Bake sale ideas

[Nicpem1982]

Through work I've been roped into making some cakes for a bake sale at one of our local special schools

I'm happy to do this but would like some ideas I tend to make ott American style cakes and bakes think huge cupcakes, layered cheese cake brownies, grass hopper pie and I'm not sure they'd be practical

Has anyone got any suggestions?

Some butterfly cakes always go down well, I find. They only have to be small. Alternatively you could buy some plain fairy cakes from Tesco and decorate them?

Yawning I don't mind baking and I really want to do something the school will do well out of they go above and beyond for the children that attend there

Find out what prices they go for before you start. If they tend to sell for c. 20p, make more basic cakes with marge, blob of icing and a sweet on and don't get carried away.

That's assuming it's a fundraiser.

That's a good point zebra

Since our school sell cakes 5 for £1 I tend to buy the plain fairy cakes put a bit of icing and a chocolate button on top or I make rice crispy cakes.

I will ask the organisers I'm at the school this week on a work matter

Fairy/cup cakes with icing and a sweet or sprinkles on, always go first. Then large cookies or our schools favourite ginger bread.

I find fairy cakes easier and if it’s kids doing the buying make them nice and big. Small bits of brownie flapjack or fudge may be nice in a cafe setting but wasted at a school bake sale! 😂

Iced gingerbread men with smarties/jelly-tot buttons
Rocky road
Chocolate Rice Krispie cakes
Cookies on a stick

Tray bakes are best bet.

A favourite at my work is a school dinner style caramel cake. Base of crushed up digestive and melted butter (maybe a wee bit of syrup) and tinned carnation caramel with chocolate sprinkles. Easy and no actual baking required.

Also top hats that could sell for 10p. Marshmallow dipped in melted chocolate with a smartie on top!

One of the best sellers at our cake stall were plain digestive biscuits, which we covered with icing (sometimes coloured icing), then decorated with a wide variety of sprinkles, jellytots, smarties etc. The more outrageous they looked, the faster they sold!

They were best sellers because they were always slightly cheaper than the fairy cakes.

Something that I've seen sell well are bakes with well known favourites in them - so oreo/creme egg brownies, cupcakes with maltesers on top and then vanilla sponge (either cupcakes or traybake) with bright coloured icing and edible glitter

If you can find edible eyes or use chocolate drops for eyes, anything with a face goes down well. Don't use blue icing, it's the least popular.

The thing that sells best at my work when we do charity bake sales is pots of angel delight.

I buy plastic glasses and spoons from poundshop, make up a couple of packs of angel delight, fill the glasses on site, pop them in the fridge for a bit then squirty cream and sprinkles.

They disappear in minutes.

I think school bake sales don't actually make money.
The person buying the ingredients always spends more than the stall brings in. You'd really just be better donating upfront.

Brownies & blondies sell really well at DS's school - especially flavoured ones like Jaffa, Oreo etc.