Indianna Foster (right) and her assistant Tyra Morphette hard at work yesterday icing cupcakes.
Indianna Foster (right) and her assistant Tyra Morphette hard at work yesterday icing cupcakes.
The SPCA in Kaitaia is about to receive a bag of cash, thanks to the school holiday efforts of 12-year-old Kaitaia Intermediate School pupil Indianna Foster.
She and schoolmate Tyra Morphette were hard at work yesterday icing another 203 cupcakes, having already turned out 170-odd in the family kitchen atLake Ngatu for customers including Paparore School, just across the lake, friends and family and businesses in Kaitaia.
Even for a youngster with a soft spot for animals, this was a massive effort, Indi's mum Rachael Foster said.
Who would be doing the dishes, and mopping the somewhat sticky kitchen floor, had not been resolved yesterday, but she was a very proud mum.
The process had been made a little easier by dipping into ready-to-use sponge mix, but icing some 300 cupcakes was a mission, and wouldn't leave much at the bottom of a 12.5kg bag of icing sugar.
Icing included blueberry, chocolate, lime, cookies and cream, while each cake was topped with a chocolate paw print or bone.
The process began by making posters and soliciting orders, with the results of a school holiday very well spent due to be delivered to the SPCA later this week.
