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<\/p>\nA thousand baking enthusiasts, a thousand cakes, all in one room.<\/p>\n
What could go wrong?<\/p>\n
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Sheridan O\u2019Malley arranged a huge cake swap event in Brisbane.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n
For Sheridan O\u2019Malley, who was running these cake swap events, plenty.<\/p>\n
Now bakers say they\u2019re out of pocket, with no cake to show for it.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Malley is a self-proclaimed stay-at-home dog mum who spends most of her time in the kitchen baking.<\/p>\n
She gained popularity on social media when her business, Doughy Events, held the viral Let Them Eat Cake swap where dessert lovers paid $35 to bring their own cake and swap it for slices of others.<\/p>\n
![\"Sheridan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b22ad0eaa5d5ca6daaf7664d20472531bf09c1e8009e9dd3c2d8c29879ef0be1.png\")
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Sheridan O\u2019Malley is big on TikTok\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n
O\u2019Malley promoted the event on TikTok <\/a>saying, \u201cWe have a thousand cakes coming this Saturday in Brisbane<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n Baking enthusiast Katherin Phillips is among those who turned up to the event with high hopes until it descended into complete cake chaos.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were using their hands. Then they were moving on to the next cake and some of them were licking their fingers,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cakes were absolutely smashed to just crumbs. There was cake on the floor. There was just cake everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n Baking enthusiast Katherin Phillips is among those who turned up to the event with high hopes until it descended into complete cake chaos.\u00a0Nine<\/p>\n Multiple complaints were lodged with Queensland Health, triggering a council food safety investigation and a barrage of hate online. <\/p>\n Cake fans also want refunds.<\/p>\n Unfortunately for Phillips, she\u2019d already purchased a ticket to O\u2019Malley\u2019s next event, a Brisbane cookie swap.<\/p>\n She says the screenshot showing a refund of $20 never showed up in her account.<\/p>\n Phillips cut her losses until she noticed more food swaps popping up nationwide, only to be postponed or cancelled.<\/p>\n \u201cI just thought this has got to stop,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n O\u2019Malley did not want to answer any of A Current Affair\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n Watch the full story in the video above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A thousand baking enthusiasts, a thousand cakes, all in one room. What could go wrong? Sheridan O\u2019Malley arranged…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-827063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Baking](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7871edd16e84ec5f95088882e3b33016c14d49d40eaffdc9817daf50f0b5a31d.jpeg\")
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