Such a creative post title.
Not.
The most exciting part of Saturday’s vegan bake sale wasn’t the food.
It was getting to finally meet my friend, Christy, in person. (She’s the author of the fabulous vegan cookbook, Blissful Bites, and 23 of her recipes are also in the new Skinny B*tch cookbook… so basically, I felt like I met a celebrity :).) I was also lucky enough to meet Jade, the incredible girl who organized the entire bake sale!
Christy and I talked for so long that I almost forgot to scope out the vegan baked goods.
Almost, but not quite.
See my huge smile?
Since it was a good cause, and since I’m lousy at making decisions, I went crazy and bought lots of baked goods. Let’s see if I can remember them all… Rocky road cake ball, sweet potato empanada, mini doughnut, cinnamon-sugar doughnut, blueberry muffin, lemon coffeecake muffin, chocolate-pb cookie, banana bread, cinnamon roll, and ginger-spice cookie:
My friend Amy invited a few girls over after work, so I brought the box along and we had fun tasting everything. Some of the treats were delicious; others were just ok. The ginger-spice cookie was absolutely awesome… and I don’t normally even like spice cookies!
I do have a recipe for Raw Gingerbread Men.
But I want to try making soft cookies like the one above (it’s hiding under the muffin and the empanada). If the baker of that cookie happens to be reading this post, please accept my thanks for money well spent.
Above, gorgeous cakes from Spiral Diner, and a cute little shopper!
Question of the Day:
Have you met any of your online friends in person?
If you want to laugh, be sure to check out this very old post.
It’s a post of my first-ever blogger meetup! 🙂
I usually met online friends first online, then in person second. But recently, I’ve gone to a few blogger meet-ups where I’ll meet them in person & then online. It’s always fun to meet the “real” person behind the picture & tweets/blog posts.
(Of course most of my online friends I’ve never met, but wish to someday!)
The littlest shopper is so cute :).
As are you two girls, and the food looks great! Wish I could’ve been there. I would have bought one of everything. No one ever makes me baked goods!
Yay, I love when you post pictures of yourself! I swear I mean that in the least creepiest way possible!!! It’s just nice to see the blogger behind the recipes sometimes, and you are so beautiful that you do veganism and healthy living proud. So post more photos ;).
I completely forgot to hit up my own local vegan bake sale this year (or even to check out when it was). Next year for sure!
My family got there super early. I wish we could have seen you! Oh and my little brother was the one who made the cinnamon rolls =p
Omigosh all of those treats look so delicious!! What a fun event and how cool that you got to meet someone that you admire! I’ve only met a few blog-online friends (though I’d love to meet more!!) and it’s been such a fun, crazy experience. Essentially you are strangers but really you know so much about each others lives! It’s awesome!
My sister was super stoked to meet her fav blogger, Joy the Baker. I didn’t read blogs at the time so I though she was crazy…but now I get it. Yall are celebrities!
Lucky sister! Yes, I would be totally starstruck if I got to meet CCK or Joy the Baker!
I’ve met 2 blogger friends in person. One I just met on Sunday in Nashville! It was such a nice visit! 🙂
Love your outfit! Those treats look so yummy.
You look beautiful, and I’m envious of that box of vegan treats! Makes me sad that I didn’t look up to see if there was a vegan bake sale here, although there probably wasn’t since I live in a small town!
YUM! That soft cookie looks so good. You should totally make a BIG soft double chocolate chunk cookie based off of the Erin Baker Breakfast cookies!!!
I love bake sales, but I’ve never been to a vegan one before.
Wow all of the treats look amazing! That looks like it was a great event. I haven’t met a blogger friend in person, yet.
All those baked goods sound incredible! I love ginger snaps so I am sure I would have loved that spice cookie! The cakes are gorgeous too! Love the summery colors!
How awesome! Those baked goods are making me drool over here…
This past weekend, I got to meet up with Kristen (from http://www.notsodomesticated.com) in Nashville. We hit it off and are already planning another Nashville getaway this summer!
Haha you two were posting at the same time, it looks like!
AHHHH….I’m moving to TX in 18 days!!!! I can’t believe it~ I’M SOOO EXCITED! Even though I’m not moving to Dallas (Austin…WOOOO!!!!), seeing your pics made me get up and do a lil’ dance! haha^^
AND.. for the first time in my life, I’m going to NYC (leaving next Monday)!! I’ve definitely been referencing your blog for ideas on what to do/where to eat!!!
AND…random question… do you like kombucha? I’m just curious. I love it, and as soon as I’m settled in my new place, I plan to brew up a kombucha storm!!!
I do like it… but it’s so expensive! And every now and then I’d get a bottle that was flat :(. So I haven’t actually bought any in quite a long time!
That looks sooo good! I wish I could have made it 🙁 but school is currently trying extremely hard to kill me lol! I will have to come to the next one!
Glad you had such a good time. I have to agree with Lisa though, I would have expected much more chocolate in that box of yours! 😛
Katie those look great. I met and still friends that I met online when we were all pregnant 15 years ago..and all our babies were due in june….. im in California and if I go to NY there’s a mom there I can hang out with. Same with Texas…. I love it…..
Hmm also I met my husband online 11 years ago…does that count?