#9845 to be a bit disappointed that the school cake sale was full of nasty mageriney fake cakes.

[minkychunky]

You know, the ones that have magarine/cream not butter cream fillings and crappy fridge cakes.

I feel like such a mug I was asked to contribute and told (exactly)what kind of things to make which I duly did (and it cost a small fortune) Then the stuff I had made was sold off at the same price as the other rubbish(which they couldn't shift).

Go on call me a snobby beetch- I know what I will be making next year

I mis-read that as full of nasty maggots {{{{{{goes off to book appointment at optician}}}}}

I love it if my cakes get chosen first!

i did that ONCE

i baked cakes in the spirit of the school fete

to find mr fucking kipling all over hte place

never again!

I think you best had

It was my DD's (age 6) summer fair last Saturday and we were asked to take in cakes. My DD loves making cakes and rather than buying a cake mixture to make, I thought we would make some from scratch and she could decorate them with smarties/buttons/jelly tots, etc.

Anyway, I am not a very good 'chef' (to put it mildly) and although the cakes turned out okay (not burnt, not doughy), the icing left a bit to be desired. It was a bit running and ran off the sides. My youngest DD decorated the cakes and my eldest DD asked if we were taking all the cakes for the school fair as they looked delicious. Because we had made enough for 18 cakes, I said the children could have 1 each (there were 5 of them at the time) and I tried one. The rest I took into school.

We didn't make it to the school fair because the children were at their dads (and he lives too far away - and the kids don't enjoy the school fair anyway) but at least I had contributed by making cakes.

The school has a cake sale this afternoon for nursery/reception to make/take cakes and my biggest concern is that when I go there this afternoon to buy my youngest a bag of cakes (eldest is on work experience at her dad's and son is in Isle of Wight with the school) I am expecting to find the cakes that I made for the cake sale on sale this afternoon!

I remember when my eldest was about 7 and I made cakes for her birthday party. All the children took at least one because they looked good but most children did not eat them - took one bite and left them.

What were you asked to make, tis naughty to sell cheap if the effort and that has gone in.

Just think lesson learnt though and do exactly what you want next time. If there is a next time

Yes Custardo that is exactly what I did. it was Kiplingtastic.

I think I am turning into my mum- I am wallowing in my martyrdom Ha- ha!

Or put yourself on the cke stall and tell them you will price the blardy cakes as they undersold them last year and lost money for the fete. (bossy britches emotion)

Seems a bit out of order to give instructions on cake making. I always head straight for the cake stall and buy the most lopsided cakes as I know they are home made, but I do think they should charge more of a premium for them. But then there is some ingredient in shop bought sponge type cakes (even the most expensive) that I really don't get on with.

Bunble I am not a good chef either.

I think this is more about feeling like I have been had. I only have a small selection of stuff I do regularly because the kids like to help.

I was asked to make double chocolate cookies
Coconut and raspberry cookies
Choc/ shortbread
X 2 victoria sponges with fresh cream
x1 coconut sponge with fresh cream

I always think pricing is a bit of an issue with cake stalls. I have now given up doing fancy iced biscuits which took me ages because they would go on sale for 10p each. Once I did lots of really pretty butterfly shaped ones for a church fete, which took a) money and b)time and they stuck 6 on a plate for 50p. I was hoping they could charge £1 each for them (they were quite big) and actually make some money. People pay more than that for single iced cookies in shops.

And I saw someone bring a cake in, all beautifully presented and they decided to charge £1.50 for it, when they could have asked quite a lot more. On questioning I was told that people expect a bargain at fete cake stalls. In which case why not just donate cost of ingredients straight to church/school as they would get more cash out of it. (OK I know it's not the whole point, but even so).

Don?t be peeved at those parents that made the effort either to make margerine cream ones or bought - at least they bothered! Get mad at those who could not be arsed at all to help and those people putting stickers on them unevenly pricing them..
Although, thinking about it, bit tricky to price differently as I can imagine the response" Oy! Why is my lovely cake only got £1 on it when Mrs XX has got £3.50? eh??? Whats wrong with my effort you cow!?!"

