please can you give me ideas for what to bake for the school summer fund-raising type day?

[Aefondkiss]

preferably nothing too complicated, I am not great at baking cakes, but I would like something I could do with my dd too.

tia.

, not so chippyminton. How many cake stalls have you actually run, eh EH?!

(I'm actually a veteran of cake stalls and it's the big cakes that draws the punters!)

well I am running THE baking stall today(later on) and in my view it will be my patter that will draw the crowds!

not my disastrous chocolate cake, which looks okay now it is covered in chocolate fudge icing(apart from the hole in the middle of it it is a ring cake honest!) ... my choc chip and cranberry cookies will disappear like sna' off a dyke, because there are so few of them and well I think I might have to bake more often because they were/are scrummy even though I did improvise (the reason all my baking is not hugely successful!)

sorry hmc, I am giving up baking cakes until I become more methodical, my mum will just have to be in charge of loaf cakes.

do what i did; buy ready made cake mix from twatrose, bake it, when it fails to rise, cover it in tinned fruit and jelly stuff and pass it off as a flan.
dont however, send it in on a plate you ever want to see again, even with a sticker on the bottom saying who it belongs to.
to be fair, they probably deserve the plate for paying all that money for a shit pudding, but there you are. such is life.

That's interesting hmc, I guess it depends on the type of fete. So for example how much would you charge for:
classic victoria sponge
iced fairy cake
slice of tray bake eg LDC?

I'm no expert BTW, I just supply the goodies

Probably about 10 -30p for an iced fairy cake, depending on how elaborate it is (the children tend to pay for them from pocket money), and £3 (sometimes £4) for the larger cakes - they just seems to attract the punters to the stall (and the loaf style, bigger cakes all tend to get sold within the first half hour or so!) But all the cakes sell in the end and all have their place . I love the cake stall, there is no effort required to sell your wares, they sell themselves

Lol Aefondkiss, but very impressed that you so tenaciously kept having a go at baking. I'm sure a lot of the other parents will provide you with cakes - some will probably bring them along on the day

Just back from the fete. My 4 dozen iced fary cakes were sold for 50p each . That's £24. The same ingredients would've made 2 jam & cream filled VSC and raised £8. So that was good

Just back from ours! We raised £200 on the cake store. The big cakes sold for £3-4 and were gone within half an hour . All the cakes went after 1 and a half hours. My small banana loaf sold for £3, took me 10 minutes to prepare (basically chuck all the ingredients together, blend with electric whisk thingy and dump in loaf container, then bake in oven), so I am going to make half a dozen next year....

Am thinking we should have sold our fairly cakes for 40p / 50p rather than 30p. Will try that next year...

How did you do Aefondkiss?

If you're doing anything with icing, avoid bright and lurid colours. They always get left.

well done hmc... not sure how much we made because I had to leave early to help my SIL move house, have been out of the house since the back of nine this morning and just got home,half an hour ago... I am shattered.

I think it went okay, though I have never seen a cake stall run this way, but they opened up all the cakes etc, put them out on plates and sliced up the loaf cakes and people were given a bag and charged 20p per cake, 30p for popcorn, 50p for a tub of strawberries...

millionaire shortbread was very, very popular, my flapjacks and gingerbread men sold well enough, I thought gingerbread men were a faff to make, but the children were drawn to them, so I would do them again, with even more icing and gum drop buttons etc.

I enjoyed doing some of the baking and it was nice helping out... now I have signed up for the parent council I will get my fill of fund-raising events I think!

thanks for the advice.

Can we hang up our pinnies for another year now, or do Xmas fairs have cake stalls too?

Our school has cake stalls at every available opportunity! We've just had the school summer fete and next week is parent consultations. We don't sell cakes as such but provide tea, coffee and homemade cakes and just ask for a donation if anyone wants to make one. So more baking for me next week. And, yes, Chippy, we have a cake stall at the Christmas fair too!