to be dead chuffed that my offerings were first to sell out at the cake sale?

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I'm a regular baker at home and I think my stuff tastes OK but I have zero artistic talent, so anything I've tried to decorate looks ropey TBH.

This year I had the brain wave of making gingerbread men - no artistic talent required and children love them.

I wasn't at the sale, but DS2 is on the School Council and was doing the "selling". He was really proud because our gingerbread men sold out first.

I know it's ridiculous, but can I enjoy this small achievement?

yay!!! well done

Not at all, nothing more galling than spending time home baking for nursery or school cake sales then having your efforts sold off as part of a job lot at the end! After years of research I have discovered that fairy cakes with bright pink icing and silver balls go very quickly!

I've discovered topping with warmed chocolate spread and dipped in almost anything, is quick & easy and sells quickly

Well done you.

Do you have any leftover?

cargirl warmed chocolate spread, that's one I hadn't thought of! [wonders when there will next be an opportunity to try it]

Large jar of tesco's own cheapest, 30 second zap in the microwave. For bonfire cakes dip into crushed up crunchies, for school dip into rainbow drops (much cheaper!)

YANBU! Ds2 and I were exactly the same when our cakes were the first to go at the Christmas Fair last week

I make good stuff usually, thought to make something different. Pasteis de Nata, banana cake, fairy cakes, biscuits..

chose a Annabel Flaming Karmel recipe didn't I??. white choc, oats, fruit and crispies syrup butter and sugar. They were delicious... but clearly not enticing...

The buggers were still there when I left the fair...

I'll do flaming chocolate topped fairy cakes next time, if they look to blooming healthy, no bugger buys them.

Everything Annabel Karmel I have ever made, or my friend has slaved over for her DS has never had any success. I will now never cook anything she does... learned my lesson!

Well done OP, brilliant, gingerbread men, well made, are hard to top.

YANBU - Congratulations this also happened to me at my DS's preschool concert maybe not the first but must have been second or third (it was a whole cake). I am not usually a baker so was amazed and very pleased!!! Was going to post yesterday about it - so it is not ridiculous at all!!

YABU because the stuff I made was sold off cheap at the end and they were bloody delicious as dc and I had extensively sampled them. Hrumph.