SA Rocks

What a fresh idea. A bakeoff. I love it. Going back to the days when I was 7 and had to get my mom to bake me something to take to class to sell and raise money. Old school, new rules as the saying goes.

The event is called the World Wide Bloggers Bake Off and here’s the lowdown:

It seems to me that the event is held by Breadline Africa. That’s the first thing.

The next thing is the intention:

Join the many bloggers, everyday internet users and other concerned people around the world who have made a pledge to help end hunger in Africa by signing up to participate in the Breadline Africa Worldwide Blogger Bake Off.

How it all works:

Quite simply; bake bread, give dough. You can sign up for the campaign, make a donation, upload your bread recipes and document your culinary adventures in the media centre to spread the word. Bloggers can go even further by downloading our widget and tagging five other bloggers to do the same.

Every donation goes towards our $1 million target, and the honour of having a container kitchen in Africa named after you is the first prize, along with an Amazon voucher of $500. The winners with the most votes for each recipe category will receive $250 in Amazon vouchers each.

It really appears to be a simple and fun way to actually make a difference. None of this signing of petitions or ranting. Simply donate, bake off, submit a recipe or visit the site and spread the love.

The Widget

I have placed the Widget in my sidebar to the right as you can see. Click on the donations button there and donate in the name of SA Rocks. What better way to try and help your fellow Africans?

If you are a blogger and want to get involved here’s why you should use the widget:

The Worldwide Blogger Bake Off widget is more than just a decorative badge for your website or blog. It is specially designed to function as a gateway for bloggers and fundraisers, referring traffic through to the Worldwide Blogger Bake Off site.

The sleek and sexy widget displays how much you and your friends have managed to generate for the alleviation of poverty in Africa, as well as the overall donation total.

Lastly and most importantly, the widget acts as a billboard for the campaign; spreading the wholesome Breadline Africa message far and wide. Wear it with pride.

So let’s do it. Oh, and thanks to Rob Stokes from Quirk for alerting me to the event.

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I really do love cupcakes but that’s not what this post is about.

Having breakfast in Parkhurst this past weekend I was told of a story. A magical place where dreams become cupcake reality!

I Love Cupcakes is a fantastic little (really really tiny) story on the main 4th street strip of Johannesburg. If you love cupcakes and live in that area do yourself a favour and head through. When I arrived there were to young girls manning their stations. That was it, two young girls looking as if this was the modern day equivalent of a Lemonade Stand outside of ones house.

They began to rattle off the types of cupcakes they had; Cuppaccino, Choc-Chip, Tiramisu, Mint-Choc, Vanilla (always a classic), passionfruit and pineapple and many more that escape my memory.

Here are some pictures of the lovely cupcakes that I bought (I couldn’t resist)

And guess what? In the name of all things web 2.0 they have an online shop!! Get over there now and have a look at their stunning website and get yourself a cupcake or two or three or four. Oh bugger it, get yourself one of each flavour.

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