Anyone who has ever given blood via Red Cross Blood Service know that joyous feeling of refueling with cookies from Byron Bay Cookie Company, the service’s official partner. It’s like blood and cookies go hand-in-hand now, and that partnership has just been kicked up to the next level by Sydney’s famed Three Blue Ducks (specifically, the one in Rosebery). The cafe has come on board the International Missing Type campaign, which aims at raising awareness of the need for Australian’s to donate blood, by running a temporary service by which people can come along to discover their blood type with the Red Cross Blood Service, pledge to give blood, and eat a specially made dessert that has been designed in partnership with Byron Bay Cookie Company.
The official cookie of the Red Cross has been given quite the makeover with this cookie creation, making use of sticky date and mandarin pudding with chocolate ganache, Byron Bay Cookie crumb, and some vanilla bean ice cream. As you can see from the headline image, chefs Mark Labrooy, Darren Robertson and Andy Allen aren’t messing around when it comes to dessert.
The International Missing Type campaign has seen Byron Bay Cookie Company and Three Blue Ducks join iconic names around the world as they drop the key blood type letters (A, O, and B) from their names to encourage Australians to consider what it would be like if their blood type went missing. It’s a big push from the Red Cross as to meet patient needs (a blood donation is needed every 24 seconds to provide life-saving treatments) and service needs 100,000 new blood donors to give blood for the first time over the next year.
The Byron Bay Cookie Company Dessert will be available at Three Blue Ducks Rosebery from 16 – 21 August. To find out more about giving blood go to www.donateblood.com.au/missingtype
Three Blue Ducks Rosebery
Address: 1/85 Dunning Ave, Roseberry
Hours: Tues-Fri 7am-2:30pm; Sat-Sun 7am-3pm
Image supplied and used with permission.
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