About us

2012 we busted into the Night Markets like bulls in a china shop, we had no idea what we were doing but it was fun like playing shops and people took pity on us and brought our food so we kept going back.

Originally selling hangi & steamed pudding.  The pudding that takes 3 hours to cook started selling out within minutes so we added my favourite dessert that was just stuff I threw together one day and it was so delicious I still make it today:

A banana, that I always sprinkled with sugar but there was none so I used the Russian fudge gone wrong made with the left over condensed milk from the salad dressing, Dads plain az biscuits smashed up in a bag & mixed with my special ingredient that I put with everything, cream whipped by hand & that was it, didn’t even have chocolate.

That simple bowl of stuff with no name put us on the map! We soon had people lining up waiting for this pudding we’ve called banana thingy, banana cream caramel, sort of banoffee without the coffee & eventually a banoffee but it’s not technically a banoffee, but the other names were to long for the sign and who cares it’s yummmmm!!

I’ve been baking since I was too little to touch the oven but I touched it anyway. I had one of those hand powered egg beaters, a green Tupperware bowl, half the ingredients missing and I cracked the whole Edmonds cookbook then I moved on to these cards I think they were free with a magazine new ideas or womens day or something like that, but by the time I left primary school I could make everything in the Edmonds cook book and all those cards from memory, I probably still can but over the years I have changed the recipes and made them my own to my tastes or to whatever is in the cupboard and those are the recipes we use now.

Next. Fresh cheesecakes, made my way that are not technically or traditional a cheesecake but they are a damn good bowl version of a fresh cheesecake. We added indulgent ingredients to create never seen before flavours = we couldn’t make them fast enough so we ditched the hangi, put down the vegetable peeler and never looked back!

Biggest regret? We should’ve called it Mama’s Puddings. Since we opened the shop so many people have come in asking for cakes especially birthday cakes but we don’t sell those cause we’re not really a dessert shop we’re a pudding shop that sells bowls of pudding. I thought people were being weird but turns out I’m the weirdo that doesn’t eat cakes and I thought pudding was just that yuck thing Nan used to make at Christmas (sorry Nan) my bad I probably should’ve spent more time reading actual books rather than recipes. 

Mama’s Desserts the dessert shop that isn’t technically a dessert shop but sells simple fresh bowls of pudding with half the ingredients missing or substitute and made in a fantastical way that is completely different resulting is a unique taste and texture that you just won’t get from a recipe follower but we don’t sell cakes or write happy birthday on our puddings 👈to long for the sign! 

Next up recipes  Not recipes for the desserts we sell in the shop.