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Kylie Hides

Meet the cake artist of Kylie's Cupcakery.

Kylie Hides of Kylie's Cupcakery (image supplied)
Kylie Hides of Kylie's Cupcakery (image supplied)

Diet? What diet?! Who has time for that when there are cakes and cupcakes that exist for us to eat! It’s probably also worth noting that Thursday 27 January 2022 is International Chocolate Cake Day (you’re welcome). So here is your sign to treat-yo-self! And to do exactly that, we know exactly where to get your sweet fix! It’s called Kylie’s Cupcakery, and no doubt you’ve already seen it on your social feed. Yep, an entire shop dedicated to all your craving desires. We got to know the famous Kylie Hides, the woman behind the business and the cupcakes.

How long have you been a Gold Coast local?
I have been a local for 24 years and counting.

Tell us a bit about you.
I left school at 16 as I struggled with severe dyslexia and the teachers at the time failed to understand. I started working in kitchens and went to Tafe to become a chef. Now with almost 23 years of hospitality experience and a passion for art, I have combined the two to become a cake artist. I started a cupcake and cake business in a small location on Lavelle Street in Nerang, I outgrew that spot within a year and have now opened a new restaurant in Nerang with a twist. We still make our famous cupcakes, cakes, and desserts but we’ve also expanded to add burgers, wings, popcorn prawns and more as a fun breakfast or lunch venue for families, complete with a cupcake display that holds 500 cupcakes and a kids area.

Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

What makes running a business on the Gold Coast so great?
I have so many lovely families that come in all the time, some of the kids I have made cakes for since before they were born, as in doing their mums baby shower or gender reveal cakes and cupcakes, to now creating cakes for their 1st birthday all the way up to their 6th as I started this business out as a home baker almost 7 years ago. We have such a wonderful local community on the Gold Coast and with everything going on I would like to think it’s made some of us closer.

What’s the creative process behind some of your cake creations?
Every cake is like a painting there is a foreground and background colour palate. I never know the final design until the cake is finished. I can say though it’s 90 percent of what I think about.

How long does it take to create a cake from start to finish on average?
On average 3-4 hours. I make about 15-30 cake orders on the weekends and everything is made fresh so means some days I start any time from 10pm – 3am just to complete that day’s orders.

Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

Currently the creation of cakes are trending on social media. Why do you think this is?
I have built up a social media following from years of hard work and content creation. We also have loyal customers who have followed and supported our journey from our first home business in Carrara, through to the move to Upper Coomera, then we insanely opened a storefront as the pandemic first hit in 2020 to now being in our bigger family-friendly cafe/restaurant venue at 58 Nerang Street in Nerang. I also think people are shocked at how good or life-like something can be and also made out of cake.

If you had to pick, what is your favourite cake/cupcake you offer and why?
I have one, that believe it or not, is low-gluten and vegan, the funny thing is if I tell people that, they are reluctant to try it but once they do they are in love. It’s a rich chocolate fudge brownie cupcake. I don’t have a cool name for it yet, as it’s pretty hard to mix the words brownie and cupcake to sound cool. My second favourite and probably the most popular is a Biscoff and Vanilla Cupcake with Biscoff buttercream.

What does a typical day in your life look like?
I normally wake up about 1-2am, get ready for work and Uber in (I don’t drive, I never have in my life). Turn on the oven and make a Merlo coffee then my day starts. I try to bake as much as I can until I have staff commence shifts from about 6am, they help me ice everything then I try my best to work on my cake orders and back up my restaurant team. Then after we close, I make sure I have everything I need for the next early start. Race home to spend some time with our 2.5 year old son Kaiben before he wants to go to bed. I have been putting in the hard yards to make this business successful so my son can have a better life. I spend every minute I am not at the shop with him and my husband. And after two years of running the business during the pandemic with highs, lows, happy times and moments of thinking it will all come crashing down, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel and it is all paying off!

Biscoff and vanilla cupcake, Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Biscoff and vanilla cupcake, Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
That would be opening during the first Covid lockdown, using our life savings to get the business off the ground, going from a home baker with low expenses to employing staff and having so many overheads, but continuing to improve and grow the business in leaps and bounds, no matter what has been thrown at us. We have adapted to survive with everything that has happened.

