Calling all Tampa Bay Vegans!

This is just a reminder that anyone interested in getting involved with the Tampa Vegan Bake Sale is more than welcome! This is for the greater Tampa Bay area, so all you Pasco and Pinellas County kids are invited to join us as well. And because as of now this is the only sale participating in the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale in the whole state of Florida, out-of-towners are invited!

Contact me at elizabeth.holli@gmail.com for more information.

Confirmation, Cookies, and Cupcakes (Oh my!)

Great news! Ybor City Saturday Market has approved our vendor application and confirmed our space for the Tampa Vegan Bake Sale! Now it’s just a matter of picking out the most mouth-watering recipes and designing literature to pass out at the event. The current results of the poll show that 60% of you would most like to see cookies at the event. I am happy to oblige as cookies are fun to make and should keep well on a hot, summer day. After all, who doesn’t like eating an ooey-gooey chocolate chip cookie and washing it down with a swig of iced tea in the Florida heat? Well, maybe that’s just me.

20% of you said you would like to see muffins. This is great, too, as this bake sale is kicking off early in the morning and muffins go great with breakfast. The remaining 20% of you stated like you would like to see “other,” yet left no details as to what that “other” pertained to. I’m not a mind reader, people!

Luckily, I have big ideas for that “other” category. And that’s some really beautiful, really delicious vegan cupcakes! Missy and the good folks at Groovy Vegetarian were kind enough to send me Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, a vegan dessert cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero. I definitely plan to feature some very special, very cruelty-free cupcakes at the sale.

Everyday I am getting more people volunteering to help. I am getting so excited to get started and hopefully talk to a lot of Tampa folk about the joys of going vegan.

So mark your calendars now everyone:

Saturday, June 20th and June 27th

Ybor City Saturday Market in Centennial Park, corner of 8th ave. and 19th st. in historic Ybor City

9 am – 1 pm

Cupcake photo by Benjamin Earwicker from www.sxc.hu