Great American Bake Sale @ PepsiCo

PepsiCo hosted a Great American Bake Sale with all proceeds going in support of the No Kid Hungry Program.  The program does some great work!  Here's a link to their site GABS Homepage
The Brown Sugar Cafe was happy to make donations of baked goods to support the bake sale.
Every item sold can make a huge impact:

• $1 can help provide a hungry child with 10 healthy meals.
• $4 can help provide a child facing hunger with a backpack full of healthy food over a weekend when school meals are not available.
• $9 can help connect a child with healthy lunches during summer when school is out.
• $35 can help a child care center provide free afterschool snacks & suppers to at-risk children all year long.
• $65 can provide a grab-n-go breakfast cart to an elementary school so that every student starts every school day with a healthy meal.

Here are pictures of some of the items we donated that were a sellout in the first hour:
Snickers Cupcake

Cookies & Cream Cupcake

Hummingbird Layer Cake Slices

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all the great dads out there, especially to my Daddy, Grandfather and Father-in-law! You make the world a better place!

In honor of my father (who loves a moist cake) I made him a batch of Coconut Cupcakes. They have coconut in the cake & in the creamy frosting, with shaved coconut on top. He loved them...and so did my Mom LOL!

Welcome to The Brown Sugar Cafe Blog!

Welcome to The Brown Sugar Café Blog!  Thanks for checking us out!

Our mission is to bring some sweetness to your life with our delightful handcrafted desserts.  We create classic old-fashioned homestyle desserts along with some newer creations. Many of our recipes are passed down from the generations of great bakers in my family, from my great-grandmothers to my grandmothers to my mom to me. 

The Brown Sugar Café is your Chicago area bakery that creates the absolute tastiest cookies, cupcakes, poundcakes, layer cakes, and other desserts.  Quite simply, The Brown Sugar Café transforms fresh, simple ingredients into delightful desserts. 

This blog will used to share newly launched items, test items, pictures, decorations, activities, and other things we find interesting or note worthy.  We encourage your comments and interactions!

So c'mon get yourself some of this brown sugar sweetness!