How do you define success?
My business has come a long way but it is still far from what I want to achieve to be the success it can be. However, I find success every single time a person or child comes to collect their cake for whatever celebration it’s for and their eyes light up and the excited comments they give back. That’s what gets me through the day, knowing they will remember and tell the story of that cake and celebration for years to come.

How will you be celebrating International Chocolate Cake Day?
The display will be filled with variations of chocolate cupcakes including my signature chocolate recipe plus low gluten, vegan and low-gluten vegan cupcakes. I will also have my chocolate fudge brownies that sell out as soon as I post they are available and I am creating a chocolate cake-shake, which is a cake blended in a thick shake with a chocolate cupcake on top!

Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

What are you looking forward to the most about 2022?
I look forward to competing again in events such as the International Cake Show (in May) held in Brisbane, with lots of international artists now able to come back and compete.

What are your Gold Coast favourites…
Café: I’m a pretty big fan of Paddock Bakery
Coffee spot: Merlo Coffee House at the Brickworks Southport
Restaurant: The Glenelg Public House would have to be my favourite
Bar or pub for a drink: The Nerang RSL. I have a special connection with this club, as it’s where I met my husband. The staff and members are all very welcoming.

How do you choose to spend your weekends?
Weekends are my busiest days with some Saturdays and Sundays being 17 hours long working but when Sunday is finally over, I can’t wait to sit at home with our son and play with garbage trucks and watch his favourite movies enjoying family time.

The Coast’s cult cupcakery opens a sweet new store

Have you ever tasted something so good you’d be willing to line up for hours just to make it yours? If so, you’ll understand just how mouth-watering said thing must be and if not, read on.

Kylie’s Cupcakery began as a humble, at-home cupcake business within which the lady of the moment Kylie would create custom cupcake and regular cake orders for weddings, birthdays, Christmas, Easter and the like. But the thing is Gold Coasters, these cakes and cupcakes weren’t your usual run of the mill variety.

Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

Nope, they were the kind that would be ordered in their hundreds every single day until the demand got so big that Kylie had to move into a standalone space and that friends, is the point of today’s tale.

The new space can be found on Lavelle Street in Nerang and if you’re not sure where that is, you can simply drive around until you see a huge line of people standing underneath a big pink sign. Every single day Kylie’s is open without fail.

Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

Why? Because Kylie’s cupcakes are something very special. Not only are they absolutely beautiful to look at (and take Insta snaps of), they taste like sugary little clouds of goodness that you could eat five of before you even blinked.

Flavours change all the time but Kylie posts on socials to let you know what will be on offer that day. Not that it really matters, they’re all so, so tasty and you should absolutely buy one of each (at least).

So what flavours are we talking exactly? Well, how does Lemon with Elderflower Buttercream sound? Yep. Chocolate Banana Sunday maybe. Caramel Popcorn, Unicorn (complete with edible glitter), Chocolate Mocha with Merlo coffee, the list is endless and Kylie says she comes with up with ten new flavours a day that she doesn’t even have time to create.

Biscoff and vanilla cupcake, Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Biscoff and vanilla cupcake, Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

There’s also a Unicorn Shake that is more a work of art than anything else.

While you’re there, you can grab yourself a coffee and sit outside in the sunshine to devour your cupcakes, or take them home to sample slowly (they last up to a week in the fridge).

As you’d imagine, Kylie has won countless awards for her creations and never fear, if you miss out on the goods, she’s planning on opening a second space sometime in the future. In Palmy would be great thanks Kylie.

Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Kylie's Cupcakery (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

What are you waiting for?

Head in for a sugar high of the very best kind.

LOCATION: 6 Lavelle St, Nerang
HOURS: Open from 10am Wednesday to Friday, 9am Saturday and 7am Sunday

Words and photos by Kirra Smith

15 spots to snap up sweet treats on the Gold Coast

Quad Choc Cookie, Custard Canteen (image supplied)
Quad Choc Cookie, Custard Canteen (image supplied)

Are you the kind of person who skips right to the desserts page of a menu? Yep, well, you’re not alone. Taking tactical consideration of what sweet things can and will follow is a clever move by anyone’s standard. Luckily we are spoilt for choice with sweet treats and desserts on the Gold Coast.

Why not seek to fix that sweet craving you have? Here’s our list of the best places on the Gold Coast to grab a dessert, worthy of that extra time on the treadmill!

