Bake Sale Tips?

Question

i'm planning to have a bake sale to benefit Share Our Strength. does anyone have good tips on food or pricing? anything will help! thanks. :)

Answer 1

Oh! I love bake sales.
I would suggest that you make something that people are able to just look at it and tell - so nothing too exotic. Make oatmeal cookies, chocoalte chip cookies, brownies, Rice Krispy treats, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, etc. You also might want to make some breads or muffins or even trail mix. Healthy alternatives are always good. Depending on how far you want to take it, you could also have a 'gourmet' line of goodies such as lemon bars or apple crisp - something that requires a fork or spoon. Those could easily seel for $1 or more.
As far as pricing is concerned, as long as you keep it reasonable, you should be okay. $.075 for a cookie is fine but if you charge more, it should be jumbo or a deluxe type cookie! As a small twist, you should stock a cooler of small cartons of milk and sell those as well.

Answer 2

Most bake sale items are priced at 50 cents. Some sales have items ranging from 25 cents to a dollar, but it's easier for both those purchasing the food and those collecting the money if everything is priced the same amount, especially if there are kids involved. For smaller items such as cookies, you might want to wrap two together in saran wrap to sell for 50 cents.

Traditional bake sale items include brownies, cookies, rice krispie treats, and cupcakes. Include items that can be eaten without a fork (i.e. no cake) and items that won't melt.

It's best, and easiest on you, if you can get other people involved in baking items and then donating them for the sale. Suggest rice krispie treats to those who don't bake. It's also okay to make brownies from a box rather than making them entirely from scratch, but items that obviously came from a grocery store shelf and have just been repackaged usually don't sell.

Answer 3

Bake things individually or things that will be easy to cut and wrap for serving sizes. I usually put like 2 large cookies to a bunch or 3 medium and price them 50 cents. For a small brownie I would go 50 cents. I should mention that I live in a very rural part of Georgia. If you live in a big city raise your prices. You could do individual pound cakes in the small loaf pan and get 3 to 4$ each for those. Cupcakes are always nice for around $1.00. Good luck and i hope this has helped a little.

Answer 4

We had MANY bake sells. (I was in a Navy Wives Group) Since it is summer and heating up I'll give you the summer goodies we did really good with.
Flavored popcorn (cheese, carmel, chocolate),
banana bread
pumpkin bread
pound cake
muffins (blueberry, apple raisin, white chocolate)
sugar cookies would ALWAYS go
scones
turnovers (cherry seemed to sell the best for us)

I am not sure if you are doing a sweet only sell, morning or what so I will throw other things out there too that worked.

Coffee, hot cocoa, bottled waters, chilli, hot dogs, pizza (we got with the pizza parlor and got a discount $5.00 a pizza and sold 2 slices for 1.50 so we made $13.00 profit off each pizza), we also sat out a donation box so those who couldn't or didn't want to purchase what we were selling were still able to donate. We Also would do a raffle along with the bake sale, usually a gift basket and sell tickets for $.50 or $1.00 depending on how big it was and we made 2-3 times what the basket cost us in profits. Just make sure you have name & phone # on the slips so you can call them to pick up their gift.

Answer 5

Our relay for life team had one a couple of months ago and I had never had one before so I learned a few things.
1) price items according to difficulty to make, so a regular rectangle chocolate cake out a box wouldn't cost the same as a homemade coconut or german chocolate cake, we put $8.00 on the easy ones, and $10 or $12 depending on if nuts were added or extras.
2) I learned that we should have had more pies, people were really asking for those. We put $5.00 on the easy ones (store bought crust and canned pie filling) and $8.00 on the homemade buttermilk & coconut pies.
3) We had mini banana bread and regular sizes, the small ones we put $2.00 and the large we put $6.00. People really like the mini size breads.
4) Brownies & cookies we wrapped some singles for .50, some in baggies of 4 for $1.00, and a couple of plates of 6 or 12.
5) We labeled everything which I think helps immensely. And keep all like items together.
Have plenty of change ready and grocery store sacks to give them to carry their stuff in. We spent maybe 4 hours and raised almost $500. Very good! Good luck!

Answer 6

have a cake walk. Everyone paying a dollar. you set up chair and play music. The people walk around the chair and when the music stops The one standing without a chair to sit wins the cake!!! You get a cake for a dollar. You actually make alot of money doing that you know.