C'mon and EAT MY BLOG!

It's time to treat your sweet tooth while doing a good deed for the hungry of the Los Angeles area. Eat My Blog is holding its third bakesale, where more than 50 baking food bloggers will be ready to tempt you with more than 2,000 baked goodies.

These aren't your run-of-the mill bakesale offerings, but the creations of people who are serious about their sweets. Goodies this time will include smoked salt toffee, chocolate whoopie pies, coconut cranberry chews, bacon brownies with bourbon caramel sauce, curry macarons, bacon caramel popcorn and marshmallows in at least three flavors, candy cane, bubblegum and eggnog (I'm making those last two myself). So what if you're on a diet? These treats will make spectacular holiday gifts!

This time we'll even have homemade catnip cookies and doggie biscuits for the four-legged friends in your life. All items will be priced between $1 to $4. Visit us in front of Tender Greens at 8759 Melrose Boulevard in West Hollywood, Saturday, December 4 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Bring a friend. In fact, bring as many friends as you can fit in your car.

Our previous two bakesales raised more than $8,000 for the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. Mark your calendar, bring your wallet and let's do it all again!

This weekend: Eat My Blog!

 If you live within the sound of my typing, please help us raise money to feed the hungry of Los Angeles by coming to the second Eat My Blog Bakesale.

Last fall, some two dozen bloggers baked up our best gourmet goodies and raised $3,000 for the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank. We're at it again on Saturday, June 19, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. We'll be on the patio at Tender Greens at 8759 Santa Monia Blvd. in West Hollywood. 70+ bakers will be serving up more than 2,000 treats to sate your sweet tooth and do a good deed.

All items are priced between $1 and $4, so this is not a budget smasher. Thanks to the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf for donating beverages to help wash it all down.

What will you find there? I feel guilty just trying to pick out a few of the many wonderful treats my compadres are bringing. I'm making my usual, bacon walnut maple fudge, and also madelines, both lemon/lavender and chocolate spice. Others are bringing goodies including

mini flourless almond cakes with mascarpone & fresh fruit

coconut clouds

Egyptian basbousa cake

whoopie cakes

jelly candies, both strawberry mint and melon sage

triple-ginger meringues

assorted truffles and chocolates

strawberry rhubarb jam

che xoi nuac: mochi dumplings in ginger sauce

Bolivian sweet & salty empanadas

cream puffs

candied nuts

chocolate Guinness cupcakes with bacon-cream cheese frosting

red velvet cakes (if this won't get you there, nothing will!)

And remember, this is jut a very brief sampling.

Please, please, PLEASE come out and indulge yourself in the name of a worthwhile cause. Think about this: The Los Angeles Regional Foodbank says that every dollar it receives can actually supply $5 of food for the hungry. That means our last donation of $3,000 provided $15,000 worth of food! Imagine how much more we can give if everyone comes out for some goodies! Not to mention that the more people who buy our treats, the more we can spread those calories around, which means less time at the gym... (hey, ya gotta work those angles, right?!)

For more information visit http://eatmyblogla.wordpress.com/. You can also find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/gastronomyblog#!/event.php?eid=121789961170815&ref=mf.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some baking to do.

Thanks, and bon appetit!