Tarte Bakery & Tarte Beach House
As if all self-control didn’t already tank at the mere sound of the word Tarte, our reigning pastry queen Chloe Watts went all out earlier this year to bestow upon us a knockout second site – Tarte Beach House #havemercy #we’reweak. The chic sister venue bringing Tarte’s trademark goodies to the banks of Currumbin’s picture-perfect creek, and in the process, blowing the bar previously set by our OG dessert darling out of the water.

We’d stop at ‘muffin’ to get our hands on the signature Crueller, or a Raspberry, Strawberry & White Chocolate Muffin Top, or.. okay basically everything they’re churning out. Which begs the question, can one ever have too much Tarte? We think no.
Where: 2 West Street, Burleigh Heads and 2 Thrower Dr, Currumbin

Tarte Bakery and Cafe (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Tarte Bakery and Cafe (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

Oh My, Waffle
Make no mistake about it, if you find yourself in and around Burleigh Heads and are hit with a hankering for something sweet, head directly to Oh My, Waffle to have your mind (and calorie intake, lbh) blown –#ohsoworthit.

Prepare those ravenous, post-surf appetites to meet their match at the sight of some seriously loaded waffles and thick shakes. Though word to the wise – you may need to waddle home afterwards.
Where: Shop 6 / 1837 Gold Coast Highway, Burleigh Heads

Oh My, Waffle (image supplied)
Oh My, Waffle (image supplied)

My French Pastries
Husband and wife duo, Jen & Antonio Marchesi are the French maestros behind some mighty salivating goodies at this Robina bakery, and what these folks don’t know about sweet and crunchy European desserts frankly isn’t worth knowing!

Don’t delay. Head along for the shiniest looking caramel eclairs and the flakiest known pain au chocolats this side of the equator — Bon appétit!
Where: Shop 5/361 Robina Parkway, Robina

My French Pastries (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
My French Pastries (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

Custard Canteen
Is a breakfast dessert a thing? If it’s not, we’re officially calling it. And if you find yourself down by the ever-majestic Tallebudgera Creek dipping in its crystal clear waters, we suggest you hot foot it right away to Custard Canteen.

Get into some great coffee — and a bacon & egg burger to end all burgers — before rounding things off with one of their ooze-tastic cookies or the flakiest of Portugese Tarts. YUM!
Where: 1525 Gold Coast Highway, Palm Beach

Portugese Tarts, Custard Canteen (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
Portugese Tarts, Custard Canteen (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

Bam Bam Bakehouse
Inventive, indulgent, and darn tasty in every department: Bam Bam Bakehouse is the goods — period. The line of sweets and desserts are nothing short of mesmerising (even attracting the likes of Margot Robbie and Matt Preston).

With so many mouthwatering morsels on offer, attempting to choose only a couple of them is a challenging feat (as is not allowing ourselves to immediately to scarf down the lot).
Where: 2519 Gold Coast Highway, Mermaid Beach

Bam Bam Bakehouse (Image supplied)
Bam Bam Bakehouse (Image supplied)

D Point Ten
Bringing an exclusively sweets-based offering to the GC’s sea of swole and shredded rigs surely required a seismic leap of faith, but any sceptics are now eating humble pie thanks to D Point Ten’s growing donut empire.

These days, their dough-licious conquest of the Coast spans across three official outlets – Pacific Fair, Varsity Lakes and Hope Island – with northern residents now also able to get their hands on the seductive looking donuts at sando sister venue, Janus Deli.

The delectable flavour rotation includes the likes of Golden Gaytime, Ferrero, and S’mores, all of which keep us wanting more. Whip out a box of these bad boys at your next gathering, and watch how fast you become everyone’s bestest bud.
Where:  Hope IslandVarsity Lakes, Molendinar and Pacific FairBroadbeach Waters

The Caramilk Doughnut, D Point 10, Varsity Lakes (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)
The Caramilk Doughnut, D Point 10, Varsity Lakes (Image: © 2020 Inside Gold Coast)

Paddock Bakery
One of the Gold Coast’s game-changing cafes, the level of baked and sweet goods that these guys consistently punch out is utterly jaw-dropping.

If you haven’t treated yourself to several (hundred) coffee dates at one of the cutest mini-Queenslander’s gracing the GC… welcome, you must be new here?! To remedy this immediately, we suggest you get together some of your nearest and dearest and get in on some brunch action before you launch a full-scale attack on the cracker assortment of sweets.

