These Easy, Delicious Bake Sale Recipes Require No More Than 4 Ingredients (2024)

FAQs

What sells most at a bake sale? ›

What sells best at bake sales? Cupcakes, brownies, and cookies are always winners, but any small, portable baked items are good bake sale ideas. Note that bake sale cookies, cupcakes, brownies, and muffins are easier to package and sell by the piece than are cakes and pies.

Plan your bake sale.

First, determine how many treats you plan to sell. If you just want to go round the neighbourhood, then you will need around 50-70 treats. For a class sale, around 15-40. For a whole school sale, around 100-150.

The most common baked item is bread but many other types of foods are baked as well.

Bake sales work best when a few families work together. Cookies! Just in a basket or tupperware, not individually wrapped (a rule of thumb is 100 cookies per hour of bake sale).

For example, if you can make a batch of cookies using simple ingredients, like sugar, oil, water, flour and chocolate chips, you may be able to sell each cookie for around $2 for a profit. It may cost you between $. 50 and $1.00 to make each cookie, but you'll see around a 100% profit at that rate.

Don't price anything under $1.

You will have to sell a lot more to reach your fundraising goal and create more change to deal with. Try to keep items priced at even dollar amounts, like $2, $5, or more, instead of pricing at $1.50.

Individual wrapping you may use: cellophane bags, food-safe paper wrapping, paper treat bags, “glassine” food bags, or Ziploc bags. See examples and details below. Make sure the packaging is food-safe! Individually-wrapped treats must still be decorated with the theme and requested celebratory message.

Small cello-style or brown paper bags: These are great for smaller individual items and cake slices. We use ULINE's 6×6-inch Flat Polypropylene Bags, and Wilton Favor Kits. Large cello-style or brown paper bags for larger items: We use 17.5″ Basket Gift Bags by Celebrate It.

What is simple form of bake? ›

Tween (ages 9–12 years)

Older kids can handle more complicated tasks, such as using an electric mixer or food processor, as well as putting food into the oven. This is a great age for longer baking projects, like baking bread from scratch or making and decorating a birthday cake with homemade frosting and fancy piping.