A few final words of trivia...

Remember that delivery of supplies we started with? And the top ups along the way? Well now that the dust has settled it's time to count the stock...or rather the empty bags and containers!

And with that we can confirm that if you'd like to bake 37 670 biscuits, you will need 8kg bicarb, 352kg butter, 215.5kg desiccated coconut, 2l vanilla essence, 430kg flour, 230kg rolled oats, 240m baking paper, 525kg sugar and 97kg golden syrup.

Piece of cake...measure, mix, roll, bake and pack, allow around 11 days. Wrap it up with about 2km of ribbon and tie in a giant bow!!!

And the winner is...

Congratulations Tamika Butler!

A voucher for use at either the Tearooms or Car Yard Café is yours for correctly identifying all the flags in this year's Flags of Our Blogs competition.

Since the start of the competition we have also seen visitors from Indonesia and New Zealand on our blog, we hope to see you all again next year.

And the final tally is...37 670 biscuits!!!!

Fantastic effort and thank you everyone - whether you helped with the baking or bought biscuits in this year's Anzac bake - well done!

All that remains now is to do an enormous cleanup of the building...

The very last portions for this year,
Debbie, Karen, Beppi and Jonathan.

The end of a sticky situation,
Carol preparing the last few mixes.

Chris and Bryce rolling in the kitchen.

And Louise and Layla doing the same one more time in the pantry.

Close the door quietly behind you...and bake!
Sia doing the last shift on the ovens.

And here they come, one last time.

Let the lifting begin, Matthew with the first batch.

Interesting concept in packing here...

David, Michael, Julie and Cherie waiting for the
biscuits to be cool enough to be packed.

Kiosk on the Council lawns,
Juley, Sam, Debbie, Karen and Beppi.

Private Eric had just taken some leave.

But Private Dallas was marching over to take his place.

And here's the last tray for this year!!!
Layla bringing it out whilst the kitchen crew looks on.

And finally...thank you from the Phantom Blogger - to everyone who happened to be in the right or wrong place at any time and provide all the material one could ask for in photos and words. And a thank you to everyone for following the bake through this blog. See you again next year!

Don't get too comfortable, there's more orders to go!

But where are all the helpers? Bit light on people today, the ones we had worked very hard though judging by the end of day tally.

What did we say about light on workers?

We have a phantom blogger, but now it seems we also have

phantom bag preparers...Veronique holding the fort.

Veronica adding some labels.

Garry concentrating on the gumnuts.

And Laurie taking a turn at Brice.

This team knows of hard work, Viva and Eric rolling in the pantry.

And Bronte only has eyes for the job too.

  

All that hard work is paying off says Anita.

And here they come!!!

Jennifer and Julie at the packing table.

Always ready to stop for a photo, 

Matthew with another bag ready to go.

Butter fingers Karen???!!!

And it would have been a perfect biscuit too.

Well, we won't think of her too harshly - after all these days of hard work, this is day 10 after all. Afternoon came and we did it all again.

Allacia and Louise at the butter table for the last time?
That will depend on how many more orders we get!

David, Rod, Wayne and Shane,

more ribbon please!

Skye and Luke showing no signs of
slowing down in the kitchen.

And business as usual in the pantry too,
Jannie and Garry.

Veronica doing her favourite job of lifting biscuits to cool.

While Beppi and Gary count and pack.

And so does Carol on the other side.

Look, we've found a helper for Veronique this afternoon...
Finishing off the bags with Debbie.

Whilst in the kitchen cleaning starts again...

Kelly and Mathew cleaning Brice and washing up.

Ready to go out the door they were...

Last chance in the morning to order your biscuits and get your competition entry to us! Look forward to hearing from you, good night all.

Words of remembrance

We'd like to ask you to take a moment and reflect on the sacrifices by so many, and read about our history and traditions.

https://www.army.gov.au/our-history/traditions/the-ode

An old favourite...

...to keep all you Anzac biscuit affectionados going over the weekend!

Help!

Help! We need workers.
Here they are, the last group of Vodafone helpers arrived and got to work.

Help! We need ingredients.
Missing in action, one truck, driver and order.

After some frantic phone calls a new one was despatched, but not before the Tearooms were relieved of every grain of sugar they could spare!

And thus the bake was saved and continued...

Pleased to meet you! Final group of Vodafone volunteers
are here and ready to go.

Cat and Tony decimating the butter...

into 140g portions of course.

Mathew, Karen and Tom threading gumnuts - as fast as
they can the packing table take them!

Seeing the bottom of the gumnut tray! 

Rebecca concentrating on threading.

Kelly and Rod in the dry mix corner, 

counting till 10 takes on a whole new meaning here.

Luke's done the counting.

Shane, Janine and Brian working with Brice.

Is Jennifer all on her own here in the kitchen?

No, she's not, Josef and a few applicants for the ovens.

The pantry is business as usual too, Stacey and David
with a fresh bowl of mix from the kitchen.

Nena's no stranger to this job either.

Concentration at the lifting table, Layla and Jacquie.

Not me says Anita, one strategically placed tray...

Virginia and Tahnee at the packing table.

With Jeremy and Ollie opposite.

Joel with another tray ready for...

Beppi and Karen who are a little swamped but
they didn't let the pressure get to them and calmly worked on.

Julie proudly showing the morning's effort, all of which have
since been loaded into the van for delivery.

What evidence can be gained after lunch? And what has this morning frenzy done to the tally board? We shall find out later!

It is here!!! 

More orders...including one going to Queensland.

Hard work at the butter table, Joel, Rebecca and Stacey.

Janine on the other side.

Rod working on labelling the bags.

Tony, Jonathan and Wayne, teamwork!

Chris and Josef on the other side also threading gumnuts.

Dry mix measuring and stirring - Jeremy and Tom.

Layla adding bicarb to another batch for Brice.

Ollie rolling in the pantry.

Jacquie, Tammy and Jennifer

also in the pantry for the afternoon.

Serious work here, Mathew at the lifting table.

Rachel packing with assistance from Karen.

And that makes 10 - Rebecca.

Look at all those bags on the table behind these ladies!

Sylvia and Cat have been busy this afternoon.

And that folks is it till next week - a day and a bit of baking left to do...we can do it!!!

A quick reminder to finish the week, the Flags of Our Blogs competition winner will be announced on Tuesday, get your entry in quick! Click on the link below for competition details:

Flags of Our Blogs Competition