Come to our charity bake sale today in Brooklyn! I'm making coconut cupcakes!

And I almost never make cupcakes, certainly not on my own. Please join us today!

Please come out and join the three of us and our readers...



We are pleased to announce that Cupcakes Take The Cake will be having a cupcake bake sale on Sunday, October 19 at The Brooklyn Flea in Fort Greene. The bake sale is a fundraiser for Cancer Care's Cupcakes for a Cause week.
If you live in NYC, please come and support us. We will need cupcake bakers, people to man the bake sale table and cupcake eaters.

Cupcakes Take The Cake Bake Sale
Sunday, October 19 10AM-5PM
The Brooklyn Flea
Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School
Lafayette Avenue Between Clermont and Vanderbilt Avenue

Our stand will be near all the food vendor are. The Brooklyn Flea layout is here and we will be at E-10

The Brooklyn Flea is in Fort Greene on Lafayette Avenue between Clermont and Vanderbilt Avenue. From Manhattan, you can take the C to Lafayette Avenue. From Queens, Williamburg, Carroll Gardens, you can take the G to Clinton-Washington Avenue. Check HopStop if there are weekend service changes.

If you don't live in NYC, we encourage to do your own bake sale that weekend (October 18-19) and send us pictures. Duncan Hines, who is the corporate sponsor for Cupcakes For A Cause,can send you coupons for your bake sale.

Did you see us on the Today Show?

If not, you can watch the clip on the MSNBC website or right here:



And if you want to find out more about the dance troupe featured in the MSNBC clip, see our interview with Sue Hogan, founder of Unison Fetish.


photo by Hope Davis

And please, please, please join Cupcakes Take the Cake this Sunday at the Brooklyn Flea from 10 am - 5 pm for a charity bake sale. Get all the details here. I'm baking banana cupcakes!


Cupcakes by Sweet Avenue Bake Shop

The night all Nichelle's money disappeared

Nichelle Stephens is one of my best friends. I've known her since April or May 2004, when we did the WYSIWYG reading together, and we have since become fellow cupcake bloggers, traveled together, and gossiped a lot. You can see lots of photos of her in my Flickr stream.

Please read her post, The Night All My Money Disappeared. It's sad and scary, and even if you don't have any advice or a way to help, you can comment and think good thoughts for her. Here's an update.

She's also asking people to donate to RightRides, a New York organization. I'll let them explain themselves:

RightRides offers women, transgender and gender queer individuals a free, safe, late night ride home on Saturday nights from 11:59 PM - 3 AM, early Sunday morning in 35 NYC neighborhoods. To call for a ride, the dispatch number is (718) 964-7781.

Since 2004, RightRides has driven over 1,000 riders safely home, thanks to hundreds of dedicated volunteers and our vehicle sponsor, Zipcar.

Visit the RightRides homepage and donate via Nichelle to get her to her $1,000 fundraising goal.

One of the things I love most about Nichelle is that she has a huge heart. She is always ready to listen (okay, sometimes I know I annoy her with my madness, especially when it's of the romantic kind, but she puts up with that anyway) and has a big heart. She also is the organizer of our NYC Cupcakes Take the Cake Meetup (please join and help me reach my personal goal of 1,000 members, just cause that would sound so cool) and you can hang out with us and Allison on Sunday starting at noon at The Brooklyn Flea eating yummy homemade cupcakes while helping charity! You know it's special cause even I'm gonna bake some banana cupcakes!

Please show Nichelle some love, cause I want to see her smiling again, like this (from the set of The Martha Stewart Show):



Nichelle, I am sending happy thoughts and news your way. And, virtually, this money cupcake from Flickr user heath_bar: