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,
Cake baking process. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain. During the Great Depression, there was a surplus of molasses and the need to provide easily made food to millions of economically depressed people in the United States. One company patented a cake-bread mix in order to deal with this economic situation, and thereby established the first line of cake in a box. In so doing, cake as it is known today became a mass-produced good rather than a home- or bakery-made specialty. Later, during the post-war boom, other American companies (notably General Mills) developed