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My child's school is having a bake sale, I've never made anything for a bake sale before or even been to one so I'm new to it all. Does anyone have any tips? What sort of things would you buy from a bake sale? Or what have you made that you'd recommend making? I thought about making a few different things like a whole pie and then some smaller things.
Bake sale ideas
Bake sale ideas
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Bake sale is so American! We say cake stall!!! Lol, sorry, it annoys me all these American terms making their way into our language. Like the store, it's a shop! SHOP!
You can make anything. Everyone loves slices, rum balls without real rum of course, biscuits. A pie sounds great as it's something different.
That's what the school called it 😬
That's the scary part, the school called it that 😱 It's OK lol, it's just my very mild whinge in amongst the world's problems today.
We all know what a cake stall is though so it's not confusing for us, same with the word shop, it's what we do there so it is a bit weird to call a place that. Like calling a pool a swim or a gym an exercise. But that's what makes Australia unique we have weird ways of saying things it's sad to see it all get taken over by names that make sense lol.
If you're going to lecture people on their language, please know the difference.
Shop = a place with one type of product (butcher shop, music shop)
Store = place with various items (department store, newsagency store, grocery store)
Also Australia has multiple regional dialects and bake sale is used in many, it's not an American thing. If I heard cake stand, I would not have thought bake sale, I would have thought something much smaller. Cake stand in my region meant a desk with 1-2 cakes cut up or some cupcakes wrapped in glad wrap and available at recess for 50c.
Doesn't bake sale make more sense though? It's not just cakes that gets sold.
If you're a good cook - anything you like.
Personally I wouldn't go too fancy though, things like carrot cake, muffins, banana bread, cookies and slices are popular.
I'd probably avoid anything that requires refrigeration as well.
I'd also check restrictions, our school's last event like this we couldn't bake anything with nuts or egg for allergen reasons.
Off topic a tad but I bought a couple of cakes from my kids school fair last year, they were so beyond foul it put me off buying from school events ever again 😂
We can cook whatever we like but have to list the ingredients of everything. Aww no, that's no good. I think I'm a decent cook, I mean I won't be appearing on Masterchef or anything lol but I'd do a few test runs of products first to make sure they're yummy.
Go old-skool cool.
Toffees.
Patty cakes.
Fudge.
I was planning on fudge! This comment reassured me, thank you :)
I used to live in the UK and USA during my school years and then moved here in year 7 and one thing I've noticed about cake stalls/bake sales whatever you want to call them is Australian ones are very bland and boring compared to overseas. Make something new! There will be enough ANZAC biscuits, coconut ices and lamingtons. I think a pie is a great idea as long as it's interesting. Maybe a blueberry pie? Or even a mixed berry. I'd sell by the slice instead of whole too. A key lime pie would be nice as well as they're delicious but there aren't many Australians who do them.
I've never had a key lime pie 🤔
You can’t have a cake stall in this Covid world, it’s against the rules. Even school parties need everything to be store brought and individually wrapped. I can’t believe they would sell things made by everybody at home in their home kitchens.
Well that's what the school is planning to do 🤷♀️ It's a private school not a state school so different rules maybe
That wouldn't be a standard rule for all schools, I haven't heard anything like that from my sons school. Although long before covid a lot of cake stalls and food fund-raisers have had to be made from a council registered kitchen for food safety reasons
I've not heard this covid rule in our local schools either. I do tend to think schools cake stalls are food poisoning waiting to happen though. It's a wonder they are allowed to sell this stuff without regulation!
I've seen some of the kitchens our school's cakes have come out of, let's just say ain't eating or buying them 😬
I'm the OP and it's not the school doing the bake sale but it's the parents. The school is just organising it. I guess it's a risk but that's a risk you take everywhere especially if you eat out at cafes or restaurants.
The difference is you can be sued if someone gets sick from your cooking these days, that's why most councils push for food fund raising to be done in approved kitchens. Even old ladies who cook to raise money for charity in our city need to have their kitchen council approved.