What do you usually make for the baking stall?

[WhirlingStirling]

Just wondering...

Our Christmas Fayre is next Sat so shall be doing quite a bit of baking this week. I shall probably make at least one Lemon Drizzle cake, a couple of fruit loaves and a pile of Peppermint Creams.

If you are a baker, what do you usually make for the Baking Stall??

Muffins (most recently Maple and Pecan or Apple Spice Muffins)

Carnival club one last Saturday- Christmas cakes (1 big, 4 mini), mince pies, chocolate Christmas muffins and Nigella's Christmas muffins

StirlingWhirling's school fayre Thursday- as above butminus muffins, add in (I think) millionaires shortbread and flapjacks.

Dh sold the big cake to an elderly couple and I am worrying he didn't warn them how much theyhave been 'fed', iykwim....

I'd love to be able to bake

I'm going to attempt rocky road brownies (non cook so surely I won't be able to muck that up )

As someone who usually works on the cake stall, can I please beg you all to make simple iced fairy cakes, ideally pink with a chocolate button or jelly tot or similar on the top. These are easily the best sellers, and sell as fast as we can put them out. Personally, I'd rather eat your lovely lemon drizzle cake or a slice of fruit loaf, but I also know that when I am handing out the free cakes to the helpers clearing up when everyone is going home, it's all lemon slices and muffins, and never ever an iced fairy cake.

No co9z I am pa secretary and know what we sell LOL- plus I take orders for the 'central' stuff and the other parents stuff bulks it out (otherwise we get landed with 200 savers mince pies)

I make millionaires shortbread. It is a pain in the arse. I wish I could make fairy cakes but i did the shortbread once when I was in a bunting-cupcake mood and now the ptfa person hassles me to make them.

And they sell them for less than it costs to make.

I'm involved with the PTA and I'd never let anyone tell me what to make! I think you need to be a teensy bit more assertive.

mabanana - thank you for that tip. I will be baking on friday for the Christmas Fair on the sat and was considering a standard LDC tray bake. Will do fairy cakes instead now (although am thinking of chocolate ganache icing with a ponce-tastic edible snowflake on the top).

Can I make brownies, mabanana, or is it Pink or Nothing?

(I do now have some pink icing. Pink hearts again, d'you think?)

Yes prob. But they all make such a fuss and are quite charming about it that I find myself doing them.

But mabana I ask

I like baking

It makes me happy (like tequilla )

I can do assertive when I want

Mind, we never have any cakes left over at all.

Fairy cakes - definite maximum revenue for ingredient investment. I was dead chuffed that the last lot I did got priced (not by me, I hastent to add) at 2* the other fairy cakes and still sold within minutes

Sagacious - Mars Bar krispy cake (no baking) also sells well for good prices IME.

Will google, ta muchly stealth

Slubber - I did pale blue with snowflakes - v. well received.

i bet meringues would sell well. but i'm not very reliable at making them.

ooh stealthy, and I have some pale blue sugar paste left over.
V sophisticated esp with lustred snowflakes .

If I catch dirty children shoving them in their gobs I will have to have words with the cake lady.

I am known as "the cake lady" at our primary school. Every summer fayre and Christmas fayre I turn out aprox 200 fairy cakes, simply iced with as said choccy buttons, sprinkles, jelly diamonds etc and we NEVER have one left. What we end up giving away every time is the shop bought (dare I say it) cheapie stuff. Fairy cakes every time, and chocolate crackles!

I am saving my lustre spray for the teachers-present cakes, but snowflakes do look fab sprayed with it.

(and left-over pale blue sugarpaste is a lot cheaper than poncey chocolate ganache )

Indeed indeed stealthy.

Although surely you realise that providing cakes to raise funds is not just to taken on face value. There are ulterior motives at work

For the summer fayre I did marshmallows on a stick covered with chocolate and sprinkles a la starbucks. They sold out in seconds. biscuits with spotty icing sold well. I did a massive choc cake covered in ganache and decorated with white choc buttons which caused a row because the cake stall lady sold it to a helper before the fayre opened and the PTA lady had seen it and wanted to nick it for a raffle.

Well naturally Slubber, but if I can meet those incredibly strong ulterior motives at minimum cost, it makes me feel even more smug virtuous.

peachy, I was being bossy with Miyazaki not you
MI, do the pink fairy cakes. As a PTA cake lady ) who could make a millionaire's shortbread if you paid me, but would love to eat them, I promise you, you cannot go wrong with them!
Sprinkles, silver balls, sweets, choc buttons, all good!

LOLOL @ stealthy.

Yes great cakes and profits for charity and virtousness. It's a heady mix alright.