Sydney Vegan Bake Sale

Such was the success of the Sydney outpost of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale last month that we decided not to wait until next year to organise another fundraising event. And so it was that we held our first Sydney Vegan Bake Sale yesterday, under the leadership of the altogether awesome Mandee and Leigh.

Again, a whole number of people contributed by baking something for the table, helping run the stall, and of course buying and eating some nom-ables. We had a whole array of things for sale: cookies and cream and banana split cupcakes, two variations of chocolate peanut butter cupcakes, gooey caramel slice, lemon gem cupcakes, choc-cherry slice, banana muffins, little parcels of biscotti, chocolate ganache cupcakes, coconut raspberry (biscuit) sandwiches, choc-PB cookies, cherry pies, chocolate crackles, coconut date balls, lemon vanilla shortbread, choc biscuit sandwiches and gingerbread sandwiches, maple walnut cupcakes, choc-PB cake, chocolate truffle towers (on skewers), three kinds of choc-chip cookies, custard tarts, panforte and choc-cherry cake (thanks for those two, Mum!), and I did some mini and full sized cupcakes in both chocolate and lemon. I think — I hope — that I haven't forgotten anything.



I'm pretty proud of the swirled icing job I did on my lemon and chocolate cupcakes. Sometimes when you're trying so hard to get something right, it turns out disastrously; and sometimes, it turns out to be your best effort to date:



My other photos from the stall are here on Flickr; lots at the SVBS blog, too.

At the end of the day, we'd met lots of happy vegan faces familiar and new and a couple of adorable dogs into the bargain; and we'd raised $1152.75 dollars (!!!) to be donated to NSW Animal Rescue, where some much-needed treatment and TLC is lavished on special needs animals.