Twelve wallet-friendly yet wow Mother’s Day ideas

Roses are red, violets are blue, a memorable Mother’s Day is not hard to bash – astatine slightest not this year. From DIY gestures that are besides wallet-friendly to a cooking people highlighting little-known dishes to a container of saccharine treats by immoderate of the city’s champion bakers, you tin hide flowers and chocolates. These gifts volition wow.

Gelato-filled bon bons from Piccolina are stunning yet wallet-friendly gift.Supplied

Piccolina bon bons

Not excessively big, not excessively small, these mightiness beryllium the Goldilocks of saccharine treats. Shattery cocoa coatings, including achromatic cocoa and almond, springiness mode to Piccolina gelato fillings with arsenic galore layers arsenic mum. There are hemispheres of pome compote and cinnamon gelato, a gooey peanut butter-caramel number, oregon understated pistachio. The cute 1960s packaging seals the deal.

$45 for container of 5. Pre-order astatine piccolinagelateria.com.au oregon acquisition from immoderate Piccolina store portion stocks last.

Queen Victoria Market is putting connected a precocious beverage for mums.Supplied

High beverage astatine Queen Victoria Market

Chances are you’ve taken mum to precocious beverage earlier – but astatine a bustling nutrient market? That’s bound to beryllium remembered. Primo caterers Tommy Collins are putting retired tiered stands successful the Queen Victoria Market’s C shed each time Sunday. There’s cinnamon knots and smoked salmon-filled croissants for the meal crowd, past digit sandwiches, citrus meringue tart and much astatine lunch, positive mimosas, effect and juices from the marketplace each day.

$85 (food and drink), Sunday, May 12 10am-noon oregon 1pm-3pm, C Shed, Queen Victoria Market, Queen Street, Melbourne, qvm.com.au/mothers-day

Maker and Monger makes it casual to cook scones with its DIY kits.Kristoffer Paulsen

Maker & Monger scones pack

Prahran Market’sMaker & Monger is renowned for food (and slayer toasties). But this Mother’s Day is each astir scones. It’s selling DIY kits of top-quality ingredients – similar Gippsland Jersey buttermilk and salted butter, and Rodolphe Le Meunier creme fraiche – truthful you tin cook your champion astatine home, utilizing a look fromFlour & Stone’s Nadine Ingram. Mum volition besides get a transcript of the latest Swill Magazine, positive you tin adhd connected vino.

$55; $110 with wine. Pre-order at makerandmonger.com.au for pick-up from May 9 to 12 astatine Maker & Monger.

Chef Almay Jordaan volition tally a people cooking dishes from her homeland, South Africa.Supplied

South African cooking people with Almay Jordaan

Does your mum get a footwear retired of expanding her look repertoire? Book her (or the full family) into a peculiar store by Almay Jordaan, caput cook and co-owner ofNeighbourhood Wine andOld Palm Liquor. She’s bringing her South African practice to Brunswick Kitchen to stock however to marque dishes similar fragrant Cape Malay lamb curry with savoury doughnuts, and Old Palm’s signature flatbread with labneh and sumac.

$140, Saturday, May 11, 5pm-7pm, Brunswick Kitchen, 1/288 Albert Street, Brunswick East, brunswickkitchen.com.au

A container of saccharine treats from Mietta by Rosemary (centre), Drom (left) and Hatter and the Hare to past mum each day.Carmen Zammit

Desserts of the Day box

Three breathtaking sweet-treat purveyors are pooling their expertise for a one-off Mother’s Day dessert container that volition person her full time sorted. Breakfast is croissants (mandarin-almond and reddish velvet) by Paul Kennedy ofbuzzy Bayswater bakery Drom. Lunch is barroom slices (including the celebrated eight-layer carrot creation) by Rosemary Andrews, the ex-Attica pastry cook behindMalvern barroom store Mietta. And to finish? Petits gateaux, oregon small French cakes, by Robyn Curnow of The Hatter & The Hare.

$115 for a container of six desserts. Pre-order at hhcafe.shop for pick-up connected May 12 betwixt 11am and 3pm astatine Drom, Mietta oregon The Hatter & The Hare.

Kids tin marque mum luncheon with minimal fuss utilizing Brunetti’s DIY pizza kits.Lauren Sadler

Brunetti Classico kid-friendly cooking kits

Letting the kids escaped successful the room to navigator connected Mother’s Day isn’t ever the champion idea. But with Brunetti’s elemental DIY pizza and gnocchi kits, results (and, OK, possibly a small mess) are practically guaranteed. Each kit comes with 2 serves of prepared gnocchi and pizza dough that’s acceptable to cook, positive accompaniments: toppings for margherita pizza, and vibrant herb condiment for gnocchi alla sorrentina.

$40 (gnocchi) and $30 (pizza). Pre-order astatine brunetticlassico.com.au oregon connected 03 7034 7066 for pick-up successful Carlton oregon delivery.

Dine astatine D.O.C for a bully cause

If carbs are the mode to your mum’s heart, there’s nary amended spot to triumph her implicit than D.O.C, spinning artisan pizzas since 2004. On Mother’s Day, each portion you devour volition dispersed the emotion beyond your table: the squad are donating $1 from each pizza sold to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, backing probe successful Australia. Better bid different capricciosa.

Locations successful Carlton, Mornington, St Kilda, Southbank, docgroup.net

Noisy Ritual successful Brunswick East is doing a Sunday roast.Cam Grove

Four banquets that won’t interruption the bank

On Sunday May 12, Collingwood brewery edifice Molly Rose is doing athree-course acceptable paper for $55; Balaclava’s Moonhouse hasall-you-can-eat yum cha (which it’s calling “mum cha”) for $59; West Footscray’s Harley & Rose is serving a generous spread of antipasti, woodfired chickenhearted and furniture barroom for $75 (or $20 for kids); and Brunswick East’s Noisy Ritual is doing a four-course Sunday roast headlined by slow-roasted sumac chickenhearted (or baked celeriac) positive unrecorded jazz for $50, a large mode to cheque retired caller cook Mertcan Dogusgen (ex-Attica, Little Andorra).

And 1 that might

No precocious opened edifice is arsenic grandiose and glamorous arsenic Reine & La Rue, the Nomad’s radical reimagining of the Melbourne Stock Exchange, named best caller restaurant successful The Age Good Food Guide 2024. For a lavish celebration, publication the multi-course Mother’s Day feast served stock benignant beneath the cathedral ceiling, implicit with beauteous bits and pieces you tin adhd connected erstwhile you book. There’s your prime of Le Salon Aux Fleurs florals, Aesop gifts, oregon a container of six macarons for immoderate other sweetness.

$220, Sunday May 12, luncheon oregon dinner, 380 Collins Street, Melbourne, reineandlarue.melbourne

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