Sweetfest 2015

Sweetfest Melbourne 2015
Sweetfest Melbourne 2015

If you’re a major sweet tooth, Sweetfest is your kind of festival. It houses lots of renowned patisseries, ice-ceameries, chocolateries, donuteries. Ok now I’m just making up words, but you get the point. There is a plethora of sweetness all in one place, ready to be eaten in abundance.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Hoy pinoy ube and caramel puto
Sweetfest Melbourne - Hoy pinoy ube and caramel puto

Hoy Pinoy had a sweets stall. We know them for their tasty Filipino BBQ but at Sweetfest they had a range of Filipino sweets. They had two types of puto, which is a sweet steamed cake. They had Ube (Purple Yam) and coconut caramel with fairyfloss. They were soft, sweet and delicious.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Hoy pinoy pandan, coconut, sago
Sweetfest Melbourne - Hoy pinoy pandan, coconut, sago

We also had the sago dessert, which had pandan jelly, coconut cream, coconut pieces and crunchy caramel coconut clusters on top. Delish.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Black star pastry strawberry watermelon cake
Sweetfest Melbourne - Black star pastry strawberry watermelon cake

Black star pastry had their famed strawberry watermelon cake, which is popular because it tastes really good. It has a lovely balance of freshness, tart and aromatic tones from the rose petals. They also had peach, blackberry and lavender tarts, which were tasty, the pastry was buttery and short and the filling was fruity and floral.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Black star pastry sweet tacos
Sweetfest Melbourne - Black star pastry sweet tacos

We also had the sweet pastry tacos. One had chocolate ganache and raspberry and the other had marshmallow and green tea ganache. They also had a lemon meringue one that had sold out. They were cute.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Short stop doughnuts
Sweetfest Melbourne - Short stop doughnuts

Shortstop had a special range of donuts created just for Sweetfest. They had a maple walnut brown butter, matcha yuzu lime, red velvet and strawberry crumble available.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Oregano bakery scrolls
Sweetfest Melbourne - Oregano bakery scrolls

The scrolls at Oregano bakery were delicious. We had the cinnamon, cookies and cream and nutella banana. And they were all great. Perfect with a cup of tea.

Sweetfest Melbourne - St Gerrys greek doughnuts
Sweetfest Melbourne - St Gerrys greek doughnuts

St Gerry’s had a range of loukoumades (greek doughnuts) with different toppings. They were delicious crunchy deep-fried dough balls with different toppings.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Redbank Emily Brut Cuvee and st gerrys doughnut
Sweetfest Melbourne - Redbank Emily Brut Cuvee and st gerrys doughnut

On entry you receive a ticket for a complimentary glass of Redbank Emily Brut Cuvee which was nice. They also had some of St Gerry’s greek doughnuts filled with white peach and presseco jelly.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Ganache chocolate christmas santas
Sweetfest Melbourne - Ganache chocolate christmas santas

Ganache had a range of thier specialty chocolates. They had these really cute chocolate snowmen for Christmas.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Gelato messina x Big gay icecream such a fairy paddlepop
Sweetfest Melbourne - Gelato messina x Big gay icecream such a fairy paddlepop

They had a Gelato Messsina truck, unfortunately the mini magic mushroom cake was sold out but we got to try the ‘such a fairy’ paddle pop. It was toast and butter gelato covered in white chocolate and dipped in Big Gay Icecream’s fairy bread sprinkles. Besides the fact that it didn’t taste anything like the fairy bread I know and love, it was a nice sweet icecream pop.

