Beechworth Bakery Beechworth Bakery Beechworth Bakery is a company owned chain of bakeries located in destination towns in regional Victoria and NSW. Beechworth is located in Northeast Victoria, Australia, north of Melbourne and from the twin cities of Albury and Wodonga which are situated either side of the Victoria – New South Wales border. Beechworth Bakery was established by Tom O'Toole in 1984 when he bought the "Ideal Café" and turned it into a bakery. It has since expanded to have outlets in eight other towns in country Victoria and one just over the border in New South Wales – Ballarat, Bendigo,
Tunis cake Tunis cake A Tunis cake is a Madeira cake topped with a thick layer of chocolate and decorated with marzipan fruits. It is traditionally eaten at Christmas. The origins of the cake are Edwardian. Scottish bakery Macfarlane Langs produced commercial Tunis Cakes in the 1930s, and when they merged with McVitie & Price in 1948 to form a company called United Biscuits (which still owns the McVitie’s brand) the recipe passed to the new company. McVitie's produced a Tunis cake until the mid 1980s. It is now sold seasonally by some supermarkets in the UK. An early recipe does not