Yes I see your point but 30p a slice of fresh cream cake and then 30p for a slice of Mr Kipling.

It is not rocket science!

I would have rather given them the money for the cost of making the cakes TBH. They would have got at least 3 times more what they charged for the stuff.

My point exactly minky!

Well I've just spend the morning unpacking:

Cheap bought cakes of every kind
2 or 3 good quality bought cakes (organic/M&S)
A load of 'bought' homemade cakes, Dora, Dora, Dora, Dora.
A load of child homemade Horrors!

10 beautifully homemade fabulous high quality cakes. We price those the highest and they will be sold first at the best price. We price all the cheap stuff as cheap stuff and have trays of cupcakes for kids to buy at 10p a throw.

I think every kind of cake is welcome, they'll all sell.

People who make homemade are wonderful, we've been respecting them all morning and they'll make the school more money!

The Mr Kipling cake might be nicer. You may all be super-star bakers but the rubbish that gets brought to our school cake stall! The wonky burnt on one side buns. And those things made with cornflakes. I mean, really. I'd rather eat a Fondant Fancy.

I get really excited by those school fete cakes as we never have them at home and I know they are full of cr*p but yummy for one day surely?Pink icing and jam etc

NFK! No this was really lovely stuff, I even made it look buntingtastico (this is all new to me)I bought bags and ribbon ( I was told it would be nice to present them nicely) Thunk!

And it wasn't sold as more expensive it was the same blinkin' price!

Ah nobody died I suppose I'll have to find something really awful to be worried about!

Echo echo!

I'll buy some of your cakes then. I need something for tea.

I think telling you exactly what to make is a bit off. but...

It's a fine balance between charging at the right price and overcharging.

I ran the cake stall at our fete this year and like some on here I was also of the opinion that you could charge decent price for the cakes. But on the whole people aren't prepared to pay.

The way we priced was that we priced the big home-made cakes between 3-£4, the shop-bought ones were between 1-£1.50, the shop bought little cakes/biscuits were between 50-75p, and the home-made fairy cakes/biscuits were 10p each with the bigger chocolate muffins/cookies between 20/25p. I took over £130 on my cake stall. That's £130 the school wouldn't have had, and it's all money that hasn't cost us anything - people who make cakes do so by means of a donation, it is peoples' individual choice to bake or buy.

I also thought that we could charge more than 10p for individual home-made fairy cakes, but people lose sight of is that the people usually buying the little cakes are the kids with their little pocket money bags where they have been given a pound or two to spend and so 10p is a lot when you've only got 50p-£1.

The home-made cakes and the fairy cakkes sold far better than the shop-bought ones.

And people definitely like the home-made ones - I had two people in a bidding war for my coffee and walnut cake .

But I definitely think that littler cakes are more the way to go, and don't stop baking, because people do love them, and even if they only sell for 10p each, those 10p's add up to the £130+ the school wouldn't have otherwise.

Your school would probably pay me NOT to make them a cake. Me and cake baking are not the best of mates and I don't believe anyone would part with good money for one of my offerings (dd once asked when I gave her one of my lovingly baked cupcakes, "what is it mummy?"....."a cake"......."are you sure?" This was long ago I have since given up baking.

Wannabe of course I understand but I will only buy very cheap stuff for next year and paper plates and I will make what I want.

God your cakes are so pricey compared to these ones. The whole cakes I made went for £1.50 (they were massive 9" jobbies )

I'll make for your stall instead

BTW (just because I am still sore) what would you have charged for giant choc cookies the size of your hand)

I think they are kept cheap so kids can buy them aren't they? They all come running up with their 10p pieces and buy stuff.

If I ruled the world, I would ban school cake sales. Dreadful, dreadful things.