It's Fairtrade Fortnight (27th February - 11th March) and in Libraryland we holding a Big Brew. Basically you drink lots of tea and coffee, eat biscuits and cake, and donate some money to help families flourish. It's something one of my lovely colleagues suggested that we did last year and so in 2011 we held our first Big Brew (donating money to help bees and bee-keepers.) But that was just within our team at work. This year she has persuaded other teams to get involved so we can raise even more money. Once again, I volunteered to bake some yummy goodies to help the cause. Originally I had just been baking for our team, but after a meeting this morning I was asked if there would be enough goodies to go round a bit further. Of course, I said. I'll just bake an extra cake.
And so, after a full day at work followed by an hour in the gym (gotta do the exercise so I can keep on eating the cakes) I headed home for an evening of baking. After dinner, with G snoozing on the sofa, Kipling and I set off on our baking marathon.
First off was the chocolate brownies, using fairtrade chocolate of course, with a hint of orange as chocolate and orange go so well together. Second on the list was a coffee and walnut cake, with fairtrade coffee. And finally, making it's second Big Brew appearance (I made one for last year's Fairtrade Fortnight) a honey cake using, of course, fairtrade honey.
The house smells wonderful, I've just taken the last cake out of the oven, and my kitchen is upside-down. But it's now 10.45pm and time for me to head to bed so the last of the washing-up will have to wait for the morning.
If you want to find out more about the Big Brew and Fairtrade Fortnight then visit the Traidcraft website here for more information.
I'll be back with an update and more Big Brew baking soon.
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