Toronto Bakes for Japan was a success!

Wow, thanks so much Toronto for coming out and supporting Toronto Bakes for Japan.  They raised over their $10,000 goal.  Toronto Bakes for Japan made over half of it on Saturday at Brickworks Farmers Market and the rest on Sunday at Liberty Noodle, The Rivoli, Cafe Diplomatico and Cafe Amaranto.

There was so many awesome baked goods, from butter tarts to brownies, savoury tarts and biscuits, cookies and of course cupcakes.

Here's a little round up of the goodies.

Little Purse cakes from Sweet Things TO

More Sweet Things TO

And More

Bunny Sugar Cookies

Savoury cookies from Fashion Food

Hundreds of Cupcakes from Shastacake

Hello Kitty sugar cookies from my new friend Sam

Gluten Free Macarons

Cake Pops from the  Cake Pop Shoppe

Sushi cake from Alice's Cakes

Tons of other great stuff, of course what I brought.  I made butter tarts, rocky road brownie cupcakes and Hello Kitty and Japan chocolate fudge cupcakes with buttercream icing.

Brownie cupcakes and butter tarts (in the back)

Thanks Toronto,

February Favourites

I only have a couple days left (as it's Feb 26th) for being lazy and still being able to do my Friday Favourites on whatever day I please.

I found some pretty good stuff this week. So please check it out.

• Found this really cool cupcake pop mold from My Little Cupcake. It's too bad that they are doing so well, (well it's really good) but because of low inventory they are not selling outside of the U.S. nor accepting non-US paypal accounts.  I have a mailing address in the US and I can't even buy one and send it there. :(
• An awesome Instructionables on how to make your own cream eggs.
• If you haven't already checked my post on Andie's Specialty Sweets, you should definitely check them out. 
• Finally, I found a great video on how to ice your cupcakes just like Billy's Bakery in New York (P.S. I can't wait until August as I get to go to NY for the first time, I'm totally doing a crazy cupcake crawl while there).

Hope everyone has a great weekend, time to make some mini's for an order. Chocolate and Blood Orange, yummy!

Enjoy!

Bakerella is coming to Toronto!

The Queen of the Cake Pop is coming to Toronto.  Bakerella will be at the Williams-Sonoma downtown on December 4th, she's never been to Canada before, can you believe that?!  I'm so sad that I can't go as I have a craft show in Parkdale.

But...if you are around you should head over and maybe you can take my book for me and get it signed.

Here's the info:

Williams-Sonoma
Saturday, December 4 th at 12:00 p.m.
100 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON

Baby cake pops I made for a baby shower