Spoon into prepared cupcake tins and bake till cooked – when top of cupcake is lightly pressed and cake springs back (approx. 18 mins).
Cool.
Using an apple corer, take out the middle of each cupcake (approx. 1½ cm deep) and fill with lime curd.
Top with lime cream cheese frosting and remaining toasted coconut.
Lime Cream Cheese Frosting
30g butter, soft 500g icing sugar
250g cream cheese zest and juice of 1 lime
Beat all ingredients until light and fluffy. Pipe onto cupcakes and sprinkle toasted coconut on top.
hank you to the ‘Knitting Circle’ – Claudia, Eva and Hilary – who read some very early, very awful, work and didn’t abandon me. Friendships like our Knitting Circle are rare and beautiful, and if I’ve managed to portray the power of female friendships well it’s because of you. I miss you every day.
Kelly Baker. Your random act of kindness so long ago meant more to me than you’ll ever know, and there you were again, recently, giving me my first writing break, which has made all the difference.
Thank you to my first professional editor, Nicola O’Shea, for helping me find the true heart of Kookaburra Creek.
Shell, El, Max, Georgie and Benison – my writing ‘tribe’. Finding you girls two years ago when this fraught writing journey nearly drowned me was the life-raft I needed. Thank you.
To the team at Penguin – the art department for my stunning cover; the publicity team for getting my baby out there; my editor Elena for polishing my baby till it shined; and my publisher Kimberley for seeing what I see in the people of Kookaburra Creek, and loving them enough to take me on – thank you, all.
Thank you Sonia Lidbury for sharing your medical knowledge in regards to Dean’s story. The wonderful staff at FFPS enthusiastically put their bodies on the line to taste-test all of Alice’s cupcake flavours. Your waistlines might not be thanking you, but I certainly am.
Special thanks to Mishell Currie and Jen Johnson for reading draft, after draft, (after draft), giving me valuable feedback, and being my constant cheerleaders.
Léonie Kelsall, my brilliant critique partner, thank you for your insights and for riding every high and low with me.
To my unofficially adopted mentor, Dianne Blacklock, thank you for being a wonderful teacher, for picking me up when I was down, and for helping me find a way to keep going when I didn’t think I could.
To my mum, Irene, thank you for keeping me grounded throughout this experience and for being one of the strongest women I know.
For her brutally honest feedback, and for believing in my stories from the beginning, thank you to my sister, Karen. We don’t always see eye to eye (ever?), but these last few years, with both my writing and personal journeys, you have been my single greatest source of support and for that I am more grateful than you know.
My long-suffering husband, Chris – without you none of this would be possible. Thank you for giving me the time and space to chase this crazy dream. Now that it’s published you can finally read it and see what I’ve been doing all this time.
And to my daughter, Emily – you show such courage and maturity in the face of the challenges life has dealt you. And for that, in every way, in every day, you are my every inspiration.
About the Author
Sandie Docker grew up in Coffs Harbour. She first fell in love with reading as a teenager when her father encouraged her to take up his passion for books. Sandie decided to put pen to paper (yes, she writes everything the old-fashioned way before hitting a keyboard) while living in London. Now back in Sydney with her husband and daughter, she writes every day. The Kookaburra Creek Café is her first book.
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