It's Bake Sale Time!

Some of you know that I am doing an ongoing bake sale fundraiser to raise funds for Tu Nidito Children's Services.  I am riding for them in El Tour this year (I have ridden for them three previous years as well).  So I was riding my bike one day and trying to think of a way to earn more than $500, which is my previous record.  How could I reach more people??  And then it hit me that some people loved my baked goods and would pay for them.  I went to my former co-workers first and they jumped all over it.

Monday was my first baking and delivery day.  I was a little worried how much time it would take to bake dozens of cookies but I was pleasantly surprised.  The first thing I made was the brownies.  I made a triple batch; that sure was a lot of batter!  I used five cups of sugar too: sheesh!

Here is my kitchen with all the supplies ready to go.

While the brownies baked I was able to make the oatmeal chocolate chip cookie dough.  I only needed one dozen of them so I formed the rest into balls and stuck them in the freezer.  At the same time (or so it seemed) I made the chocolate chip cookie dough.  I stuck that in the fridge until I was ready for it.  I needed three dozen of them so I ended up baking them all.

Here are my dual projects.  I wasn't worried about cross contamination since the cookies were very similar.  I will be more careful when I make things with nuts in them. 

And finally, all my finished products, cooling and waiting to be packaged.  It only took about 2 hours to bake all of this but it seemed like I was cleaning the kitchen for the rest of the day.  I delivered these items in the afternoon and got $50 out of it.  All proceeds go to Tu Nidito so that got me excited.  And it all came from people who haven't donated before so that was awesome (and no, I did not sample any of these)!