Bacon takes the cake in Melbourne cafe

THERE’S a Melbourne cafe that’s combining two of our favourite menu items — bacon and cake — and serving it in spectacular style. Just make sure you wear your stretchy pants.

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MEATLOVERS rejoice — a Melbourne cafe is making sure you can order bacon cake and eat it too.

The monstrous 15kg savoury slab is being sold at Port Melbourne’s Third Wave Cafe for the next month, with carnivores travelling from Geelong and Warrnambool to snare a slice.

Cafe owner Greg Rips said the meaty meal was not for the faint hearted.

Jurek Osada gets stuck into a Bacon Cake and a Bacon Milkshake at the Third Wave Cafe in Port Melbourne. Picture: Tony Gough

“There’s a bacon sheet made with woven bacon slices, smoked mac and cheese with more bacon, a layer of burger pattie mix, roasted sweet potato, a layer of two-year-old jack cheddar cheese and slow smoked pulled brisket,” he said.

“There’s eight or nine layers and it’s served in slices.”

To top it off, the cake slice is served with the cafe’s signature ‘oink ball’ (meatball wrapped in bacon), a rasher of candied bacon and bacon floss.

“We set ourselves a task to create a dish people could get behind and talk about,” he said.

“Everyone who has had it has enjoyed it.”

Mr Rips said the cake was so popular chefs were making it daily.

“People who order it are finishing it. The slices are sizeable but most people who eat this type of food come prepared,” he said.

He said the bacon cake was made in an off-site kitchen in 15kg batches.

The cake is then taken to the Port Melbourne cafe in 6kg portions, then divided into sizeable serves.

Mr Rips said the dish wasn’t the healthiest, but something you’d eat on occasion.

“It won’t cause any (health) problems as you won’t be eating it consistently,” he said.

As for the flavours behind the monstrous dish, Mr Rips said there wouldn’t be any surprises.

“All the ingredients are known — you know what a burger pattie tastes like,” he said.

“But together there is this really interesting savoury flavour that comes from the bacon, it almost has umami characters to it.”

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