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Cupcakes for fire victims? Yes! Doing it as a fundraiser? Yes!
That’s right, Winchester High School junior Alanna Lee is making Valentine’s Day cupcakes and donating the money to the World Central Kitchen to help those dealing with the effects of the California wildfires.
Lee has been baking for charity since she was in middle school when she raised $1,000 for a dyslexia organization. During COVID-19, she raised money for the Greater Boston Food Bank.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation was Lee’s freshman year charity — she made chocolate bombs, but switched to cupcakes this year.
“I like baking,” Lee says, “and it’s fun to make them for birthdays. For my younger sister Kenzie’s Muraco graduation, I made 160 cupcakes for the students.”
The first cake Lee recalls baking was for her mother’s birthday.
“I made her a really bad cake,” she confesses, adding that during COVID, “I baked a lot!”
The Forest Street resident says baking is a good outlet for when she’s feeling stressed. One of her other outlets is teaching swimming at Little Flippers Swim School.
Lee’s goal is to sell 30 boxes of a dozen cupcakes at $24 a box. They can be ordered until the end of January on her Instagram or Facebook .
Asked if she’d like to be a professional baker, Lee says, “It’s a tough industry to get into” and her favorite school subjects are the sciences.
