: sea salt bagel tartine with one half rum and raisin, and one half shishito, tomato and goat’s cheese

Mietta by Rosemary

• Sixteen-layer carrot cake
• Strawberry, champagne and vanilla layer cake
• The Inception Valrhona chocolate cake

Monforte Viennoiserie

• Poached pear sando
• Classic croissant with summer pudding jam and whipped brown butter
• Hojicha chocolatine 
• Serrano ham, ricotta and black garlic pain suisse 

Morning Market

• Chocolatine
• Tomato galette with caramelised onion
• Fig leaf crown

Morning Market x Supernormal

• Peanut butter tart with croissant dough, peanuts, milk chocolate

Sebby’s Scrolls

• Classic cinnamon scroll 
• Mini Biscoff scroll
• Mini pistachio scroll
• Mini vegan cinnamon scroll

Tarts Anon

• Matcha, strawberry and rice cream tart
• Ube and passionfruit tart
• Corn and jalapeno tart
• Mushroom and parmesan tart

The Flour

• Easter biscuit box with butter sables, floral shortbread and assorted cookies
• Chestnut cake 
• Hojicha and The Gospel rye whisky dacquoise
• Matcha dacquoise

To Be Frank

• Cherry and pistachio panettone
• Macadamia and wattleseed pastry
• Char siu pork pastry
• Carrot and harissa galette

Urbanstead x Invy Baker

• Black garlic and cheese scroll
• Millionaire’s shortbread 
• Caramelised peach sourdough danish
• Swedish bun