The Cupdate on Cupcake Sales

Hola!

Yesterday Jessie and I had our first real fundraising event!  With the help of our wonderful friends (Julia, Joe, Jacob and Kelly) we had baked 122 delicious and beautifully decorated cupcakes and 30 delicious shamrock cookies.
Our plan to have a bake sale and take advantage of St. Patricks day was HUGELY successful!  Our method was a little bit different.  Rather than setting up shop and having people come to us, we travelled around the University of Guelph campus and around Downtown Guelph and brought the baked goods to the people.

 The shamrock cookies were donated by Julia Caldwell

 Jessie and I making icing and the rainbow cupcakes

 Jacob just realizes that we had been baking and decorating for 7 hours

I was blown away by the generosity that we experienced on our campus as well as downtown, and it made me so proud to be a Gryphon (which sounds incredibly cheesy, but is true).    We sold the baked goods by donation, which allowed people to pay what they could for a cupcake or cookie.  Again and again we had people giving us all their spare change and refusing to take a treat because they didn't feel like they had given enough.  I thought that this was quite impressive!

We sold approximately 90 cupcakes and 30 cookies on campus and raised $272 and downtown we sold the remainder raising $64.  Between the two of us we raised: $336!!! 

Thank you Thank you Thank you to everyone who bought a cupcake or cookie, to everyone who introduced us to their friends to help us sell, and to everyone who gave us their change!  The money is going to a great cause!!