Photos by Nancy Starczyk
[KHTS] – The seventh annual Sweet Charity Cake Auction attracted hundreds of guests to support the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Project Saturday.
Held at Robinson Ranch Golf Club, the event featured 11 cakes made by amateur and professional bakers to raise funds for the SCV Youth Project.
The event was an opportunity for businesses, organizations and schools to design a cake that best reflects their mission, logo or product.
The competition was judged by celebrity judges such as Dorthey Lucey from Good Day L.A., David Goldstein, investigative reporter for KCBS and KCAL and Cindy Schwanke, the Department Chair for Culinary Arts and Wine Studies at College of the Canyons.
Attendees could bid on the cakes. The starting bid ranged from $100 to $150; the cakes were valued between $300 and $900.
“Each cake usually raises a few hundred dollars,” said Kim Goldman, the executive director for the Youth Project. “The highest a cake was ever sold was around $800.”
One hundred percent of the proceeds raised went towards teenagers that are dealing with mental health issues for the SCV Youth Project, according to Goldman.
Three bakers from Madison Rose Bakery, Stephanie Estrada, Justin Miranda and Kerry Miranda won the “Judges’ Award” for their gluten-free cake titled “Breakfast Time.” The cake was in the shape of a waffle with a bottle pouring syrup on top.
Sara Stevens, 19, won the “Originality Award” for her Taylor Swift themed cake, “1989.”
About the SCV Youth Project
The SCV Youth Project is a community based venture that encourages youth to successfully deal with the concerns they face daily and to avoid high-risk activities such as drug use, unsafe sex, peer influence, truancy and running away.
The Youth Project offers youth and those who care about them confidential, non-judgemental and non-threatening access to the services they need with absolutely no strings attached.
Built on a foundation of partnership with all sectors – public, private and nonprofit – the SCV Youth Project promotes community ownership of youth issues and a commitment to developing a seamless network of resources for those in need.
“The SCV Youth Project is active on all junior high and high school campuses,” said Goldman.
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4 Comments
I wish you would post “upcoming events” open to the public so more of us could attend
I wish you would post “upcoming events” open to the public so more of us could attend
Very pretty. Don’t think I’d want to eat it and ruin it.
You should open this up to more people. It would bring in more money. You could have different levels, ie: beginners,intermediate, amateurs, Proffessional, whimsical, original, themed etc. publicize it early enough to give those interested a chance to enter. Just a suggestion but I know this would be a good money maker.