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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the Morning. Sam. It's forty years

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Speaker 1: since the Australian Women's Weekly released its children's birthday cake cookbook.

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Speaker 1: Forty years so I was seventeen eighteen when this came out,

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Speaker 1: So I don't have a childhood of this, but as

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Speaker 1: a mother I flicked through this many times. Our birthday cakes,

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Speaker 1: but not these highly decorated specific ones. I'd have a

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Speaker 1: chocolate cake or something like that for my birthday, but

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Speaker 1: not the ones. I mean, look at these. The dolly.

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Speaker 1: You get a doll and you make her skirt out

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Speaker 1: of marshmallows.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my mum made that for my sisters many times.

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Speaker 2: She Yeah, that was Actually, you've got to be boring us.

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Speaker 2: Not the princess cake, olive the legs.

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Speaker 1: These are highly elaborate, some of these. What about this

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Speaker 1: duck that had chips for a mouth and popcorn for.

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Speaker 2: My mum made that for my sister as well. Really, yeah,

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Speaker 2: the girls will get the elaborate cake and we just

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Speaker 2: get you know, what would you get. We'd get a bunt,

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Speaker 2: you know, the bunt. Yeah, that was a decorated Well

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Speaker 2: he's just around and do you a racetrack or something

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Speaker 2: like that? See.

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Speaker 1: I used to take it.

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Speaker 2: Well, the swimming pool that.

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Speaker 1: Was really elaborate. The swimming one is really tricky. There's

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Speaker 1: I've got a picture of that in front of me.

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Speaker 1: It's got sort of chocolate logs around it and green

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Speaker 1: jelly on the inside, a little figurine.

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Speaker 2: Helen made that for Morgan's first birthday really all those

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Speaker 2: years ago, and had the jelly, and it cost about

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Speaker 2: one hundred bucks to make. Well.

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Speaker 1: I used to take it very seriously. I felt it

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Speaker 1: was a rite of passage of duty as a mother

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Speaker 1: to make the birthday cakes when the kids were little. Actually,

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Speaker 1: Liam was only two the same week that Jack. No,

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Speaker 1: he's three, when Jack turned one. So I figured what

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Speaker 1: you could do, because it's just for the photo really,

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Speaker 1: for Jack's first one, you pretty much get a piece

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Speaker 1: of polystyrene, cover it with some icing, and put some

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Speaker 1: Smarties on it in the shape of a one, and go, look,

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Speaker 1: remember I made that for you.

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Speaker 2: Notice a scept for Jack. You'll eat anything.

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Speaker 1: The sound of it was way through it. But I remember,

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Speaker 1: I think it was when Liam turned three, or might

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Speaker 1: have been Jack turning three, and Harley and I made

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Speaker 1: a very elaborate big number three and so you get

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Speaker 1: two rings. And we did a farmyard scene and we

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Speaker 1: had even like a little mirror that a swan was on,

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Speaker 1: so it looked like it was on a little lake,

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Speaker 1: and little plastic cows. We even had a squashed It

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Speaker 1: was a chocolate sultana and it looked like a cow poo.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: We went all out. But then I started working here

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Speaker 1: with you. Remember this year you shamed me because I

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Speaker 1: was working here. I had two children under the age

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Speaker 1: of five, and I bought a decorated what was it,

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Speaker 1: SpongeBob or something, and you said, not good enough?

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Speaker 2: What are you doing?

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Speaker 1: And I was horrified that you shamed me.

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Speaker 2: I said, I tell you what, let me help you

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Speaker 2: out here. It wasn't shaming. I said, I'll let you what.

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Speaker 2: I said to Limb, what cake would you like see?

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Speaker 1: And he said, spider Man, Jonesy takeover from your mother.

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Speaker 1: It was terrible, but.

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Speaker 2: He said he wanted spider Man. Then he said he

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Speaker 2: wanted Shrek. I said, what about Shrek? You like Shrek?

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Speaker 2: I could do your Shrek cake.

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Speaker 1: So shrink Cake went to great lengths to talk about

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Speaker 1: this Shrek cake. You were going to up me in

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Speaker 1: the cake steaks.

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Speaker 2: Blah, blah blah.

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Speaker 1: I didn't. I, well, you made such a fuss of it.

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Speaker 1: I was very anxious. I thought, if you bring in

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Speaker 1: a beautifully turned out cake, you know how competitive you are,

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Speaker 1: it just would have crushed me.

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Speaker 2: And wasn't it.

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Speaker 1: It was the most hideous thing I'd ever seen. It

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Speaker 1: was exactly looked like someone had vomited up a Shrek cake.

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Speaker 2: It looked like Shrek.

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Speaker 1: But this kind of these elaborate cakes, they are they

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Speaker 1: can be the making or the un making of This

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Speaker 1: is the stuff of nervous breakdown.

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Speaker 2: Well you that one that Helen made for Morgan's first birthday.

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Speaker 2: When you look at it, all the efforts. She was

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Speaker 2: in tears making this stupid cake. He's one and we

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Speaker 2: were living in Woolengong at the time, so we had

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Speaker 2: to drive up from Woollongong in a cardinal air conditioning

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Speaker 2: with gelatine in a cake.

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Speaker 1: It's not gonna work what we put ourselves through.

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Speaker 2: Jonesy and Amanda in the morning,