Dave Smith wrote:
>
> Franfogel wrote:
>
> I used to bake stuff for the bake sale
> at my son's school. Then I found out that the were selling the stuff for less than
> it cost me to make them. Nuts to that. All I was doing was providing someone with
> cheap baked goods and the school was getting the money.




I had the same experience with our high school PTO. The teachers
sponsor a huge craft sale in early Nov. with the booth rental $$$
going to a scholarship fund for kids who want to major in education
in college. The PTO has a bake sale table and donates the proceeds
to the scholarship fund. Too many times I have made or seen cakes
that cost ~$8 or more to make being sold for $2.50. I'd rather donate
the cost of the ingredients.

gloria p

I am so glad to see this topic come up in a thread, because I was just getting
ready to start it myself with a question.

Our school is having a bake sale on the 2nd (election day, we're a polling
place, extra traffic). How do you think it's best to price items? I'll be
making divinity (relatively cheap to make), individual pineapple upside down
cakes (about $5.00 total to make 8 small-pot-pie-sized cakes), and small
coconut cakes (recipe posted earlier this month during a discussion about
"poke" cakes. These are slightly more expensive to make because of the cost of
the cream of coconut, but I'm using miniature loaf pans, and can make about 10
cakes from a normal-sized cake batter).
I know my pricing scale for these things when I do small catering jobs, but I'm
not looking for a real business-level profit for these items. As consumers
(and parents) how much would you be willing to pay for, say, a bag of 4 largish
pieces of divinity? A pineapple cake? A coconut cake? A coffee-cake-strudel
muffin?

Thanks!

Alexis.

On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 03:49:12 GMT, Puester >
wrote:

>I had the same experience with our high school PTO. The teachers
>sponsor a huge craft sale in early Nov. with the booth rental $$$
>going to a scholarship fund for kids who want to major in education
>in college. The PTO has a bake sale table and donates the proceeds
>to the scholarship fund. Too many times I have made or seen cakes
>that cost ~$8 or more to make being sold for $2.50. I'd rather donate
>the cost of the ingredients.

My church runs an "Alternative Christmas Market" every November, with
charities such as Habitat for Humanity, Heifers, Int'l., a children's
cancer charity, a local women's shelter, another couple of
international crafts charities and our United Methodists Women's bake
sale. The bake sale creamed every other booth. Methodists seem to
travel on their stomachs...

"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines