The Good Friday Appeal raises funds for the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, with Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) hosting the Kids Day Out and the Channel 7 Telethon.
This year, the Good Friday Appeal raised $25,268,485.
As part of the Kids Day Out, 12 MCEC pastry chefs devoted 48 hours to preparing 500kg of spiced chocolate dough to make a 40m hot cross bun display comprising 6,000 hot cross buns.
The half a tonne of dough included 90kg of chocolate chips, 220kg of flour and 500 eggs.
“There’s so much joy in creating something special that brings families together, and doubling the length of our hot cross bun table this year was an exciting challenge. We wanted every bun to feel like a little moment of delight,” said MCEC’s executive pastry chef, Alessandro Bartesaghi.
All 6,000 hot cross buns sold out within hours.
“We are incredibly grateful for the generous and long-standing partnership with MCEC, who have been supporting the Good Friday Appeal for 12 consecutive years,” said Good Friday Appeal executive director, Rebecca Cowan.
“Their commitment goes above and beyond, by generously providing in-kind venue hire for all GFA requirements and hosting the return of the Channel 7 Telethon at MCEC.”
The Good Friday Appeal supports research, care and equipment at the children’s hospital.
