General Chat

Youngest has one on Monday.

Anyone on the PTA or in the know able to tell me.

Do the individual cakes sell better and make more money or is it better to bake one larger one? xx

I think it smaller ones hun, kids can eat n then buy more lol


S xxxxxx

Individual cakes sell equally as well I think.

The kids love to buy the iced cup cakes, and the old'uns like to buy a cake for Sunday tea....so take your pick.

I always made a big batch of butterfly cakes, some sold in sixes and some singly, and a couple of sponges. Or a date n walnut loaf, and a coffee sponge. they always went well too.

i would say the smaller cakes sell the best

but dont forget lots of bags to put them in

Yep fairy cakes are very popular :))))........I have the recipe for BC's cookies here ....written on the back of a betting slip

Muffy, just make sure that if you do anything with nuts in, that you label them, I read recently that someone who was allergic was given a cake brought at a school slae and had a reaction to it. I would do small ones you can sell say 2 doz cakes at 25p each and raise £5.80, but if you bake 1 big cake you would probably only raise say £2.50 for that.

trust Bc Hayley lol

bless he cotton socks

Hi Muffy, I was school treasurer, and also used to make cakes, as others have said small cakes make most money. Carol

i can almost smell them cakes cooking MMMMMMmmmm

i always have to double the mixture as everybody has a spoon in it
before it goes in the oven

Hi Muffy

I was Chair of the PTA. Individual cakes sell well but we found that the best sellers were the larger ones which we've sold for £5.00 and more with a smile tellilng them that it's all for the children lol!

xxx Shimms xxx

Muffy

anything sells and our are always a sell out in no time at all and we sell bought stuff as well and they go just as well.

We always pick a couple of large homemade ones and do a cake raffle which is always popular.

I usually make big and little and stuff I can make in advance and freeze so can make it when i am well enough then just pull out for tidler to take in

a cake raffle it s great idea

Thanks all.

I think then I'll do some small ones and one large one..looks like this weekend will be a baking weekend lol xx

I remember buns and little things always seemed to go down well when we did fundraising for our year charity at secondary school - we could sell them at 10p each and still make quite a bit.

One think I've done before that might be worth a go is, make a sponge cake in a big square or rectangular roasting tin like you'd put a turkey in. (You might need to increase the quantities in the recipe - it depends how deep you want it to be!) Then, when it's cooked, slice it up into squares or fingers - you could even ice them or put buttercream on them - so they're a hand-held size. I've been able to get anything up to 30 pieces out of one baking tray sized cake if I do it that way.)

I found the same as TW when many years ago I was on the school fete cake stall....... but before the fete opened a teacher would come and pick a large cake to have with tea in the staff room........paying a small amount of course........we weren't allowed to buy anything beforehand.......I suppose they thought it was one of the perks.....

Coffee and Walnut cakes, cream sponges and lemon cakes were the favourites in big cakes, and butterfly cakes the most popular small ones.....

Muffy,
just wondering how the cake sales went?

Hi Helen.

Not sure what the final totals were....but my Chocolate fairy cakes with chocolate butter icing....and my Strawberry sponge all went...and quite early on too...so I'm told... (my friend was manning the stall lol) which I felt quite chuffed about.

My girls didn't buy my cakes though....blinking cheek pmsl xx

Oh they are naughty not buying Mum's cakes. My youngest is into making and decorating cakes and today she completed a pink guitar one for her boyfriends sisters birthday. It's the best one she's done so far.

oooo fantastic.

Usually my cakes when done for others go horrendously wrong lol....so well done to her !!!

These only turned out ok because i've done them over and over (which is most likely why my two never bought them lol) xx

Who put a recipe on here for chocolate cake a few weeks ago. I think it might of been J.B.Angel. Well, I've made it twice and, well, it disappeared before I hardly had a chance to have a piece myself, so yummy! If it was you JBA, I have a query about the choc icing (?) that goes over the top - whoever it was I think was an experienced cake maker and I'm definitely NOT. Thanks.