Yummy treats help charity
The Mississauga News
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2008

It’s a chance to stuff your gullet full of delectable treats while helping out an international AIDS/HIV charity at the same time.

Tomorrow, baked goods company Eat My Words will have a booth at Sherway Gardens in the Comfort Zone across from European Jewellery. Staff will be selling a variety of goods, including decorative cupcakes and cookies.

Funds raised from the sale will be donated to the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

You can read the whole article here.

Whose Cupcakes Will Take the Cake?
By Lindsay William-Ross, LAist.com
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2008

The first annual Cupcake Challenge on May 18th will put the lip-smacking in a foodie smackdown. In this event sponsored by CozmoDeck, Fiji Water, and K and L Wine Merchants, 13 of the best local cupcake bakeries–cupcakeries, if you will–are putting on their oven mitts and throwing down the best they have to offer in the hopes of determining whose cupcake is the tops in town.

The event is open to the public, because you will be the judges! Sample tastes of all the cupcakes you can handle, along with a dozen varietals of wine, and have your say in determining whose cupcakes truly take the cake. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The Cupcake Challenge kicks off a summer-long series of local foodie events.

You’ll be tasting cupcakes from: Yummy Cupcakes, Vanilla Bake Shop, Milk, Famous Cupcakes, Hotcakes, Lucky Devils, The Oinkster, Violet’s Cakes, Babycakes, My Little Cupcake, Lark, Essential Chocolate Desserts, and Mrs. Beasley’s.

Cupcake Challenge
Sunday May 18th, 1-4 p.m.
Montmartre Lounge | 6757 Hollywood Boulevard | (310) 709-3969
$60/person [tickets]

Article link here.

INGREDIENTS

For apple cupcake—
2-3 apples, granny smith
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon ginger
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1/2 cup oil
1/4 cup apple juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
green food coloring to desired color

For caramel apple frosting—
4 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
4-5 tablespoons milk
3-4 teaspoons apple vodka, to taste
4 cups powdered sugar, sifted

For caramel drizzle—
1/2 cup evaporated milk
4oz individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped

green decorating sugar

You can see more pictures and complete instructions here.

Cupcake sale supports breast cancer walk
By STEPHANIE GEHRING, Sun Times News Group
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2008

When Caroline Dwan and some friends were forming a team for the Beverly Breast Cancer Walk, the 42-year-old came up with a team name and a whole new fundraiser to help fight breast cancer.

“I thought, we could be the D-cups,” the Morgan Park community resident said with a laugh.

Some of her friends on the team are, like Dwan, well-endowed, she explained.

But from the team name she developed the D-Cups fundraiser to be held in conjunction with Sunday’s 9th Annual Beverly Breast Cancer Walk.

“I thought D-Cups, cupcakes, hey!” she said.

She’s enlisted about 30 women to bake at least a dozen cupcakes each, then decorate the chocolate or yellow cake treats so they resemble breasts - some will be clothed and some will be au natural, Dwan said.

You can read the whole article here.

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Queen of Hearts cupcakes originally uploaded by Not Quite Nigella. Please see her fantastic blog for more pictures and the recipe.

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