Cakes for a Cause: Woman Donates Baking Profits to Help Feed Hungry
Darien resident Julie Stone bakes sweet treats for people and donates the profits to the People's Resource Center, which helps feed families and get them back on their feet.
A Darien woman is making life a little sweeter for people in the area by combining her greatest passions: baking and volunteering. Julie Stone has loved baking all of her life, but it wasn't until a few years ago that she realized she could put her skills to work by helping people. For her Christmas present in 2009, Stone's husband signed her up for cake-decorating classes at Wilton Homewares in Darien. She enjoyed it so much that she brought the hobby home and decorated cakes, "but that got fattening pretty fast," Stone said. So she started baking cakes for other people—book clubs, Sweet 16 birthday parties and more. After one birthday party, the mother of the child donated $200 to the People's Resource Center, a food pantry and family…
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