On Saturday, I spent nearly eight hours in my kitchen baking treats for Portland’s Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale. It was a gorgeous sunny day, but that didn’t stop me from laboring away amidst clouds of flour and scoops of sugar. In fact, it only motivated me further since I could open the windows and listen to melodic, chirping birds.
One of my favorite tips for making big baking sprees go more smoothly is to prepare your workspace first:
I like to put all of my ingredients, mixing bowls, utensils, and recipes out on my table before I start. Eventually the rows of jars become a scattered mess, but at least I don’t have to run back and forth between my cupboards and work counter.
Here is what I ended up making:
Pizza rolls filled with bell peppers, spinach, marinara, and Follow Your Heart mozzarella;
Lemon cupcakes filled with lemon curd and frosted with lemon cream cheese frosting;
Hello Vegan Bars (recipe in Let Them Eat Vegan by Dreena Burton) – oaty/coconutty cookie crust with caramel, chocolate, pecans, and coconut;
Biscochitos – a snickerdoodle with crushed anise seeds in the dough (recipe also from Let Them Eat Vegan);
Double chocolate mint chip cookies and ginger cookies
Tim and I dropped everything off at the bake sale Sunday morning. Unfortunately, I was so concerned about transporting the cupcakes safely that I forgot my camera. There was an absolutely gorgeous array of baked goods to choose from; we ended up with one of Kittee’s pretzel dogs, a cupcake from Dovetail Bakery, and a s’mores brownie. Everything was hit-the-spot delicious. And, the sale raised over $2,400!!! Success!
Great job! Everything looks spectacular. I’d been seeing tweets and updates about it and was super jealous not to be able to partake :)
Thanks Maud! I love bake sales because it’s an opportunity too see everybody’s talents all at once!
omg! i didn’t even realize you made cookies too. you are a baking star! thank you so much for all your hard work. xo kittee
Hahahaa! Yeah, I admittedly went a bit crazy, but mass baking is incredibly calming!!
Wow!! You made SO much amazing stuff!! That’s wild! It all looks so good, but man those pizza rolls are genius! I must make some for myself! Also, how incredible that you all made so much money – congrats!
Thanks Amey! I really liked your recent post about toast. It made me think back to my childhood and all the peanut butter and jam toast I would eat before bed. Happy memories!
The photos look so yummy!!!
Thank you, Madison!
ohgoodgolly your treats look sooooo good! Did you have leftovers? Can I buy some buy mail…sort of a Worldwide Vegan Surplus Sale? :)
Leftovers? What are those?!
lol…what was I thinking?? ;)
I’m pretty sure my heart just stopped! In a very good way…
Now I want Let Them Eat Vegan even more!
You totally rocked it, that looks like an awesome spread of food. Congrats on helping raise so much money!
Okay all of these sweets look amazing! Those lemon curd cupcakes… oh how I need to make those! I’m trying not to eat processed sugar or gluten for a month and these treats are making my mouth water! bwah!