Baking for a cake sale

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Making baked goods for a cake sale to fundraise and not sure what to make. Organiser is happy for me to make whatever I like. So, what are your best-selling items for a sale? Target markets are adults. If you are a customer, what would you like to buy?

I am a reasonable good baker, have lots of time, sale is on Wednesday. But low-cost is good to maximise profit!

ginger bread men.
mars bar squares
wookie-cookies

Shortbread

Fresh crusty bread rolls...

Cherry bake well cake, it's easy to make and you can stack it quite high and charge a good price so a big tall slice

lemon drizzle
millionaire's shortbread
I'm not sure gingerbread men are for an adult market?

Cheese straws and scones, sell them for lunch boxes.

Highly decorative but simply flavoured victoria sponges seem to be a hot favourite at fundraisers I've been involved with. (think using a doily and dust icing sugar over the top type of idea)

Chocolate eclairs are easy enough and great for adults.

Carrot cake
Small whole cakes to take home or cupcakes/portions to eat at the time.
Good bread - loaves or rolls.
Chocolate chip cookies
Oat & raisin cookies

Lemon drizzle, macaroons, flapjack, coffee and walnut cake, mini Victoria sandwiches. Well that's what I would buy anyway.

Some lovely ideas, thanks everyone.

Chocolate brownies (or even chocolate and beetroot)

Lemon drizzle

Millionaire shortbread

Carrot cake

Florentines

Scones (if they are to be consumed immediately and you can serve with jam and cream)

For some reason Red Velvet cupcakes always do really well.

coffee and walnut for me every time. yummy

Flapjacks
Cupcakes with loads of frosting on
Scones - square ones so you don't waste any dough!

The quickest movers at our bake sale was mini quiches and family sized freezable puddings (sticky toffee and upside down apple sponge).

Yes, crumbles are always good.
And Victoria sponges

Banana loaf (sliced) with a thick and heavy cream cheese frosting. Om nom nom.

Or just a light lemon drizzle with icing sugar sprinkled (will be cheaper)

Round here made up packs of 5 or 6 scotch pancakes seem to sell out quickly, good as they're so cheap to make.

Bara brith & Welsh cakes also very good sellers but that might be a local thing! (BB also pricey to make because of the dried fruit)

I did
Ginger biscuits
Lemon drizzle
Ginger cake
Millionaire's shortbread
Malteser fridge cake - sort of choc/syrup/butter/digestive base, dotted maltesers and walnut pieces alternately and then covered in white/dark and milk choc.

The malteser stuff was in fingers, the millionaire's stuff was in pieces about 10 x 15 cm, as sometimes the base breaks.

Was at a small local car boot sale, and the organisers included booze for the stall holders at lunch time. Seems to be the way it's done in rural France.

Cookies - Hummingbird have a good recipe for the squidgey ones that ooze out.
Brownies.
Traybakes.
Crispy crackle cakes - they seem to grow legs and walk off the stand whenever they appear at a cake sale.

I did a load of cakes for a sale recently and the ones that sold best were carrot cake (always seems popular!) and anything that presumably people thought looked nice, including a load of cupcakes I just piped a swirl of buttercream on and then stuck sweets on for the kids, loads of adults bought them for themselves! I also did a choc orange tray bake with slices of chocolate orange on the top (you can always get them cheaply) and they were popular too.