Depressed Cakeshop SG

It’s almost the end of the month and we have 3 more events lined up. Last year, we were forced to pivot and everything had to be done virtually - online bake sales, online campaigning and virtual zoom bakealongs. With things opening up this year, our aim has been to actively engage with the community and have conversations in person. 

It has been extremely rewarding. We got a chance to meet so many kind bakers and generous donors along the way, starting with our very first pop-up bake sale in Jurong earlier this month, followed by two successful celebrity bake auctions (although virtually, it was exciting to see the bids coming in). 

Here’s a quick summary 👆🏼of what we are up to this week, our last week of May. We have two Cookie Conversation sessions - a bakealong in Tampines on Friday and a decorating sesh on Sunday in Woodlands, and will be there too to share about mental health and wellness.

In between we have a grey yin yoga session at Botanic Gardens, a great way to kickstart the weekend mindfully. Bring a mat and join us at 8am, we’ll be at Lawn E, opposite Swan Lake.

See you this weekend! 🫶🏼

Ps. To donate directly to the campaign, swipe to scan the QR code or go to giving.sg/campaigns/dcs2022

Come join our free ‘Grey’ Yin Yoga session, led by our good friend and mental health advocate Alce Patricia. Alce is a certified Yoga instructor who is Grey gifting her yoga practice to anyone who wishes to join her as her way of giving to the   movement. We offered this practice virtually last year (because ) and we had so many join us on zoom. It was such a great way to start the weekend, so we are super excited this year to be able to do this in person at the Botanic Gardens!

Yin Yoga is a great way to slow down and be present, a mindful practice with simple breath work and calming postures that is beneficial for our mental health. 

So bring a mat and perhaps wear something grey with a pop of colour and join us at :

⌚️8am, Saturday 28 May
📍Lawn E (opposite Swan Lake)
Singapore Botanic Gardens

We hope you’ll enjoy the class and also support our campaign by helping us to raise funds and awareness for mental health issues. Swipe to scan the QR code to donate.

         

We are super excited for this event with MP Hany Soh and happening this Sunday at Woodgrove!

Cookie Conversations with Depressed Cake Shop is a fun cookie decorating workshop coupled with some sharing and chatting about mental health.

Baking is a great form of therapy for mental stresses and decorating your bakes is often a part of that process. We personally have found baking to be a wonderful outlet for destressing and centering ourselves whilst in the process.

A problem shared is often a problem halved. Talking about it can also be a great relief. But unfortunately, there is still a stigma surrounding mental health, and many are afraid, unsure or too embarrassed to share.

Let’s come together and get those conversations going while we decorate our cookies, and stop the stigma with us. We can be the change, it all starts from home.

We’ll be baking and bringing you some delicious vanilla cookies to work on, all you need to do is make the icing (don’t worry we’ll teach you) and get ready to get creative and have fun.

See you Sunday at Fuchun Community Club! Swipe to the last slide for details on how to register ! 🙏🏼

   

It’s the weekend peeps and we are super excited to announce our second celebrity bake auction! Please welcome chef, host and content creator Sarah Huang Benjamin to the Depressed Cake Shop fam!

The multi-hyphenate talent is offering her gorgeous 3-colour Challah loaf up for auction to support our cause. Strands of yellow from turmeric, black from charcoal and pink from beetroot form this beautiful braided Challah loaf that is soft, chewy and absolutely delicious, like a brioche but better!

Starting bid at $150.
Link in bio for the auction form. 

The online auction opens now, Saturday 21 May and closes at 9pm on Tuesday 24 May.

We thank you in advance for bidding generously to help raise funds and awareness for Mental Health this May. All funds raised go to the Singapore Association for Mental Health .

Winner to be announced at 9.30pm on Tuesday, we will contact you by phone too, so do check that your contact details are accurate. The Challah will be delivered to you on Saturday 28 May.

Happy Hump Day!
We have got some adorAble Depressed Cake Shop aprons, enamel pins and iron-on patches featuring our Sad Grey Cupcake logo. 100% of of proceeds from these limited edition items go to .

We love these because “where there is cake, there is hope, and there is always cake!”

DM us to order, or email us at [email protected]

Please continue to check out our vendors, scroll our feed to find them and order their pledged treats to brighten up yours and perhaps someone’s day 🌈

If you’d like to donate directly, head to our campaign page at www.giving.sg/campaigns/dcs2022. Link in bio.

🙏🏼🖤 thank you in advance for your support, every little bit counts. We hope you’re having a good week, and if you’re not it’s okay, we are halfway through it - hang in there!

✨BAKE AUCTION ANNOUNCEMENT✨♥️

We are super excited to announce our first online bake auction this year for Depressed Cake Shop. We are so honoured to have Christopher Tan, celebrated author of the award-winning heritage food book The Way of Kueh. Not only has authored and co-authored many cookbooks, like Ask The Foodie, and NerdBaker, Christopher is also a cooking instructor and a photographer. He loves making meaning with words, images and food.

