So I was slogging through Slog yesterday, when what to my wondering eyes should appear, but this. A bake
sale for Obama? Sponsored by Move-On.org? A chance to indulge my baking bug without getting fatter? I am so there. So I go to the Move-on website, look around for a bake sale near me, and see they are having one at Vain. Vain, you say? What’s that all about? Well, check the links, we’re not here to talk hair or art however, we are here to talk about a bake sale.
Since Vain is all about personal style, they put on one stylish bake sale. Everything was done up all fancy, I heard rumors of mini-cheesecakes. This was not your cheerleaders bake sale, this was a party happening on the street. All they needed was music, and maybe that’s happening at the art opening tonight.
Not only were there baked goods, there was an open bar. Of course, you can’t serve liquor on the street, so they did the next best thing, they served 
mocktails. You could get a pink pantydropper, a passionfruit mojito, or a lemon basil drop. All for whatever you wanted to donate. I am personally 
here to tell you that the pink panty-dropper was so good, I’d have been dropping my pink panties if it had liquor in it. Cranberry juice and mint. Who knew? And the basil lemon drop was no slouch either. If you were into mundane things like sodas or water, they had that, too. They even had a bowl of water out for the dogs. Much appreciated, it’s close to eighty today, and very muggy.
The baked goods were wide ranging from plain jane cookies and cupcakes to Cherry Obama’s and Barack-alicious brownies. From Amish cinnamon bread to starter for Amish cinnamon bread. I had to satisfy my chocolate and coconut urge with a cupcake frosted in chocolate and sprinkled with coconut.
So what did I contribute to this event? Well, I took some of a new batch of the Buttermilk Ginger Cake. This time, I tried making it in the food processor. There was only one problem. It fills a 10 cup bundt pan, and I have a 7 cup food processor. OOOPPS!!!! I 
ended up putting in one cup of flour, processing it, pouring off half of the batter into a bowl, putting in the other two cups of flour, and then mixing them together. It came out well, and no unmixed flour. The next time I do this recipe, it’s plan C, the mixer.
I used this opportunity to clean out my cupboard, too. Rock hard brown sugar into the ginger cake, and package of low-carb banana nut muffins foisted on the community. I truly apologize to anyone who bought 
the low-carb muffins, they are nasty. I also made up a pan of Koko-Moka Brownies, and I’ll give you the recipe.
Before I do that, however, give me a moment to get all politcal on you. When I was sitting down there drinking my pink panty-dropper, some guy walked by and said, “I don’t know why they need a bake sale with all the multi-millionaires they have.” Let’s see, Democratic millionaires. George Soros is the only one I can think of. But that’s not the point, the point is that this is a grass-roots organization. How much more grass-roots can you get than bake sales, for pete’s sake? To me, the grass-roots are the only hope. I just hope this isn’t astroturf. It’s time that We the People meant something besides We the Corporations.
Koko-Mocha Brownies
One of my friends gave me this recipe years ago. I don’t know where it came from, it’s been written in my private recipe book for years. Adding the coffee is my own little filip.
1 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of oil
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/3 cup cocoa
1 tsp instant coffee
1/2 cup walnut pieces, optional
Mix sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla, salt, and coffee together. Add dry ingredients. Mix just until blended. Pour into a greased and floured square pan. Bake at 350° for about 20 minutes, or until it pulls away from the edge of the pan. Myself, I just put it into the food processor in the above order, and gave it a couple of pulses.
