Prices for charity cake stall

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I've been asked to run the cake stall at a charity fair next week but I've got no idea how much to sell things for.
There'll be whole cakes in a variety of sizes, home-made fudge in small bags and some individual fairy cakes, mince pies etc. How much should we be charging for them? I don't want to sell them for too little but I don't want to be left with loads of unsold cakes either!

At our school fairs we do the following :-
4 x fairy cakes, mince pies £1
Lge cakes £2
Fudge £1
Too many prices get everyone confused.
Plate everything up and its much easier to sell. Also don't forget a disclaimer sign to say things may contain nuts.

I've just got back from a school fete. Fairy cakes were 20p or 25p each. Big family sized cakes were about £2.

I just got back and small cakes/buns were 30p each. Whole cakes were £2 up to about £4 depending onsize and lushiousness!

At a school cake sale recently, it was £1 for a paper bag which you could fill with cakes. Typically you got 4 or 5 fairy cakes / cornflake cakes in it.

If you don't know at this stage how many cakes and of what size you may have to sell, then probably best to have a variety of methods of sale. Towards the end of the sale you could so, stuff as much in a paper bag as you can for £1... so you are not left with cake.

I have been to 2 today and will be running our school's baking stall next week.

Keep numbers round - it is easier when giving change - so 20p or 30p for small cakes and, as others have said, loaf cakes £2 and larger sandwich cakes, £3 or £4 depending on looks, ingredients etc (we get some that have only used organic ingredients so we charge more sometimes).

If you are left with lots with an hour to go, dont be scared to reduce the prices by half - there is nothing worse than being left with lots of cakes that people have made for you to sell.

Depends very much on where you are. The dc school fair yesterday was selling all big cakes for minimum £4.50, six small cakes/ crispie cakes (already arranged on a paper plate) were £2.00. Everything sold out, but it's a pool of parents willing to pay such prices (which are on a par with the local WI country market every week).

But I can't imagine you'd get away with those prices just a few miles down the road from the school.

We run a cake stall in the playground after school every two weeks.

We charge 50p for muffin sized decorated fairy cakes, 30p for smaller ones and for biscuits and flapjacks and stuff like that.

We find we do better by cutting big cakes into slices and selling them that way, although because we've been doing it regularly for a year now, we get orders for whole cakes as well.

Don't forget to buy tons of plastic bags to put the stuff in. And if you have a source of cheap paper plates they can be very useful too.

happy to answer cake stall questions - I am now an expert on the subject!