For the last couple of years, Cami has been saying that she wants to own her own bakery someday. During this year of homeschooling, I've really tried to have her capitalize on her interest in baking and give her plenty of practice honing her skills. She's made a couple of cakes for pay, regularly volunteers to bring treats places, and recently even started her own cupcake blog, although she has not taken to blogging quite as heartily as her mother. :)
During her recent tenure as Beehive class president at church, Cami had an idea of having a Beehive Bake Sale, with all the proceeds to be donated to the Red Cross for disaster relief efforts around the world. Cami was so excited about the idea and really put her full effort into making it a success. She even approached some local businesses herself asking for permission to set up the sale on their property. Ultimately the Bishop had to take over searching for a venue, as each business demanded that they only deal with the corporate offices.
Eventually a local orthodontist, gave them permission to set up in his parking lot. I thought it was a little strange being in front of an orthodontist office, but since all the grocery stores, computer store, and craft store all said NO, they were just grateful for a spot! Of course, it didn't hurt either that it was located near a bustling farmer's market.
Each of the girls was in charge of baking up several dozen goodies...
Cami made these chocolate cupcakes with fluffy mint frosting....
And these Key Lime Cupcakes, which turned out to be quite popular, despite their being more like cookies in texture than an actual cupcake....
The girls were all excited and eager salesman. They yelled at passing cars and walked around in sandwich boards.
In the end, despite their unusual location, there was a steady stream of customers (of course it was a lot of the girls' family members, some ward members, with a steady amount of passing cars and pedestrians stopping by as well)....
I'm proud to say that I was mother to a couple of very happy (and dirty) customers...
In the end all of Cami's cupcakes were SOLD OUT and the Beehives ended up donating almost $300 to the Red Cross.
Can't beat that.....practice for a future career and helping people out around the world.
Way to go Cami!
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During her recent tenure as Beehive class president at church, Cami had an idea of having a Beehive Bake Sale, with all the proceeds to be donated to the Red Cross for disaster relief efforts around the world. Cami was so excited about the idea and really put her full effort into making it a success. She even approached some local businesses herself asking for permission to set up the sale on their property. Ultimately the Bishop had to take over searching for a venue, as each business demanded that they only deal with the corporate offices.
Eventually a local orthodontist, gave them permission to set up in his parking lot. I thought it was a little strange being in front of an orthodontist office, but since all the grocery stores, computer store, and craft store all said NO, they were just grateful for a spot! Of course, it didn't hurt either that it was located near a bustling farmer's market.
Each of the girls was in charge of baking up several dozen goodies...
Cami made these chocolate cupcakes with fluffy mint frosting....
And these Key Lime Cupcakes, which turned out to be quite popular, despite their being more like cookies in texture than an actual cupcake....
and also these Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut Frosting....
The girls were all excited and eager salesman. They yelled at passing cars and walked around in sandwich boards.
In the end, despite their unusual location, there was a steady stream of customers (of course it was a lot of the girls' family members, some ward members, with a steady amount of passing cars and pedestrians stopping by as well)....
I'm proud to say that I was mother to a couple of very happy (and dirty) customers...
In the end all of Cami's cupcakes were SOLD OUT and the Beehives ended up donating almost $300 to the Red Cross.
Can't beat that.....practice for a future career and helping people out around the world.
Way to go Cami!
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This is awesome!!! I smell a YW value project...she should write this up for Good Works if she hasn't already. Also, have you thought about sending this on to your local paper? WAY TO GO!!
ReplyDeleteWow. That's awesome Cami. Way to go. Wish we had known my kids would have bought you out within minutes.
ReplyDeleteNice job, Cami! Your cupcakes look delicious.
ReplyDeleteWow! Great work!!
ReplyDeleteYum! The chocolate mint ones look especially good to me - I think Cami needs to add those to her blog. What a cute blog, Cami. I can't wait to try out some of your recipes!
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