Gold Coast 60th birthday celebrations gear up as official cake is unveiled
It has 30kgs of sponge, 20kgs of icing and will feed hundreds. Get your first look at the Gold Coast’s 60th birthday cake. What’s on top will surprise you.
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THE Gold Coast’s 60th birthday cake has been revealed, sporting all of the city’s most iconic landmarks.
All of the most renowned parts of the city — from the Q1, light rail, beaches, hinterland and the iconic red and yellow flags — are featured on top of a 1.7m surfboard cake.
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Goldstein’s cake decorators Janette Crane and Hazel Carpenter have worked with Gold Coast City Council to plan the all-important cake, which will commemorate the city’s celebrations.
“It’s a chocolate and vanilla sponge with jam and cream in the middle,” Mrs Crane revealed.
“It’s taken us about ten hours (so far).
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“We started making it on Monday. All we have left to do is put on some more decorations, which we will do tomorrow, and the six and zero candles.”
The cake weights more than 50 kilograms — including a whopping 30 kilograms of sponge.
It is filled with 1kg of jam, 2kg of cream and decorated with a jaw-dropping 20kgs of icing.
Mrs Crane said it should be enough to feed between 400-500 people.
Ms Crane and Ms Carpenter work full time at the bakery and make a “couple of hundred” cakes on average each week, but none on this scale.
Who will get the honours of cutting the impressive cake on the day is yet to be decided.
It was a good excuse to reminisce for Goldstein’s Bakery, which has been around for longer than the city’s name.
The bakery opened 75 years ago and has watched the city grow.
The Coast picked up ‘Gold Coast’ as a moniker on the back of soaring property prices before the South Coast Town Council adopted it in October 1958.
The name was then formally accepted by the State Government in May 1959.
The Gold Coast’s 60th birthday bash will be celebrated on Saturday with the public invited to attend at Broadwater Parklands.
Gold Coast golden girl Amy Shark will be headlining the musical festivities.
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