At our bake sale we had cookies,brownies,rice krispie treats,cup cakes and mini bread. We also served drinks. Orange Hi-C punch and Apple Cinder. Everything was .50. If you have a WalMart in your area trying getting donations. They might give you a gift card to buy things to bake. I know our WalMart has helped out a lot.
You may have already had your sale by now, but just in case, here are a few items that sell really well in our area, all of which are easy to make: Rice Krispies treats, Chex or Crispix party mix, Muddy Buddies, and English toffee. As another poster mentioned, we ask that our parents pre-package the items in the sandwich or snack-size zipper bags, depending on the item, and we sell them for $.50 each.
Hope you have/had a successful sale!
We are surrounded by retired people in our community.
They L-O-V-E the quick breads! (banana, pumpkin, cinnamon struesel, lemon poppy seed, etc. breads). If you divide the recipe into mini-loaves even better! Because the retired folks can freeze them.
We sold the mini-loaves for $1.50 - 2.00 each and the whole breads for $4-5 depending on ingredients.
The more decadent the ingredients - up the price!
A BIG hit last year was chocolate dipped pretzels (very easy). Take the BIG pretzel sticks (6 inches long or so?). Melt chocolate in the micro and dip the pretzel in the melted chocolate.
Cool on wax paper. Then wrap each pretzel stick in it's own baggie and tie off. We sold them for 25 cents each.
Is anyone in Calif? I was told by our principal that we probally can't do bake sales or "Goodie Auctions" is the items are homemade. But "he'll look into it".
Thanks!
Karen
