bake sale!!!

this past saturday we held the Cookies for a CURE bake sale. the few days prior to the event i blasted it all over facebook, made a Yelp event for it, and texted all of my friends to come out and support. the benefits go to Leukemia/Lymphoma so i figured nobody would be opposed to exchanging their dolla dolla bills for delectable (i hope) goodies. i had already rounded the troops, so.....

it was time to bake! tuesday was salted caramel day. i made 4 batches! if you don't know what making caramels are like then let's just leave it at a hot sticky mess....with a burned finger or two. wednesday was furikake party mix day. this was easy but i also had to cut parchment papers for the caramels and cut and wrap each one. thursday was more caramels day. i made another two batches because i figured they were delicious and might potentially be a big sell (?) (at the end of the bake sale i was still left with about 4 batches worth. i guess baked goods beats out caramels. what do you do when you have too many caramels? make caramel sauce!!). friday was intense. i woke up at 7am and baked three loaves of banana bread, two batches of smores brownies and one batch of coffee pecan brownies. then i went to work, came back at midnight and baked two batches of red velvet cupcakes and two batches of lemon bars. whew! (thanks Stefan for putting up with the loud electric mixer at 2am!!!) i finished at about 330am and went to bed.

packed and ready to go!!

the morning of the bake sale i woke up at 7am unable to go back to sleep due to excitement for the days event. i opened the window to see a gloomy cloudy day and my heart sank. nobody goes to the park on a cold day. nobody at the park=nobody to buy baked goods (insert sad face). but what can you do? everything was baked and i'd already almost forcefully made a bunch of my friends come out and support me. so the show must go on.

as we drove to Dolores Park (my favorite park in the world) the clouds began to break and the sun shined through. i am pretty sure i was redeeming whatever good karma i've got! at this point i became re-excited for the bake sale.

we set up shop and got going around noon. Jessica had a few signs to attract attention and Kim came with her baked goods later in the day. we had all kinds of goodness. Jessica's friend made some pretty flowery vanilla cupcakes which hooked in all of the little girls. another of Jessica's friends, also named Jessica, made some walnut brownies. i had the salted caramels, furikake mix, red velvet cupcakes, lemon bars, smores brownies, coffee pecan brownies and banana bread. and kim came with chocolate chip cookies, white chocolate strawberry blondies and maple bacon donut type things. if i walked up to a table like that i would probably clean out my wallet buying every single item. i was pretty happy with the outcome of everything thus far.

as the day progressed and people began showing up, it became more and more fun. when you put time and effort in to something and people reciprocate it's kind of an amazing feeling! it was fun talking to random strangers who came to buy goodies as well as hanging out with all of my friends. it was fun running around the park with a bake sale/support Leukemia/Lymphoma sign and soaking in the sun. at the end of the day we counted our donations and i was hoping to have made about $250. i'm happy to say that we made $368!! it's not a large amount in the whole scheme of things, but every little bit counts, right??

"look i'm magic! now buy something sweet"

he took his shirt off to attract the gays. and she's cute so she attracted the fellas. 

and then she bartered a brownie for a hotdog.

my broham and Darrick

Appa pants!!

the bakers and the inspiration

we made $368!!! (and counting)

thanks to everybody who came out this weekend!  the bake sale went swimmingly well!! thank you Jessica for giving me the inspiration to even have a bake sale. your efforts are so admirable. thank you Kim for baking those amazing maple bacon donuts and other things. i know you're busy, but with food and friends, you always make time!! thank you Kris for making the Cookies for a CURE flyer. i know if you could have made it you absolutely would have! thank you Ize, and B and Ciara for running around the park with the sign to promote the bake sale! thank you Stefan for, too, running around the park with the sign, putting up with the 2am mixing, and the support! thank you Dana, Adrian, Tan, Alaina, Erich, Lionel, Linda, Augs, Darrick, Jeremy, Jason, Jon and anybody else who came out to support. and thank you to the strangers out there who came by and trusted that we weren't going to poison you with our home made yummies.