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,

Wordless Wednesday

Enjoy!

Toronto Bakes for Japan - Only 4 days away!

I can't believe Toronto Bakes for Japan is coming up so quickly. This Sunday I will be at Liberty Noodle from 11 am to 3pm, please come by to help raise funds for Japan Earthquake Disaster Relief.  Not only will I be there with some butter tarts and chai latte cupcakes but, Juanita from Sweet Things TO and Jennifer from the Fashionista Foodie (plus many more) will have their goodies there for you to come buy for only a donation.  Some of Toronto's best bakers will be there and you can get their goodies for only a fraction of what you'd normally pay.  Deal!

Not only will there be baked goods but also raffle prizes and pieces of artwork to be auctioned off and some live music.  Let's make this a great bake sale! Please join us at any of the bake sale sites listed below.

Hope to see you there!

Friday Favourites

Wow, I haven't posted a Friday Favourite in almost a month. I got a couple of good ones so check them out!

• Just bought this awesome looking book called Sugar Baby, can't wait to get it in the mail.
• Great looking Red Velvet crepes over at Duh-licious.
• New website for Goodies Gourmet Soaps.
• I've been loving these cakes by Andrea from Andrea's SweetCakes' for quite awhile, I'd love to take one of her classes.
• Don't forget about Toronto Bakes for Japan, happening the weekend of April 9 - 10th.

Hope everyone has an amazing weekend, hopefully we'll have some nice Spring weather here in Toronto.

Enjoy!

Goodies Gourmet Soaps

I'm so excited, I finally have the website up for my business Goodies Gourmet Soaps.  Please show some support and head over to the site just to check it out.  We've been working on the site for a long time making everything from scratch (takes longer when you're not a computer programmer, or really know nothing about computers).

Ice cream cone  

I love soap

Sugar cubes

Enjoy!

Jumbo Cream Filled Cupcakes

Wow these were some awesome cupcakes.  I have made these cupcakes before from Martha Stewart's Cupcake cookbook but this time I used some amazing cocoa powder from Askinosie Chocolate which put them over the top.  I took these to work and one of the ladies said that they were the best cupcakes she ever had.  I think it was because of the sour cream and the cocoa powder.

These cupcakes were light and fluffy (not just the cupcake but also they were filled with marshmallow fluff) and super moist.  Plus the batter tasted awesome which is always a clue that the baked version will turn out just great.

I made regular size cupcakes as I think a jumbo would be a bit too much with the chocolate and marshmallow filling.  They also go great with a cup of tea. For the recipe click here.

Batter

Awesome cocoa powder

Cupcake

Filled

Messy inside

Cupcake Kitchen Photo Shoot

I always get my "professional" pictures taken by the same person. I love the photographer's sense of style and artistic direction.  Today I had a photo shoot with my photographer Marc aka mk:photographics, instead of doing our regular photos of cupcakes (that I usually make) we used me as the main focal point of the photos.

In the end, I love the photos! They turned out exactly how I wanted them to.  Love the colours and how the three pictures tell a story.  My only issue is that I can't decide which one is my favourite.  What do you think?

Enjoy!