Celebrate the sweetest day of the year
Support the Cupcakes 4 Hope charity
National Cupcake Day will be celebrated this year on 30 September, and the Cupcake Angels are planning something big. According to Karin Viljoen, one of the Cupcake Angels, this year they will be in 60 malls throughout South Africa with yummy cupcakes, asking for donations.
“I will be the coordinator at the 14th Avenue Shopping Centre at the corner of William Nicol and Constantia Drives, Constantia Kloof.
There will also be cupcake angels at Clearwater Mall and Northgate Shopping Centre,” Karin said.Cupcakes for Hope is a non-profit organisation that aims to raise awareness and funds for families in need of medical assistance. “We do this through our love of baking cupcakes. The only requirement for these cupcakes is that they should be baked with love,” she said.The organisation uses the money raised from these events towards paying medical bills, transport to hospital, food hampers, school fees, clothing, birthday parties, Christmas gifts, hospital visits and spoils, as well as other day-to-day expenses.
This year, Cupcakes for Hope will also attempt to break the Guinness World Record by building the tallest stack of cupcakes the world has ever seen. The monumental effort (and tower of delightful, mouthwatering yumminess) will be attempted on 23 September in Vereeniging. A total of 5 000 cupcakes will go into building the tower of nearly 11 metres tall – almost two metres taller than the current record!
The ingredients to achieve this include more than 625 eggs, 47 kilograms of sugar, 26 kilograms of butter, 50 kilograms of flour and 52 kilograms of icing sugar. The cupcakes will be artfully arranged on a specially designed steel structure that will be delivered to the venue on the day.
The aim of this world-record breaking attempt is to raise money for South African children with cancer and to draw public attention to the harrowing path their families walk in fighting this disease to save their children’s lives.
“It’s all to help very ill children. Right now, we need to raise R600 000 for stem-cell and bone-marrow transplants. There are desperately ill children in
our network whose families need all the help they can get,” said Cupcakes of Hope founder Sandy Cipriano.
For more information on Cupcake Day, or to find out how you can help, contact Karin on 083 227 5640 or at ckviljoen@gmail.com.
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