Best Fundraising Bake Sale (Crisis Edition)

Austin Bakes for West

First, Austin Baked for Japan following the devastating tsunami in 2011. Then, Austin Baked for Bastrop just a few months later to soothe the burn of the worst wildfires in Texas history. Then, after the deadly explosion of a fertilizer plant leveled a chunk of the town of West, Texas, an intrepid team of Austin food bloggers, restaurateurs, and good-hearted citizens banded together for a citywide fundraising bake sale. Organized by Kathryn Hutchison, Austin Food Blogger Alliance president and head of "Sproutreach" at Greenling, the bake sale raised more than $18,000 for AmeriCares' relief efforts for our neighbors to the north.

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