The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book

The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book
Cover of the 1980 edition
AuthorEllen Sinclair and Pamela Clark
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Australian Women's Weekly cookbooks
SubjectBirthday cakes
Published
  • 1980 first edition, ACP
  • 2011 "Vintage edition", ACP
Publication placeAustralia
Pages128
ISBN0949892742

The Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book (or simply AWWCBCB) is a popular recipe book focused on children's-themed birthday cakes published as part of The Australian Women's Weekly magazine cookbook series by Australian Consolidated Press, originally co-authored by the magazine's food editor, Ellen Sinclair, and chef Pamela Clark. First published in 1980 and re-released in 2011, its cultural impact has been variously described as an "Australian cult classic", a "cultural icon" and "national treasure". Between its launch in 1980 and its relaunch in 2011, notwithstanding it having been out of print for a significant portion of the intervening period, the recipe book sold more than a million copies, earning its description as a "publishing phenomenon".

During the 1970s and 80s, The Australian Women's Weekly was among the highest-selling magazines in Australia and published a wide range of titles for cake decorating, recipe and meal ideas in both book and magazine form.