Her book , The Pavlova Story : A Slice of New Zealandâ s Culinary History , says that the first Australian pavlova recipe was made in 1935 , and the recipe in the rural magazine NZ Dairy Exporter Annual was made in 1929 . Her book , The Pavlova Story : A Slice of New Zealandâ s Culinary History , states that the first Australian pavlova recipe was created in 1935 while an earlier version was penned in 1929 in the rural magazine NZ Dairy Exporter Annual .