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The Cupcakes & Cocktails event by Austin Food Blogger Alliance, benefiting Bake A Wish, is more than good food and drink for a good cause. It is also a silent auction and cocktail-themed cupcake challenge.

Silent Auction Highlights:

• A Demy, the Key Ingredient Recipe Reader (like a Kindle but but for all your recipes!)
• A month of local boxes from Greenling
• Cupcake-themed jewelry by Vinca USA
• A private party at Make It Sweet, including a cake-ball making class taught by owner Jennifer Bartos, valued at $1000
• Gift Certificates for Torchy’s, Easy Tiger, Faraday’s, Red’s Porch, and others
• Market tokens and local goodies from Johnson’s Backyard Garden and Tecolote Farm
• Signed cookbooks from Austin Food Blogger Alliance author’s Tiffany Harelik, Kate Payne, Melissa Joulwan, and Austin Food Blogger Alliance Advisory Council member Karen Morgan
• A 12-month developer package from Woo Themes, sure to be a huge hit with our blogger bidders
• Themed gift baskets from Central Market Westgate.

The bakeries which will be participating in the Cocktail-themed cupcake challenge are:

• Barrie Cullinan of Amity Bakery
• Heidi Swiderski of Envy Pastries
• Jessica Forkner of Objects of Confection
• Stephanie Dobos of Sugar N’ Spice Patisserie
• Sugar Mama’s Bakeshop (represented by Andrea Leck)