Bake Sale Bars: Traditional, Easy, Portable, and Delicious
You’ve assigned brownies. You’ve assigned cookies. As a next step, you might want to add some bar treats to your bake sale.
Lemon bars are a bake sale tradition. For a festive look, you can add a drop of red food coloring to the filling for “pink lemonade bars” or add food coloring in your school colors.
Rice Krispies treats are also surefire sellers. Make several varieties, including ones with cocoa-flavored cereal and chocolate marshmallows. If your bake sale is tied to a football game, shape them like footballs. Get a head start by using store-bought treats and dipping one corner in melted chocolate. Roll in sprinkles.
Check out what fruit is in season and consider a bar treat featuring that fruit. Blueberries, raspberries, and strawberries make excellent bar treats. Many recipes call for preserves rather than fruit and may be made year-round. Try this classic, buttery recipe for raspberry bars.
<Consider a variation on traditional chocolate chip cookies by making pan cookies and cutting them in squares. Or, make in a pizza pan and cut into wedges.
Pumpkin bars are a great fall treat.
Take the baking out of bake sale with no-bake treats like these chocolate oat bars. You can bypass the sweltering kitchen. No-bake bar cookies are great for volunteers who aren’t experienced cooks. You really can’t mess them up.
Sell bars in full and and half sizes.
Cut your bars uniformly and neatly.
Bar treats are addictive. They’re easy to make. And they sell! Assign a variety of bar treats to volunteers or challenge them to come up with their own delicious bake sale bar.
