School cake stall - your chance to make me look good!

sandraroffey

oooo a proper, old fashioned fruit cake....but it has to have cherries in it.

scottishminnie

I'm always amazed at how quickly marshmallow hats sell out - small amount of melted (SP) choc in a petit four case with a marshmallow squidged on top and then a smartie attached to the top of the mallow with a tiny bit of choc.

I also find this mallow refridgerator cake sells well and you can alter the ingredients to suit what you have in your store cupboard

This is also a good use for digestive biscuits.

I'm always on the hunt for tablet at cake sales - only because I've never made is successfully yet!

4weeladdies

Wow, thanks for the fast replies! Since my first post I've made 6 dozen vanilla fairy cakes (and fed the boys breakfast, made the packed lunches, done the dishes, swept the kitchen floor, hung 2 loads of washing out, stripped 2 beds & nagged threatened and cajoled the boys until they got dressed, brushed hair & teeth etc - mornings are such a joy!!!)

I'll decorate the fairy cakes in a variety of coloured icing to appeal to both boys and girls and top them with jelly sweets or decorating icing (found some glitter stuff left over from Valentines day). At the moment I'm thinking of:

Choc traybake with choc fudge icing
Mars bar cake
2 coconut lime loaves
Shortbread - is it really ok made with Stork? Never tried it before and butter is a bit out of my price range for today
Choc chip cookies
Twinks
Melting Moments
Jam tarts mabye - have hm pastry in freezer
Some scones - will make fresh tomorrow morning

I'd love to do a fruit cake, I love Nigellas marzipan one but the dried fruit is just too dear to justify making it for the school. Items at the stall will probably be 25p, I'll charge less if a child doesn't have much money and slip a few freebies if a child has none. Think I'll hide next year when the headmistress is prowling the playground looking for "volunteers" pmsl

SDG31000

I tend to make large traybakes as you can charge more for a square of cake than for a fairy cake and they are much quicker to make. I make lemon with a lemon icing (you can put a lemon jelly slice on each square to decorate them), chocolate brownies and a light fruit cake one, just a basic sponge mix with value mixed dried fruit added and the top sprinkled with demerara sugar to give it some crunch.
Also chocolate crunch from the school days recipe thread is very quick and easy to make in large quantities.

rosie383

Just use the value dried fruit. You can get a 500g bag for about 55p or so and it does the job rightly.

Scottishminnie Thank you so much for the recipe site link. Can't wait to have a good nosy and see if there are any recipes that I remember from my childhood in Belfast. Looks like a 'norn iron' site with the 15s on it! The digestive bars look great. I'm wishing I had some marshmallows now to make some 15s as they always go down a real treat.

zippychick

this thread has loads of ideas for you

we wil merge this later, good luck!

Zip

anguk

Rocky Road always goes down well too. Just bung a couple of bars of smartprice/value choc (I use a mix of milk & plain if it's for kids) in a pan, with a couple of tablespoons of golden syrup and a biggish dollop of butter/marg (about a tablespoon). Let it melt then chuck in crushed up digestives and mini marshmallows, mix until it's all coated in the chocolate mixture then stick it in a tin in the fridge until it's set. Can you tell I'm a bit of a slap-dash cook!

You can add glace cherries or raisins too, pretty much anything that'll go with chocolate & digestives will work.

Little_Vics

little mini cheesecakes/banoffee pie - I make them in fairy cup cake cases. The only drag is they need a spoon to eat them with!

liney

I have promised a dozen Millies style cookies, a dozen fairy cakes, and something else..... I'm thinking avoid messy chocolate? What would you make?

Pink.

Hi liney,

This thread should help:

School cake stall - your chance to make me look good!

I'll add your thread to it later.

Pink