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Bloggers Bake for Hope

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Oatmeal Cream Pies

Don’t those Oatmeal Cream Pies look good? Wouldn’t you love to sink your teeth right into one? What’s that, you say? You don’t live in the New York area, so how can you possibly get your hands on one of these?

Well, if you have the winning bid, you can get your hands on 12 of them!

I am participating in a virtual bake sale Wednesday and Thursday as part of Bloggers Bake for Hope, a sort of silent auction wherein people can bid on various baked goods donated by bloggers. The person who wins each auction then gets the baked goods baked fresh and shipped to them! All proceeds from this virtual bake sale go to the Massachusetts affiliate of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization (the organizers of the bake sale are from Massachusetts).

Beginning at 12 a.m. on Wednesday, May 4 and running through 11:59 p.m. Thursday, May 5, you can place your bid on my Oatmeal Cream Pies or on one of the many other delicious-looking baked goods available by visiting this link. Starting at midnight tonight, the bidding links will go live and you will be able to click to submit your bid.

Be sure to keep checking on the item you bid on, because other people may outbid you and you will NOT get notification.

Here’s to raising money for a good cause and getting baked goods in the mail!

Skull Cake from Threadcakes

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If you haven’t bought a T-shirt from Threadless yet, what are you waiting for? Threadless is a website that allows people to submit ideas for T-shirts and then invites other people to vote on them. Those shirt designs that receive the most votes get printed. The designs can be really intricate and cool, or as simple as a milk carton and a chocolate chip cookie professing their love for one another (I have owned that shirt at one point in my life).

In 2007, a guy named Chris Cardinal decided it would be fun to run a contest that asked people to recreate their favorite Threadless design in cake. And thus, Threadcakes was born.

I haven’t paid much attention to this website in the past, but after seeing a cake today that Boing Boing (you should be reading this blog as well) posted today, I think I’m going to be all over this website.

This is the original design, called “Bitter Teeth::
Bitter Teeth

Bitter Teeth

And this is the cake that Chloe Bird created, using a scientific skull model, food-grade silicon, dental tools and milk chocolate:
Skull Cake

It never fails to amaze me what people can create. This is amazing.

You can read about how Chloe made this cake here.

Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale

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Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale

So my pal Jennifer Prochilo is an awesome vegan chief/baker. She keeps a blog called Good Good Things, where you can read about her vegan goodies and her daughter.

This Saturday, vegans around the world will unite to host bake sales, and I’ve volunteered the only vegan cupcakes I’ve made of which I am super proud: Vegan Root Beer Float Cupcakes.

You can stop by and sample my wares and those of about 20 other bakers. The event will be held this Saturday, May 1 in front of Go Lightly Eco Store at 4 S. Fullerton Ave in Montclair, New Jersey. All the proceeds from the sale will benefit For The Animals Sanctuary and PAWPAC.

The Science Behind Pie Vs. Cake

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From the people who brought you March Madness: Pie Vs. Cake (quick update: Apple Pie is getting ready to go up against Pumpkin Pie. For the love of God, vote for Apple!), comes some great scientific proof that pie is superior to cake.

This infographic is really all you need:
Pie Vs. Cake

But there are so, so many more instances of proof. I think pie is far superior because it lacks frosting. I know this puts me in the minority, but I’m not typically a frosting fan. I usually find it waaaay too sickeningly sweet. I love me some Magnolia Bakery cupcakes, but I usually have to knock half the frosting off before I can eat it. I love cake, I’m not crazy about frosting and sadly, the two are usually found stuck to one another.

Team Pie!

Geeks + baked goods = awesome

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A lot of bakers are geeks and/or nerds, and I’m willing to bet that those who aren’t know a lot of people who are. This falls into my “artists are cooks and scientists are bakers” theory of life. Nerds like precision, and there’s nothing more precise than a cake recipe.

So that brings me to this awesome slide show from geeksugar, featuring baked goods sure to delight your inner video game fanatic/mathematician/Apple enthusiast.

This one is my personal favorite:
Jabba the Hut cake

He’s made out of Red Velvet Cake. Of course.

Magnolia Bakery’s recipe for success

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Investors.com posted an article about Magnolia Bakery, its rise to success and its plans to expand into several cities (including Boston and Chicago) by 2012.

If you’ve spent fifteen minutes talking to me, you’ll know that I love Magnolia Bakery. It’s the reason I started baking. And say what you will about dry cupcakes (I personally think the cake part is amazing, but there’s too damn much frosting!), but if you try something other than cupcakes, you’ll find an amazing assortment of homey baked goods, including an ooey-gooey lemon bar that is just awesome.

I don’t know how I feel about the expansion though…especially a certain line in this article that explains that each bakery will produce the exact same cupcakes as the original NYC location with no local variations. No variations? Ever? That seems weird to me. I firmly believe that every city has its own distinct tastes and flavors that it loves and support. By making the same exact things everywhere, Magnolia might as well rename itself McMagnolia.

I wish Magnolia all the success in the world, and I’m not one of those people that gets upset when her favorite things become accessible to all people, I just want this amazing bakery to become as much a part of their new local neighborhoods as they are in New York.

New York’s Mobile Food Vendors Make Good Use of Twitter

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Bloginity.com has a really great short article on New York City’s mobile food vendors, and how they’re seriously taking advantage of the mobile nature of Twitter.

I remember a few weeks ago I noticed on Twitter that the Wafels and Dinges truck was usually parked at 7th Ave and Carroll Street on Saturday afternoons. That information hung around in my brain for 2.5 seconds and then made a break for it. A few weeks later, my husband and I took a nice long walk down 7th Ave in Park Slope, and as we got closer to Carroll Street, I started thinking, “Hey, didn’t I read something about a truck down here?” Then what to my wandering eyes did appear, but a golden truck parked on the corner.

“Is that…is that…WAFELS AND DINGES???” I cried. It was. And we ate. And the spekuloos spread is amazing. It somehow magically tastes exactly like graham crackers.

Bloginity also mentions The Dessert Truck, Cupcake Stop and the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck, all of which I need to find, as well as some non-sweets mobile vendors.

Keep track of the Wafels and Dinges truck by following them on Twitter: @waffletruck. Oh, hey, I’m on Twitter too! Follow @KieshaK

March Madness: Pie Vs. Cake

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Someone at work was passing around a bracket today for the NCAA stuff, which I know nothing about. I played the football pool once and got in on the Superbowl pool, but lost both times. I generally dislike throwing my money away on stuff of which I have no knowledge (I was picking my football teams based on which mascot would be triumphant in a battle. Steelers Vs. Bears? The bear’s gonna win.)

But a bracket based on baked goods? Now that I can get behind! This is an amazing idea. The Cake Conference vs. the Pie Conference. Readers vote every day to determine the winner.

My final four are Birthday Cake, Red Velvet Cake, Apple Pie and Cheesecake, with #1 Seeded Apple Pie to take the crown!

March Madness

What are your picks? Post ‘em in the comments!

F*cked in Park Slope checks out Fried Irish Car Bomb cupcakes

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Rob and I almost went out to a bar last night for St. Patrick’s Day. We had discussed it, and even found a bar (The Double Windsor) less than two blocks away that was serving Fried Irish Car Bomb cupcakes.

But then I came home from work and was completely and totally exhausted, so we ordered a pizza and then I fell asleep on the couch at 10 p.m.

So it’s good to see that someone got a chance to indulge in those fried, alcoholic goodies.

Check out Julianne Pepitone’s review at F*cked in Park Slope. Those with a sensitivity to language and some slight ‘breeder’-bashing should take caution before clicking.