Extracted list of "good bake sale sellers" from egullet

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andiesenji Feb 8 2005, 12:56 PM

#1 biggest seller was chocolate chip cookies, the Toll House variety, no nuts!

#2 biggest sellers were Banana Walnut or Banana Pecan muffins, wrapped =individually.

#3 sellers were cinnamon rolls, without icing, usually with a cinnamon/sugar sprinkle on top and again, individually wrapped

The slowest things to go were the whole cakes, especially those with icing so you couldn't see what was in them.

Slices of Bundt cakes, individually wrapped, sold well, particularly the dark chocolate ones.

The small square tea cakes with strusel topping also were good sellers; made them in regular cupcake liners, just reshaped to fit the square tins.

The things have to be readily identifiable and recognizable to the buyers.

One year I made 10 loaves of "Monkey Bread" in regular disposable aluminum loaf pans.

I took one apart and cut it into bite size pieces and offered them as samples.

One lady bought 1 loaf, then came back half an hour later and bought the last 2. The next bake sale I made 20 and people were buying them 2 at a time.

http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=99756&hl=sale*

 
Great list and ideas Marilyn. We are gearing up for a bazaar and bake sale

for our school and church. My two daughters are public school teachers. They used to raise tons of money for their schools hosting bingos. Since the no-smoking law came into effect in Ontario, the bingos went down the tubes. WHAT! Only smokers play Bingo. I'm not throwing stones. I smoked and still miss it sometimes. Loved your idea of monkey bread and serving samples. You make it in the regular sized loaf pans? and give out samples. Im going to try that. We were trying to sell bundt style coffee cakes for $6. Didn't sell. So we cut them in 4th's and sold them for $3.oo each and they sold. A lot of our ladies bake and we make up variety packages that seem to do better than all one kind. Would you mind sharing your monkey bread recipe and technique, Marilyn? also, does anyone have any craft ideas. Thanks.

 
Elenor, I have a good one from Gail's...one of the "stupidly simple" recipes

I'll find it tonight. You might want to divide & bake the recipe in several smaller pans to sell easier.

 
Mary Evan's "Monkey Bread"

(Mar's Note: Elenor, you may want to bake this in smaller pans to sell easier (rather than one large bundt pan version))

Forum Home Page: Archive Swap 10001-10100
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 21:21:56 GMT
From: Mary "Stir Crazy at -10F" Evans

Another stupidly easy idea MONKEY BREAD

I think I'm going to write a cookbook called
Stupid Cook Tricks or Poor White Trash Hits
the Kitchen. I apologize for all of my goofy
ideas I've submitted but they're usually
stupidly easy and people like the food.
Maybe because it's Minnesota...I don't know.
My kids love this recipe. I apologizingly
brought it to a brunch last weekend and
people were fighting over who got to lick the
plate. I was too embarassed to reveal the
ingredients, but I will tell all here...you
wouldn't know me if you saw me!

MONKEY BREAD!! (Sunday morning special)
2 tubes of Pillsbury french bread refrig
dough
1 stick (1/2 c.)butter
1 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. chopped pecans
2 T. light corn syrup
1/8 t. salt
1/2 t. vanilla
1 small (3 oz?) package REGULAR (non instant)
vanilla pudding mix

Prehead oven to 350F. Melt the butter in a
saucepan, add the rest of ingredients and
cool down. Cut the dough with a scissors (a
clean one, of course) into golf ball-sized
pieces (wishing I could golf). Toss the
dough balls in the gooey stuff and turn the
whole mess into a bundt pan. (Don't need to
grease the pan). Bake at 350F for 25-30
minutes. Invert onto a serving plate and let
it sit upside down for a few minutes while
you run around the house with your children
yelling "MONKEY BREAD, MONKEY BREAD". (You
can skip that part, the winter is getting
very long in Minnesota...)

http://web.archive.org/web/20011101103841/food4.epicurious.com/HyperNews/get/archive_swap10001-10100/10082.html

 
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