Melbourne’s baking scene has taken another turn into the unexpected, with cult favourite bakery Miilk Cake Studio unveiling a cake inspired by a snack aisle staple just in time for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival.
The Honey Soy Cake leans into the city’s appetite for playful flavours, combining sweet and savoury in a way that feels both odd and oddly right. Built on layers of vanilla sponge, the cake features a buttercream infused with fresh honey and Japanese soy sauce, creating a balance that sits somewhere between dessert and snack. It’s finished with a crumble of honey soy chicken chips for added crunch.
The flavour comes out of Miilk’s Dream Flavour Competition, which invited locals to submit their own cake ideas. After hundreds of entries and weeks of testing, the team landed on honey soy as the standout.
The result is exactly what you’d expect from a city that treats baking as both craft and experiment. It’s unconventional, a little nostalgic and designed to spark curiosity as much as it satisfies a sweet tooth.
If you want to try it, timing matters. The cakes will only be available in-store across Saturday March 28 and Sunday March 29, with a limited run of just 50 made for the weekend. Once they’re gone, that’s it.
Miilk has built a reputation on this kind of approach, mixing family baking traditions with Southeast Asian influences and a willingness to push flavours further than most.
Miilk is at 166 Swanston Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Visit the website at https://www.miilkcakestudio.com
