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title: "Not much news about?  Well, here instead is a splendid albicake for World Albatross Day!"
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# Not much news about?  Well, here instead is a splendid albicake for World Albatross Day!

![Macca chef cake](https://acap.aq/images/WAD2021/Macca_chef_cake.jpg)

 *Chocolate mud cake by* *Nick Baker, Chef, Macquarie Island Research Station, photograph by Simon Payne*

 The aptly named[Nick Baker](https://www.antarctica.gov.au/news/stations/macquarie-island/2021/this-week-at-macca-may-7th/) is the current chef at the [Macquarie Island](https://acap.aq/news/news-archive/60-2013-news-archive/1347-breeding-sites-no-19-macquarie-island-a-recovering-sub-antarctic-world-heritage-site) Research Station.  A veteran of nearly three winters he contributed his masterpiece, presumably virtually, to the [Australian Antarctic Division’s Albicake Bake Off](https://acap.aq/latest-news/4088-the-australian-antarctic-division-supports-world-albatross-day-with-a-new-banner-and-an-albicake-bake-off) in recognition of [World Albatross Day](https://acap.aq/world-albatross-day/wad2021-ensuring-albatross-friendly-fisheries) last month.  [He writes](https://www.facebook.com/AusAntarctic/photos/pcb.4297624846922499/4297599186925065/) “The nest is a chocolate mud cake with raspberry gelato albatross, covered in crispy meringue in the shape of a light mantled albatross.  Adorned with white chocolate ‘poo’ splatters surrounded by grasses of the green sponge.  I was inspired by the fluffy cuteness of the Sooty Albatross chicks on the slopes around Macca.”

  ![Nick Baker Billy WallaCE](https://acap.aq/images/WAD2021/Nick_Baker_Billy_WallaCE.jpg)

 *Nick Baker on Macquarie Island, photograph by Billy Wallace*

 ACAP is relieved to note that “No albatrosses were harmed in the eating of the cakes.”

 [https://www.facebook.com/AusAntarctic/photos/pcb.4297624846922499/4297599186925065/](https://www.facebook.com/AusAntarctic/photos/pcb.4297624846922499/4297599186925065/)*John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 02 July 2021*