Cupcake Fundraiser!

So in addition to baking, I've been putting a lot of energy into some fundraising recently! This entire week I have been studying for tests, doing homework, but most of all -- preparing for my cupcake fundraiser this past Friday! I hosted a fundraiser yesterday, October 15th, at school during lunch and although it seems like it wouldn't take that much work, it really takes SO much energy to put together. I had to: find a good date, run everything by my social action advisor at school, find the cheapest but kosher ingredients (which are a lot harder to find than you'd think!), make posters and flyers then put them around school, print and cut factoids to hand out to people, estimate how many people would buy cupcakes then get supplies according to that numbers, get extra cupcakes pans, buy the actual baking supplies, and get boxes to store the cupcakes which took SO MUCH TIME!!! Then the actual act of mixing, baking, frosting, and designing the cupcakes took 8 HOURS! Thursday was an extremely difficult and tiring day while I was baking the cookies and studying for a test the next day, but everything turned out great :)

I made about:

140 chocolate cupcakes

110 red velvet cupcakes

70 vanilla cupcakes

and 20 cinnamon sugar cupcakes

... for a grand total of 340 cupcakes!

The fundraiser was a little overwhelming because there were so many people buying the cupcakes at once but I'm actually happy it turned out crazy busy rather than have no one there at all haha.

About 50 cupcakes were left over which means I sold about 290 cupcakes total at $1 each. (I gave rest of the 50 cupcakes to PATH) So in total I made...$290 which I'm thrilled about! The cost of all the supplies and ingredients was about $60 so there was a total profit of $230 that I'm donating to PATH. Combined with the profits from my ice cream sandwich fundraiser last year, I've been able to donate about $400 to PATH so I'm really happy about what I've done so far. I know my work isn't close to done so I'm going to keep having fundraisers all throughout the year.

In addition to the super successful cupcake fundraiser that I just hosted with my YOZMA group (a student action group at Milken), I have some other ideas for fundraiser that I'd just like to put out there:

SOVA Drive- everyone in school can bring cans of food to donate and the advisory that brings the most can have a pancake breakfast every Friday for a month. The cans of food would be donated to SOVA

Toy Drive- everyone in school can bring toys to donate and the advisory that brings the most toys can either get some community service hours or a pancake breakfast every Friday for a month.

Toy Fundraiser- try to raise money to buy toys for kids at homeless shelters who don't have toys for this Christmas/Hannukah

So those are just some ideas! I really love how each and every one of them allow me to directly give back to other people whether it's through cans of food or presents for everyone because I can have a more personal connection with the people there. I can't wait until each one of these pull through and actually happen :)

Anyways thanks so much for reading and there are a lot more fun and exciting things coming up soon so stay tuned!

Sincerely,

The Blissful Baker