yummy rummies for eat my blog

friday night was a mad rush to get all 15 of my little yummy rummies (aka rum cake) ready for the eat my blog charity bake sale the following morning. since i'm not a serious baker with a handy dandy kitchenaid mixer, i had to do it the old school way with a whisk. oh boy, calling forth my atrophied muscles buried in my arm fat was comical. charlie kept me company and would intermittently come by to coax me to play (as you can see, he brought me his yellow toy for throw and fetch). alas, his mommy had some mad baking to do and i shooed him away like a fly.

lots of chopping, mixing, and rum drinking...i mean pouring :) the whole process took me a few hours but once i got into the swing of thangs, i became a well oiled baking machine!

and the army of little rum cakes were finally done. wheeeew.

i made sure they were soaked in the rum glaze before they got their lid. my little rummies were ready for consumption :) time to send my babies away....

today, when i got there at 11am, the sale was in full swing. i quickly got in line and went from a small box of baked goods to a large one. i did not know where to start! there were sooooo many delicious looking things to choose from.

hey, these look familiar! it's my rummies :) i high-fived a few people that bought them and was actually there when the last one got scooped up. yay! thank god cuz i was worried i'd see a few in zeke's trash bins...and was ready to save them if that was to happen.

it was also great to see sook and jessica again, and to meet new fellow foodies like marie and hanh. we grabbed some lunch at food lab (to be posted soon) and of course, there's a box of sweets waiting to be destroyed when i got home. i picked up sook's cookies, jessica's popcorn mix, mattatouille's budino, food she thought's biscuit, ravenous couple's mochi truffles, and a chocolate bacon fudge bar who forgive me but i do not know who made that one :( i cannot consume everything at one sitting, but look forward to doing that soon. it was an awesome event to be a part of, and now, i'm nestled in my warm bed feeling too lazy to move even a toe. i think i will have sweet dreams tonight.....