New Salem Bakery Creates 'Cupcakes For Ukraine'

SALEM, MA — A new Salem bakery is part of a growing list of North Shore businesses and civic groups showing their support for the people of Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.

Lulu's Bakery and Pantry, which opened on Derby Street last month, is offering cupcakes with blue and yellow frosting to match the flag of Ukraine with the goal of selling 1,000. The cupcakes sell for $3.50 with all money raised from those sales going to Chef Jose Andres World Central Kitchen's efforts to feed refugees at border crossings in Poland.

The bakery sold 82 of the cupcakes this past weekend — and more than 200 since beginning the campaign last week.

Lulu's co-owner Jim Economides said some customers are buying cupcakes, then contributing additional money for donation, as well as making a donation without purchasing the cupcakes at all.

He added that in some cases customers have bought several cupcakes and then handed them out to the next customers walking through the door as a welcome gift.

Lulu's joins the Salem Public Schools Multilingual Department, which is selling "Salem Stands With Ukraine" T-shirts as an organization raising money for Ukrainian relief. Money raised through the T-shirt campaign will go to Unicef's efforts to assist those displaced in the war.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)