A heavy heart.

I have tried not to think about it, actually keeping myself quite busy, but thoughts keep coming back. The complete devastation in Haiti is overwhelming. The pictures on the news of the blood flowing down the street made my heart hurt and my stomach ache.  I feel so powerless and have tried to ignore those nagging feelings to do something. So today I am frivolously baking again but today trying to make it worthy.

Soule Mama I think said it best –

“The most important thing, I think, is to do something – in whatever way is right for you! Don’t be overwhelmed by the choices, or misled by your seeming ‘smallness’ – light a candle, sew a blanket, send a dollar…whatever it may be. It matters.” –Amanda Soule

Please consider doing something –anything!

To say thank you for your generosity, Steph at the DailyDigi and I have a special gift for you. Send me an email and tell me that you have made a contribution to a charity of your choice (no amount too small) and we will e-mail you a special download for printable heart cupcake toppers, printable cupcake wrappers, printable valentine papers and also digital files that you can manipulate.


Individually we might seem small and powerless, but together we are big! Together we can make a difference! So for every mommy without their baby today, for the babies without mommies, for everyone that lost all that was important to them, for everyone that lived through the terror…. — lets just try to do something. Together in our little gestures we can show love, share kindness, provide comfort and give hope!



Devil’s Food Cupcakes with Cream Filling and Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting

Make your favorite chocolate cupcakes or prepare purchased cake mix. Let cupcakes cool.

Creme Filling

1 – 7 oz container marshmallow cream

1/2 cup softened butter

1/3 cup powder sugar

1 tablespoon water

1/4 teaspoon salt

With electric mixer beat ingredients together until fluffy. Add in a few drops of red food coloring if you like pink filling like we do!

Attach a large tip to pastry bag and fill with cream. Insert tip into cupcake and fill until cupcake slightly expands.

Ganache Frosting

12 oz semisweet chocolate chips

1 cup heavy cream (must be heavy cream — half and half will not work)

Place chocolate chips into a bowl and pour cream over the top. Heat in microwave until chips are soft.  Allow mixture to sit a minute to continue melting the chips. Stir well. Let mixture come to room temperature.  With electric mixer beat until fluffy. Fill pastry bag with large star tip and pipe onto cupcakes.

Enough frosting and filling for 12-15 cupcakes depending on your frosting and filling style.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere! Four out of five people live in poverty.

If you feel you can’t contribute financially, consider donating something you have made to Craft Hope to help raise money.

If you are one of the sweet families selling Hot Chocolate for Haiti, maybe whip up some cupcakes with the toppers and wrappers to sell along with your hot chocolate!

It all matters!

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  1. Ditto. That’s about all I can say. I can’t even wrap my brain around the horrors that are besieging the Haitians. Much sadness. I’ve contributed to the Red Cross and to another group, but no need for any downloadables for me. Thank you for offering them to everyone, though! Really nice of you. 🙂

  2. Please make sure you e-mail me for the Valentine treats! I am having a hard time keeping it all straight —–

  3. I donated to Heartline Haiti and to Compassion International. I have a horrible stomach flu, but am grateful for a good washing machine, a helpful husband, and two kids to hug in spite of feeling miserable. In light of Haiti, there is much to be thankful for.

    Once I feel better I am going to write to lawmakers to help a family that is trying to bring their adoptive son home. More info found here to help this family:

    http://thehowertons.blogspot.com/

    Thanks for doing what you can, anything helps.

  4. I am in the process of making 100 baby blankets (with help) for the Baptist Haiti Mission’s hospital and we have contributed financially as well to BHM.

    The earthquake has effected the nearby mountain villages just as severly as Port-au-Prince although you don’t hear much about it on the news.

    I know 12 workers at the Baptist Haiti Mission in Fermathe just @ 10 miles south of Port-au-Prince. Because this mission supports over 300 churches and 50,000 school children many naturally head to the mission. It is over run with desperate Haitians with needs of every kind. Fortunately the hospital was not damaged in the quake. For those of you who don’t know, most Haitians depend on filling cisterns with rain water to drink and the typical village family, if they are lucky, live in a one room cinder block house with a tin roof and dirt floor.

    I ‘m sorry I have gone on and on. It’s just because of the close ties I have there with locals I’ve met, friends, and the 4 children we have supported for 7 years. The Haitians are a strong people who have been in dire straits for decades. This earthquake was the last straw! I don’t know if yet if my kids are safe but I just keep doing what I can and pray.

    To see first hand photos and accounts from the locals go to http://www.bhm.org
    BHM is an approved donation organization just like the Red Cross!

  6. Thank you for your words of encouragement. Our family donated to Compassion International, and the kids are planning a neighborhood cocoa and cookie sale to earn money to send to Haiti.

  7. We are making baked goods for a sale this weekend. All the proceeds go to the Red Cross for Haiti Relief. I am going to try your recipe above. Thanks for posting it.

  8. We gave through IMB(International Mission Board) which is an entity of the Southern Baptist Convention. A Southern Baptist assessment team is working out logistics for a trip into Haiti early the week of Jan. 18 to connect with Haitian Baptist leaders and craft plans for disaster relief efforts.Initial funding for the relief effort is coming from the IMB’s disaster relief fund. New contributions toward the relief effort can be made online at the Haiti Response Fund.
    Apart from donating to the disaster relief fund, concerned individuals can help greatly by joining in focused prayer for Haiti’s people

  9. We donated to the red cross through the text to 90999 too. It is hard to know what to do in this situation- so we figured every little bit helps.

  10. GOSH! thanks for letting me know there’s others out there who are feeling and doing just like me. I guess I need to go to my ole neglected blog and type out those words too. I’ve even been weepy too. Not like me at all. We have given to the Red Cross and on our cell phone and I also contributed to Rebecca Sowers Haitian sales with the purchase of some soap. It just breaks my heart for those people and having been there back in 2006 and knowing how incredible they really are and walking through my house and looking at the bits of art I purchased from them back then makes it even harder. I just hope everyone everywhere takes the time to do one little thing for them and make a difference. thanks so much for your contribution and God Bless! Robin 🙂

  11. The fastest easiest way to help I’ve found… Text the word Haiti to 90999 to send $10 to the Red Cross. You can send multiple texts too!

  12. Feeling very inspired by all the ideas and recipes here.
    I’m on my way to school now and will organise the “Hot Chocolate for Haiti” idea as an after school fundraiser this week. I’ll bring the donation to OXFAM.

  14. Thanks for the great comments on Haiti. We all have broken hearts over their situation. I did make a contribution to their cause but wish I could do more like we all so. thanks

  15. We donated last Wednesday to the American red cross. We do every year. Thanks for the cupcake recipe and all you do. -Jennifer

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