You know how bake sales allow you to look over lots of delicious treats and select the best to share with your friends and family without all the mess? And then you also get to support to a very worthy cause at the same time?

Well, that’s sort of how it is with the Virtual Great American Bake Sale.

Except with this bake sale, you  get to take home 170 treats to share… well, sort of.

The Virtual Great American Bake Sale features 5 ebooks of tried and true recipes for you to peruse and prepare for your family and friends. All the mess has already been made. The experimenting is over and only the yummy stuff remains. And you can get your hands on it easily and benefit a worthy cause at the same time. What could be better?

100% of the proceeds from the sale of these ebooks will go toward Share Our Strength’s Great American Bake Sale program. Funds raised through Great American Bake Sale are donated to after-school and summer feeding programs–food programs that many kids depend on when school is not in session. Great American Bake Sale is a program of Share Our Strength, a national organization working to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry.

Like I said, the ebooks are a compilation of real, already tried recipes from submitters across the blogosphere and beyond. The ebooks are available for purchase based on any donation amount of the buyer’s choosing.

Take a look at all the treats at THIS bake sale…

The Complete 2009 VGABS Recipes Ebook

Features all 170 of the submitted recipes. Many of the recipes include pictures.

On the checkout page, manually change the amount (USD) field to your donation amount.

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Because we know file size may be an issue for some, the below ebooks have split the 170 recipes into 4 categorized ebooks so that you can choose just 1 or 2 of your favorites, if you’d prefer. Just like for the Complete ebook, many of these recipes include pictures. And again, they are available for purchase based on any donation amount of the buyer’s choosing.

Muffins & Breads

Features 24 recipes.

On the checkout page, manually change the amount (USD) field to your donation amount.

Cookies, Candy, Cakes, Bars & Brownies

Features 50 recipes.

On the checkout page, manually change the amount (USD) field to your donation amount.

Desserts

Features 49 recipes.

On the checkout page, manually change the amount (USD) field to your donation amount.

Beyond Baked Goods (Appetizers, Breakfast, Main Dishes, etc.)

Features 47 recipes.

On the checkout page, manually change the amount (USD) field to your donation amount.

And to tempt your tummy some more, here’s a sneak peak at one of the treats I submitted:

But there are many, many more yummy and delicious things in there….

So get clicking… and get baking… all while helping a very worthy cause.