Very much in theme for us, Christopher has kindly offered to bake us his Pulut Hitam Chiffon Cake. He describes it as a tall and airy chiffon cake, with the distinctive fragrance of pulut hitam (black glutinous rice) and coconut, and a soft, tender texture.

Starting bid at $150.
Auction form here https://forms.gle/s1ig2VXYq7M6Fhxq9
The online auction opens now, Thursday 12 May and closes at 9pm on Sunday 15 May.

We thank you in advance for bidding generously to help raise funds and awareness for Mental Health this May. All funds raised go to the Singapore Association for Mental Health .

Winner to be announced at 9.30pm on Sunday, we will contact you by phone too, so do check that your contact details are accurate. Kindly note that the delivery of the Pulut Hitam Chiffon Cake will be in June. 



We are so HAPPY to welcome the newest addition to the Depressed Cake Shop family - Happy Cioccolato! (Just saying their name makes us feel a little more cheery!🤗)

When Jo from Happy Cioccolato first reached out to us we were thrilled because we never had a chocolate partner before. And chocolates as dark as they may seem, are also great mood elevators. They are such a great fit for Depressed Cake Shop don’t you think?

Not only are ‘s chocolates handmade in micro batches in Singapore, they are infused with some TCM goodness to help boost health, beauty and happiness.

We love that Jo will be pledging their Black Sesame Chockies, crammed with their signature dark chocolate in an oozy centre. It’s seasonal special and we can’t be more excited for you to try them out. 

Order online at www.happycioccolato.com

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✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨

The Clean Addicts has just added one more item to their list of pledged bakes for Depressed Cake Shop. This gorgeous cake looks so dark and moist, with a sprinkle of rose and pistachios on top, pretty much sums up our tagline - Where there is cake, there is hope… and there is always cake! 

Andrea has kindly added her Vegan Matcha x Sesame Fudge Cake. A portion of proceeds from now til end May from this gorgeous yummy cake will go to .

This black beauty is suitable for diabetics too! Order now at website for your next gathering, and we hope it will get conversations going about mental health.



It’s been a day and a half but it’s Hump Day, so we couldn’t let it end without announcing yet another vendor for this year’s DCS! 

Please welcome back DCS alum Sucre & Co 👏
Sucre & Co offers gorgeous customised sweet treats from beautifully piped royal icing cookies to cakesicles and strawberries covered in white chocolate, are you drooling yet?

For  ’s campaign this year, Sucre & Co will be pledging a few special items - starting with Cookies On A Stick - how cute are they? More treats will be announced next week. For now, order your Cookie On A Stick via  ‘s IG. ♥️ A portion of proceeds will go to the Singapore Association for Mental Health .

Stay tuned for more info on our upcoming pop-up bakesale happening this Saturday 2-5pm at the MINDSET Learning Hub Cafe at Jurong East. Deets in previous post and stories, come pick up a grey bake or two and say hi! We’ve got coffee and some cute merch too and all funds raised will go to the   .

                     

Wake up and smell that coffee because we have got a coffee vendor this year people! OMG how excited are we. We love our morning coffees and we are so stoked to have homegrown coffee brand Hook join the Depressed Cake Shop family this year.

Since their launch in 2016, Hook Coffee’s mission has been to make great and responsible coffee accessible to everyone. They source ethically produced and sustainably grown beans from the world's best farms. Their coffees are freshly roasted each week and we love that they have so many different, unique and quirky taste profiles to choose from. 

They have kindly pledged “For Cake’s Sake” Coffee Bags sold at their Hook Coffee @ Lau Pa Sat outlet and via email (just email Sam at [email protected]) from 7-31 May. These limited edition bags (specially themed in grey for us) will also be available at our Pop-Up Charity Bake Sale next Saturday 7th May at the MINDSET Learning Hub Cafe (details below). So do pop by and pick up a bag, a portion of proceeds from the pledged coffee bags will go to SAMH.

✨PLEASE POP BY ✨
DEPRESSED CAKE SHOP POP-UP BAKE SALE
🗓 Saturday 7 May, 2-5pm
📍MINDSET Learning Hub Cafe
 Blk 257 Jurong East St 24
 #01-405 S(600257)

        


We are so pleased to welcome another new addition to our Depressed Cake Shop family - Stella’s Kitchen. Writer and Senior Lecturer by day, Bibik Baker by night, Stella’s inquisitive mind extends to her kitchen too and she went from zero to Sourdough hero in a record few months with orders that have been keeping her Doughlette very busy. 

We love Stella’s tenacity and candid sharing of her experience with depression, and how working with had helped her. Today, mental health issues are near and dear to her heart and we are so happy to have her support for this year’s DCS campaign. 

Stella has pledged 31 loaves of handmade Heart-Shaped sourdough loaves, available in one of two flavours, one for each day in the month of May.

Kindly WhatsApp 9846 0214 to order. Do get your orders in early as her dates will fill up pretty quick - plus it’ll also give her time to make sure her starter Doughlette is well-fed!

A portion of proceeds will go to the Singapore Association for Mental Health 

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