They also had N2 Gelato serving their Ferrero reveal, which is like a gelato version of a Ferrero rocher and Gelato Tino that had interesting flavours like raspberry and rosemary.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Blowtorching my flaming rueben
Sweetfest Melbourne - Blowtorching my flaming rueben

After eating too many sweets (there is such a thing) you get to the point where you just want something savoury. Luckily Maker and Monger had a stall and they were pumping out a range of savoury toasties. We had the flaming Rueben. The guy literally blow-torched the cheese right in front our faces.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Maker and monger flaming rueben and mork chocolate milk
Sweetfest Melbourne - Maker and monger flaming rueben and mork chocolate milk

The melted cheese oozing over the top of our sandwich looked amazing. The Rueben was delicious and was a perfect retreat from all the sweetness. It was salty and sour and cheesey. Loved it! We also had Mork chocolate milk. We figured we couldn’t have a savoury dish at Sweetfest unless it was accompanied by a sweet beverage. The mork chocolate milk was cold and chocolaty. The Rueben reset our palettes so we could continue on eating plentiful amounts of sweets.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Philippas pecan caramel slice
Sweetfest Melbourne - Philippas pecan caramel slice

Phillippa makes amazing bread but turns out she also makes amazing sweets. The pecan caramel slice w orange mascarpone was fab. One of my faves. It tasted buttery and brown sugary with caramel and pecans. Lets just call it amazing. I ate it on the drive home and I wished I had eaten it earlier at the event because then I could have bought more.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Katherine Sabbath live on stage
Sweetfest Melbourne - Katherine Sabbath live on stage

There was lots to do throughout the day, master classes, book signing etc. We got to see the talented Katherine Sabbath live on stage making one of her creative multi coloured drip cakes. They look so awesome and she makes it look super easy.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Naught boy cafe chocolate milkshake
Sweetfest Melbourne - Naught boy cafe chocolate milkshake

The Naughty boy café had a mega choco lova shake. It was a chocolate milk shake with all the trimmings. It had Nutella around the cup with chocolate sauce and strawberry sauce, meringue, dehydrated fruit crumb and Persian fairy floss. They looked pretty epic.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Raw trader white chocolate and salted caramel slice
Sweetfest Melbourne - Raw trader white chocolate and salted caramel slice

From Raw Trader we had the white chocolate and salted caramel slice. It was sweet and creamy and the base had a delicious crumble. I know it had white chocolate and salted caramel but it’s probably the healthiest thing I ate that day.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Bang Bang chocolate donut w side of icecream
Sweetfest Melbourne - Bang Bang chocolate donut w side of icecream

At Bang Bang they had Korean donuts filled with icecream and sauce. I accidentally ordered the plain chocolate one and then had to get the icecream on the side. I tried to eat icecream and donut in the same mouthful to emulate the icecream sandwichness. I guess it was kind of the same. Not really.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Bibelot chocolates
Sweetfest Melbourne - Bibelot chocolates

At Bibelot they had a range of their chocolates that you could try and buy.

Sweetfest Melbourne - Bibelot salted butter caramel eclair
Sweetfest Melbourne - Bibelot salted butter caramel eclair

We got the salted butter caramel eclair, which was super indulgent, the caramel butter cream was divine.

Sweetfest Melbourne - T by Luxbite milo tart
Sweetfest Melbourne - T by Luxbite milo tart

At the Luxbite stall they had macarons, mini cakes and tarts. We had the Milo tart and it was delish. It had a chocolate tart base, filled with a milo choc filling with milo crisps sitting on top. It was super chocolaty and tasted like milo. Yum. Also they had some really cute Christmas gifts too.

They had morning sessions from 9am -1pm and afternoon sessions starting from 2pm-6pm. We went on the Saturday to the afternoon session. There were heaps of great stalls and so many delicious sweets. I must say though it was super dark inside so hopefully next year they get a bit more light into the venue. But overall it was a sweet success. I was majorly sugar crashing later that evening.

I heart Sweetfest!

Olives x

Sweetfest Melbourne 2015
Event dates: 28th November – 29th November
Address: Como House and Garden – Cnr Williams Road & Lechlade Ave, South Yarra
Website: http://melbourne.goodfoodmonth.com/sweetfest
Trading hours: Sat & Sun: 9am-1pm (morning sesh), 2pm-6pm (afternoon sesh)

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