When you get something right, there’s no need trying to improve it. That’s why the recipe for Monarch Cakes’ Polish cheesecake has stayed the same for a century.
It was Pearl Levine and her family who brought the famous recipe from Poland to Melbourne. “She was a Jewish woman from Poland who came to Australia as a refugee. She had a cake shop in Poland in the 1920s, and she had a shop in Carlton, [called] Monaco, until 1934, until Jimmy Watson’s family bought her up,” explains Gideon Markham, the current owner of Monarch Cakes.
