Daughter wants to do a cake stall aibu to say no?

Aw that's lovely!

I'm so glad you didn't let all the moaning minnies on here put you off

We did this with cookies for Ukraine - my girl raised about £300 which was amazing. Good luck to your little one xx

Awww but your daughter will remember that you supported her and helped make her idea happen! Hopefully you kept some non-fingered bits of cake at home as compensation.

Do tell us about the time you had a cake sale and it went terribly wrong 🙄. If it was as bad as you say it must have been in the news so you can just post a link if that’s easier.

I’ll wait.

My daughter raised loads doing a fun cake sale - we just did donations in return for cakes (all for charity)- we invited friends/family/neighbours and people were very generous (we made a poster with a QR code to donate to the justgiving page). She's desperate to do it again but need to have some time pass first as people won't be so generous so soon after! She should go for it!

Good god, some of the responses on here!

She's 5 y/o having a little bake sale for fun... she's not going on Dragon's Den! Jesus wept!

OP I think it's a lovely idea.

I can't imagine a small child doing a bake sale requires the necessary paperwork or insurance any more than the parents baking for a school fete or sports day do.

My little girl did this, I was not keen, we only got pity sales, I saw some neighbours walk a different way round so as not to pass us, half way through her friends came by and fingered all the cakes without buying and then my daughter ran off with them to play and did not come back, leaving me sat like a weirdo with the melting ‘cakes’.

Yay, the wet blanket award in the first 10 posts!!! Congratulations!

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I would invite friends and family for a tea and cake party. It's great fun.

We often bake and bring to church for refresments after the service. Everyone is invited to. But of course it works best as a churchgoing family.

Why did you say that it needed to be for charity? What was wrong with her doing it for a bit of extra money for herself?

I hope some of the responses here are a joke, I just imagine these sweet little children wanting to do something like this, but you lot bogging down their attempt with red tape and health inspections 😂.

My god, I remember once when we were kids, we found a load of abandoned crap dumped in the communal bin chutes, using it we built a ‘shop’ on the green selling orange squash for 10p a cup, some council workers took pity on us and bought some, it’s only now I’m worrying about where we got the plastic cups from, hopefully someone’s mum! 😂

You may send some auditors to track us down and make sure we declared the tax on the 30p we made in 1991! 😂

If a child did this on my street, I'd probably buy one to show support , but it would go in the bin at home.

oh come on!! It is a childs bake sale!! retired chef here. Very aware of the "rules" Yes sometimes children lick the batter spoon and put their fingers in things. When I lived in Canada, all summer there was garage sales (like a boot sale but in their driveways or garages) every weekend. If I saw a child selling something, I would buy it! I would also normally bin it after, but once in a while I could not resist and ate it. Still alive.

Are you for real 😂

I somehow missed that OP’s DD is 5 😅

Suggesting that she uses it as a way to raise money for charity is still a great idea imo.
My cousins and I used to do that with flowers from our gardens when we were little. It was so much fun!

Encouraging children to donate a certain percentage of their money seems fairly standard to me, so why not do it with the cake sale as well?

You don't need insurance for a one off charity event such as this. Yes, a list of ingredients would be a good idea so people can check for allergens. Flapjacks can easily be made gluten and dairy free, but she shouldn't restrict herself. She could make lemonade as well - easy to make up a batch of syrup and add ice and water.

Agree its a lovely idea but if anything goes wrong and you haven't considered these then there are potentially some very bad outcomes.

Its a shame but that's the world these days.

Maybe do the stall the next time relatives are visiting.

If she's 5 I wouldn't tbh.

I have maybe 3p in coppers. It's not that common to carry cash about these days.

You didn't mention her age in the opening post so I started off thinking if she's teenage and trying to raise money for something this is a great idea and very entrepreneurial.

Then I saw the update that's she's only 5! No... she's too young to understand the concept of the financial transaction involved. Rather than encourage a sale and donate to charity, why not do the baking together and give the cakes as a little gift to the neighbours instead. She still gets to do the baking that she enjoys, she still gets to do something charitable and see the joy, but you spare her the awkwardness of what if she doesn't sell many.

Unless she’s exceptionally advanced at maths, she’s unlikely to be able to calculate that at 5year old. If somehow it makes the game more fun to have real money, OP could empty the 1p coins from her purse and pass them out to the kids to use to buy the cakes. Probably cheaper that buying play money to be honest.

We used to do this during the summer holidays, we'd go scrumping and pick blackberries and raspberries (and all the damsons of one of the parents trees, they were t happy!), bag them up and sell them for sweet money.