Image: Beth Hoy/Instagram
Hidden behind willowing green trees is the Happy Valley chapel, home to a community-focused recycled goods, coffee and cake store.
Junktion is part op-shop, part café, part neighbourhood meeting place, with regular opening hours during school terms and seasonal community gatherings throughout the year. Now, the space is getting a very special guest for the month of May, and only on Saturdays.
Adelaide based baker and The Great Australian Bake Off 2025 winner, Beth Hoy, is bringing her handmade bakes to Happy Valley through her newly launched business, The NeighbourHood Baker.
The NeighbourHood Baker is centred around artisan baked goods and cakes to order, the venture brings Beth’s warm, creative and small-batch approach to baking closer to home. Beth made her mark on the 2025 season, winning Star Baker three times and impressing everyone with her grand final creations including a top-forward cake, raspberry and chocolate entremets and a show-stopping choux creation.
The 2025 season featured 12 amateur bakers, with Rachel Khoo and Darren Purchese returning as judges to evaluate creative bakes over ten weeks.
Beth isn’t your average home baker and her recent market cake offering shows just that, with decadent flavours including toffee apple, passionfruit with macadamia and vanilla, lemon with blackberry and pistachio and carrot cake with candied pecans.
Her pop up at junktion will also include her indulgent cookies, with a standout being her white chocolate and pistachio cookies. With a creamy sweetness, buttery richness and a crunch of pistachios nobody will want to miss.
Images via Junktion and Jamie Rowe
Junktion is a charming hidden gem within the Happy Valley community, founded by Pixi Johnson in 2012 and profits fund youth oriented projects and training. The boutique shopfront has grown from a derelict Sturt space into a warm local hub filled with pre-loved fashion, homewares, books, bric-a-brac, coffee, cake and conversation.
“We are a non profit op shop and coffee shop that supports a small mission organisation ATS (Access The Story),” Pixi said. “We offer the community a space that provides affordable op shop goods (none of our clothing is over $10) and a safe space to sit and have a coffee and sweet treat.”
Beth is no stranger to the Junktion, as she’s done a couple of pop ups at the community fairs they hold three times a year.
“The down side is her cakes are so delicious I always end up buying more than I need,” Pixi said. “Her carrot cake is out of this world.”
Junktion is open Tuesday to Friday from 9.30am to 4pm and Saturday from 9:30am to 12:30pm.
Beth’s awarding winning cooking skills are sure to make her treats sell out pretty quickly, so get in before the cakes fly out.
The Neighbourhood Baker at junktion
When: each Saturday in May
Where: 72 Candy Rd, Happy Valley (corner of Candy Rd and Chandlers Hill Rd)
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