Be sure to try the crowd-fave Biscoff Cheesecake Doughnut or their whopping 1kg Giant Cookie! (Remember, Mum says sharing is caring.)
Where: 20 Hibiscus Haven, Burleigh Heads

White Choc & Caramilk cookies, Paddock Bakery (image supplied)
White Choc & Caramilk cookies, Paddock Bakery (image supplied)

Franquette
If you live in or around Tamborine, and haven’t yet wrapped your mitts (and tastebuds) around some Franquette… frankly, it’s time to re-evaluate your priorities (unless you’re gluten-free, obvi, in which case, commiserations).

Under the expert eye of master baker Jérôme Favier, Franquette (pronounced Fraen-ket) assuages hinterland hankerings with authentic French-style sweets, rolls and scrolls, and of course, the ever-crescent croissant.

They’ve teamed up with the Tamborine Mountain Gelato Co. gang to bring us ‘The Gelaffin’… a freshly baked cruffin loaded with small-batch gelato – aka the most glorious ice cream sandwich you’ve ever laid eyes upon. Officially our new favourite franken-food obsession for summer. Brain freeze (and bulk satisfaction) incoming.
Where: 1/159 Long Rd, Tamborine Mountain 

The Gelaffin by Franquette and Tamborine Mountain Gelato Co. (image supplied)
The Gelaffin by Franquette and Tamborine Mountain Gelato Co. (image supplied)

Basque
We’ve been giddy over Basque since the gorg new specialty bakehouse-cum-sippery sauntered into Chirn Park earlier this year, bearing mind-blowingly good cheesecake and French champagne. Umm, did we just become best friends?! Two of our very favourite modes of celebration under one chic roof – consider us, and our ‘coffee and cake catch up’ standards, spoiled forevermore.

Owners Laura and Zach Guertin devised the dreamy concept in answer to the age-old conundrum, ‘what should I bring?’ – and yeah, we can attest, one taste of Laura’s incredible creations and you’ll forget alll about the box of Favourites.

Luckily for the lot of us, we need not wait for a special occasion to partake in their signature Spanish Cheesecake and Champagne selection, with both available by the slice, and glass – any old time you please to cheese.
Where: 33b Musgrave Avenue, Chirn Park

Cheesecake at Basque, Chirn Park (Image: © 2023 Inside Gold Coast)
Cheesecake at Basque, Chirn Park (Image: © 2023 Inside Gold Coast)

My Favourite Baker
The very aptly named My Favourite Baker is one beloved among locals as a lifeline for incredible, last-minute cakes (that look and taste anything but).

The GC’s everyday cake heroes ‘crumb’ through with the (baked) goods – delivering same day turnaround on their delectable range of cakes and cupcakes almost every day of the year. Saving our bacon bakin’ from all kinds of sticky, special occasion situations, ‘logistical oversights’ and baking fails – with rave reviews, might we add. Phew! *backs slowly away from the packet mix*

Forgotten occasion? What forgotten occasion?

Only bulk brownie points to be found here (shhh.. it’ll be our little secret).
Where: 4/1 Inventory Ct, Arundel

My Favourite Baker (image supplied)
My Favourite Baker (image supplied)

Aux Fines Bouches
For devout pastry buffs (there’s an oxymoron in there somewhere – and hats off to anyone who manages to be buff, and a pastry enthusiast simultaneously) we do éclair, Aux Fines Bouches is the place to be.

This place is really not flaking around – run by decorated French pastry chef, Richard Le Deunff – locals in the know can’t get enough of the authentic, buttery baked-goods they’ve been doling out since 2019.

An unassuming space tucked away in Burleigh’s industrial outskirts, with a window where you can marvel at the culinary wizards whipping up the delectable works of art. Meticulously crafting tarts, cakes and custard-laden pastries Wednesday through Sunday, with a level of obsession matched only by that of our enthusiasm for consuming them.
Where: 2/43 Taree Street, Burleigh Heads

Aux Fines Bouches (Image: © 2019 Inside Gold Coast)
Aux Fines Bouches (Image: © 2019 Inside Gold Coast)

Cheeky Waffles
This naughty noshery has been getting sweet lovers hot under the collar since they burst onto Surfer’s nightlife strip, boasting a decadent and debaucherous range of genitalia-shaped desserts.. that also leave the sweet cravings totally satisfied.

