Good bake sale items???

[N&B'smom]

My DD7 is part of a competitive dance team and they're doing a fundraiser..a bake sale. I've never baked for one before and would love some ideas! I did find a nice recipe for banana bread in a jar, which I thought sounded interesting.

Any other ideas?

 

[kwelch10377]

You could do whoopie pies, rice crispy treats(maybe add chocolate chips or something to spice them up), and ice cream cone cupcakes.

 

[tonilea]

I have done bundt type cakes. They travel pretty well. You can also decorate them pretty easily.

 

[Hannathy]

we found that packaged amounts on plates sold better than trying to sell say a whole cake which would be expensive. Same with cookies put 6 on a plate or 3. People are willing to drop a buck or two but will hesitate and not buy anything if it is a $7 whole cake.
go for volume rather than setting your prices too high. Keep things reasonable and people will buy.

have things marked what they are and prices easily seen some people will walk away rather than ask.

 

[JessicaR]

frosted brownies with sprinkles - they sell out! Or HUGE toll house choc chip cookies - always a home run and have been doing this for many years.

 

[mamacatnv]

frosted brownies with sprinkle s - they sell out! Or HUGE toll house choc chip cookies - always a home run and have been doing this for many years.

Are you selling to kids or parents? Kids love cupcakes and brownies - parents will be more likely to go for the banana bread idea than kids will.

Huge TollHouse are always a hit, make them with the mini m&m's and they will move even faster.

 

[*BTMRR*]

If you're mainly marketing to kids--

Whatever you make, add sprinkles (or M&Ms)! I worked at a bake sale recently and we had tons of brownies that were identical except that half hand sprinkles and half didn't...the ones with the sprinkles sold in a flash and the ones without were the last things left on the table at the end.

 

[PixieDustandEeyore]

I always made Candied apples (cheap to make) or we made cupcake cones... you get the cones you get for ice cream and make cupcakes and put them in the cone slather with ice cream and lots of sprinkles or mm's etc they always sold out!

 

[N&B'smom]

Thanks for the ideas!!

 

[Bayoumama]

I have almost always made pineapple upside down cakes and that always sells.

 

[dakcp2001]

If you go to a craft store, get some baggies and pretty ribbon so you can individually package brownies etc.

I think Halloween cupcakes would be perfect this time of year! Cupcakes are always a big hit, frosted brownies, and individually bagged items go fast for the "take it with them corwd" the frosted stuff gets eaten right away.


Here is another tip, it wont help you now but maybe in the future for fund raising, we did a pie bake sale just before Thanksgiving break at the community college, sold whole pies. We ran out SO FAST! We had advertised it well, but let me tell you, people love not having to bake one more thing! Especially at our college where it is mostly working moms & dads going to school. It was so successful the local culinary arts high school is planning to bake the pies and do this every year.

 

[MichelleinMaine]

I made "smores on a stick" one time. Stick a marshmellow on a skewer (I cut the points off the skewers, popsicle sticks might work too.) Dip in melted chocolate and lay on a graham cracker square. Let cool. We displayed them upright in a hunk of foam. THey were the first thing to sell out.

Agree if you are marketing to kids- food coloring and sprinkles are your friend. Lots of bright colored frosting= kids delight.

 

[Katy Belle]

I just did baggies of caramel corn with a bit of candy corn sprinkled in. Kids loved it! Kids love a little prize on top of a cupcake, a little flag, umbrella, etc. Oh, I've done cupcakes with green frosting, stand up a couple of Teddy Graham bears, and stick in a paper umbrella....Teddy Bear Picnic! Kids love the and they are easy to do.

 

[KLAIT]

We just did this...I had bought 2 of those brownie pans where they make the individual squares. I made brownies in these and when they popped out I took a cake tip and put a dollup of choc frosting on then and then a candy pumpkin. They were really cute and sold like hot cakes.

 

[Christine]

I'm not helpful here but I can tell you what NOT to do. Someone where I work does this at our fundraiser sales. They get a tube of those Pillsbury slice and bake cookies and they make those and put three in a bag and try to sell them. Year after year they NEVER sell but they keep doing it.

 

[N&B'smom]

Christine - yes, I agree. I wouldn't buy something like that.

Other than the banana bread in a jar I was thinking of fudge and some cupcakes with Fall decorations.

 

[chloelovesdisney]

I can tell you what I actually buy at a bake sale -

cupcakes, brownies, and rice krispi treats.

 

[Nancy]

I can tell you what I actually buy at a bake sale -

cupcakes, brownies, and rice krispi treats.

me too! And like everyone says..add sprinkles, the kids love them. I like to do the Rice Krispie treats and then put sprinkles/holiday decor on them. This time of year they have a lot of holiday decorations to sprinkle on.

 

[luvmy3]

I make rice krispie treats for every bake sale and they sell out quickly. I use different molds to make them into shapes and then I drizzle them with cookie icing (2 different co-ordinating colors) and package each of them in a cute treat bag. I'm not a confident baker so this allows me to contribute to the fundraising.

 

[clh2]

chocolate dipped pretzels are really easy to make too!

Ditto the comments about using baby M&M's or sprinkles.

Pretty packaging and a ribbon...good to go!

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