More Happy Munching

Taste testing fair trade products at home is all very well, but we needed to go public and win some converts to the fair trade concept. After a Bears Unlimited team meeting, we decided that the best way to achieve our goal would be to bake some delicious cakes using fair trade ingredients and then have a coffee morning in one of our local church halls, serving fair trade drinks with the cakes of course.

We thought we'd baked extra large quantities of cakes: hazelnut & chocolate brownies, fruity banana bread and pecan toffee whirls, so there would be plenty left for us to eat at the end, as you've got to admit they do sound mouth wateringly delicious!


However, we were completely bowled over by demand for our fair trade cakes. They literally flew off the plates and all our happy customers said they would now be looking for the fair trade logo next time they went shopping.

As you can see from our picture, our success meant that there wasn't much left to take home at the end. Just a couple of the hazelnut brownies topped by coffee icing. Mind you, these really do tickle a bear's taste buds as the chocolate /hazelnut combination is rather similar to that staple of a bear diet - nutella. (Note to our friend Bear, we'll send you the recipe).

The other great thing about our coffee morning is that it raised a lot of money which we will be sending off to Traidcraft.

All in all, a good morning's work.

Lots of love, all at Bears Unlimited xxx