Craig's Kitchen

Good karma, I'm all about that. What better way to earn some good karma than to cook for others? I've been looking into ways to involve myself more with the community in general, so when I heard about Craig's Kitchen I immediately became intrigued.

Without going into TOO much detail, Craig's Kitchen is an organization of volunteers who organizes a more sustainable, seasonal, nutritious, and home-cooked program for the Greenpoint Soup Kitchen. They work with local CSAs to ensure the soup kitchen receives as much good produce as possible, and I'm hoping they are able to do similar things with the meat they serve (though I'm a tad skeptical). I'm volunteering to bake as a part of their Dessert Corps. Baking! For a cause! Woooooo!!

Each Wednesday a handful of volunteers bake within the category that is given to them, with a reminder of the dessert and sample recipes sent out the weekend prior. The desserts also try to be as seasonal as possible, but let's be real- Sometimes you just gotta have a brownie.

Next Wednesday's dessert du jour is chocolate cake. There isn't a strict recipe you must follow, but you do have to bake some cake thing made out of chocolate. I'm thinking a two-layer moist devil's food cake with some sort of salted caramel icing. mmmmm. Will let you know how it goes.