The novelty (and priceless bants) of a choc-dipped coochie or pecker-shaped waffle might be too good to pass up, but don’t be tempted to write them off as a ‘one-time thing’. This place is the whole package, with the famously soft and fluffy waffles (described as ‘the best I’ve had’) the kind that keep lip-licking locals coming back for more.

Swing by and get yourself a ‘sugar daddy’ for happy endings all round.(in case you were wondering, no, we’ll never tire of writing about this place).
Where: 3189 Surfers Paradise Boulevard, Surfers Paradise

Sugar Daddy, Cheeky Waffles, Surfers Paradise (Image: © 2023 Inside Gold Coast)
Sugar Daddy, Cheeky Waffles, Surfers Paradise (Image: © 2023 Inside Gold Coast)

Madisons Cafe & Patisserie
A name that certainly needs no introduction among cake fans, alas no GC sweets list worth it’s salt sugar would dareth omit local mainstay, Madisons. The Broadbeach institution has long been hooking us up with our daily coffee and cake needs, with the sight of their specialty cakes becoming somewhat of a staple at our celebrations over the years.

The online ordering process is as dreamy as the buttercream (no phone call necessary, millennials rejoice) simply build your own from the options on offer – oh alright, make it a caramel mud + vanilla buttercream, since you asked (and smattering of gold dust, if you don’t mind.)
Where: Ground Floor, Oasis Shopping Centre, 12 Charles Avenue, Broadbeach

Madison's, The Oasis (image supplied)
Madison's, The Oasis (image supplied)

Dipcro
All hail the buttery king-of-pastries, the mighty croissant (controversial? We think not). Chevron’s debutant sweet-snackery, Dipcro delivers our sweet fix in the form of artisan baked goods like Cinnamon Buns, Croissants, Mille Feuille and Palmiers.

The venue’s namesake and signature item (a play on the words ‘Dip’ and ‘Croissant’– à la, ‘Dipcro’), invites us to take the blessed croissant to a whole new level – served with an array of signature toppings & fillings for your dunking pleasure. Oh if we must.
Where: 55 Thomas Drive, Chevron Island,

Dipcro Pastry, Chevron Island (Image: © 2023 Inside Gold Coast)
Dipcro Pastry, Chevron Island (Image: © 2023 Inside Gold Coast)

Captains Candy
The childhood rite of passage that was letting loose on the local pick and mix may merely live on as a fond, yet distant (albeit a little more distant than we care to admit) mem these days, but luckily us locals can venture to Captains Candy to fulfil even our most obscure candy cravings. The willy wonka-vibing wonderland inconspicuously tucked away in Ashmore’s outlet precinct, fully loaded with floor-to-wall goodies (including a hefty selection of international faves for our expat friends).

You need not *only* leave with a sugar rush, you can also stock the pantry with slightly more responsible provisions such as hot sauces, pickles, seasonings and rubs while you’re at it.

Whatever lolly your heart desires, it’s almost guaranteed you’ll find it here (even some formerly erased icons.. shout out green frogs and spearmint leaves).

Responsible adults to chaperone our candy expeditions, apply within.
Where: 12 Central Park Avenue, Ashmore

Words by Kellie Leader.

11 of the sweetest Gold Coast bakeries

The Pastry Emporium

Oh baked goods, why do you taunt us so. Taste sensations, tick. Better with butter, tick. Comforting when cold, tick, tick, tick. They’re almost too good to be true but, as demonstrated below, they are true and there are Gold Coast bakeries galore which is just fine by us.

Here’s a list of the top 11 bakeries within which you’ll find said exceptional baked treats and happy carb loading Coasties.

