Day 24 - Blueberry White Choc Muffins and friends

my favourite kind

This is my favourite muffin flavour of all time when I'm not craving for chocolate. Throughout the duration of my obsessed baking life I have been trying to bake the perfect cafe style crunchy tops, but I think the secret lies within industrial ovens. One of these days I'm going to have to get myself one!


So it was "Muffin Day" at Queensland Treasury today - Jess has done some hard work to give my campaign more exposure outside of CGA. I was up late last night baking the 54 pre-ordered muffins she had organised for me. Naturally, I had to make extra muffins for work. I much prefer my muffins baked without paper casings so the base gets a crunchy outer layer as well. I received a call from Helen shortly after morning tea asking what secret ingredient I put in these muffins :) As mentioned in a previous post, buttermilk is my new best friend. It does make cakes and muffins fluffier, this is not a secret, but I'm sticking to it!

a shot of blueberry white choc muffins with friends

And because I had to bake four different flavours for QTC, there were a few odd extras to add to the offering today. They all disappeared by the time I re-entered the kitchen. People seem to like muffins! 


Also, business up on level 3 has been steady as well. I will continue to bring small quantities upstairs now that people have caught on about sugar4water.


Yesterday, while I was on the lift down from level 3, a guy from Land Partners asked me about my donation jar I was admiring (with the extra $50 note donation in there). I briefly told him about my baking everyday for fundraising. Now I can't remember what he said exactly, but I guess I hear what I wanted to hear... Something along the lines of them being interested at helping. When I got back to my seat, I wrote them an email straight away and it turns out Land Partners does regular charity morning teas and even has a "charity fridge" which sounds really cute/great idea. So Andres who seems to be in charge of charity events in the office has pre-ordered some muffins from me in a couple of weeks and we'll see how that goes :) I think my lucky stars have been aligning lately, and wishes have been coming true. Thank you - man from the lift! (whose identity is still a mystery).


Quite exhausted, just finished baking two quick cakes for tomorrow's morning tea. Another week gone by, I'm going to move my campaign deadline one day forward to 30th of September as Charity:Water is doing a big collection then to get water projects built faster.