Custard Canteen
By the insanely talented team also behind Bam Bam Bakehouse, Custard Canteen is the newest of the bunch, serving up absolutely next-level Portuguese custard tarts, almond croissant tarts, the gooiest of cookies and various breakfast and lunch goods. Find them down Talle Creek way and good luck floating gracefully once you’ve sampled a few (thousand) of those.
Where: Tallebudgera Recreation Centre, Gold Coast Hwy, Palm Beach

The Pastry Emporium
While it may be a slightly fancier version of the good old fashioned bakery, it is still in fact, a place where goods are baked and some of the most incredible goods you’ve ever tasted at that. Now with two convenient locations, The Pastry Emporium creates magical, almost other worldly cakes and desserts while also whipping up a croissant you would probably die for. They also do the breads and the coffees and if you moved in there, we wouldn’t judge you. Please invite us over.
Where: Shop 2, 90 Markeri St, Mermaid Waters and 4/28 Campbell St, Bundall

Bam Bam Bakehouse
Needing no introduction is Mermaid’s Bam Bam Bakehouse – creators of the most original baked treats the Gold Coast has ever seen and the absolute love of our lives if we’re honest. Known for creations such as Gaytime Eclairs and Ink Gin Choux Bomb, it’s another level of baked treat magic and everything tastes more delicious than you could possibly imagine.
Where: 2519 – 2521 Gold Coast Hwy, Mermaid Beach

Paddock Bakery
Hidden amidst a little garden oasis is Paddock Bakery, a café/garden wonderland in Miami also cranking out insane baked goods. How about a Milo Milkshake donut? Yah. Wagon Wheel donuts are also a thing and baby Nutella bots are the real deal. The donut selection changes all the time but there is always something available to blow your dessert loving mind. And your other minds.
Where: 20 Hibiscus Haven, Miami

Fosters Bakery
A Nobby’s institution, Fosters has been serving up the baked goods dreams are made of, for many a year. Their pies are some of the best around and we may have been known to indulge for breakfast, lunch and dinner many days running. Classic pastries from Fosters are also always a good idea, there’s vanilla slice, custard tarts and donuts and you should absolutely get one of everything.
Where: 1/2227 Gold Coast Hwy, Mermaid Beach

Burleigh Baker
For the love of sourdough, this place is the goods. We are quite partial to the olive sourdough, because olives are life but there are many varieties, all of which are the perfect addition to a warming soup and/or lathered with butter. Oh and all their sourdough is of the organic and artisan varieties AND they do incredible cakes like a Raspberry and Pistachio with honey frosting and honey caramel drizzle. Two please.
Where: 13/50 James Street, Burleigh Heads

Custard Canteen

Fuel Bakehouse
So many delicious things come out of this delightful place you guys. Some of the best doughnuts around, tasty delicious pies that are quite large and very filling, croissants, danishes, all of the very best things. There are two Fuel Bakehouse locations so you need not worry about missing out. And you absolutely don’t want to miss out.
Where: 44 Currumbin Creek Rd, Currumbin Waters and 39-45 Tweest Coast Rd, Cabarita 

Coolangatta Pie Shop
Pies are one of Gods greatest gifts to all of us, particularly at 3am after a night of tearing up the dance floor. Conveniently, the iconic Coolangatta Pie Shop is open 24 hours a day on the weekend for literally all of your late night/early morning baked good needs. It’s one of lifes greatest luxuries right on our doorstep. There’s also tasty sweet treats and we recommend the Macadamia Slice thingo because caramel.
Where: 50 Griffith St, Coolangatta

Gumnut Café/Bakery
Oh god there are donuts and they are A M A Z I N G. Cream filled and caramel topped, we have died and gone to donut heaven. Nothing else matters. Except there are also pies and they are so good and everything is made fresh on the premises and by people who care that you are happy with their baked goods. Which you will be. Did you know Mudgeeraba is also a heavenly, away-from-the-city paradise you should definitely visit ASAP? Yep.
Where: 25 Swan Lane, Mudgeeraba

Horner’s of Sorrento
Horner’s was born from a passion for the smell of freshly baked bread and that is something we can get behind. Their particular type of baked magic comes in the form of artisan breads, from pull aparts to French sticks, and some of the very best sweet treats around. We’re particularly partial to the Melting Moments and the Lemon Meringue Pie, oh yes. We could eat all of these things all of the days.
Where: Sorrento Shopping Centre, 20 Bundall Road, Bundall 

Flour of Life
People of the plants rejoice, these amazing folks make all the baked goods without all the gluten, meat, dairy and egg bits. That’s right friends, it’s a vegan bakery with all the incredible treats you’ve come to know and love. Think donuts, cakes, slices, pies, all the most delicious things. We have it on good authority (ours) that the donuts are absolutely next level and pretty as an Insta picture too.
Where: 22-32 Siganto Drive, Helensvale

Words by Kirra Smith

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