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

Jem8472

Maderia cake Serves 12

170g butter or marg
170g caster sugar
4 eggs
170g plain flour sifted
3/4 tsp baking powder

Preheat the oven to 170c
grease and line a loaf time about 26cms X 10cms

put the marg and sugar into a bowl and breat together untill light and fluffy.
Still beating add the eggs one at a time waiting until each is fully incorporated before adding another one.

Add the flour and baking powder. (I find a little at a time works best)

When fulled mixed put into the loaf tin and smooth the top.

Bake until golden and springy it should take about 1 hour at 170c.
Push a skewer in to see if it cooked. If it comes out clean it is cooked.

If it browns too quickly cover loosely with foil.

leave to cool for 15 mins before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.

I find adding glacie cherries is nice.
Also put half the mixture into the loaf tin. Add some coco powder to the remaining mixture and mix. Then add to the loaf tin and give a small stir to make a marble cake!

esmf73

Speaking as someone who organises (and contributes) to a school cake sale I can say that anything home made goes down very well. Chocolate cake is of course a winner - perhaps as its almost easter you could do those chocolate nests with little eggs in. But it can range depending on who is buying - if it is children then they need little cakes (like fairy cakes) that they can buy for 20p or something.

If it is parents, then they often like to buy whole cakes - just victoria sandwich cakes (I often buy the value cake mixes from Tesco) with just strawberry jam and icing suger sprinkled on the top. Make sure you put them in a freezer bag though. Vic Sarnie cakes can be easily transformed with a bit of cocoa powder or strong black coffee.

The coffee and walnut cakes go down very well where I live - and I just make them single layer (no filling!). Best of luck - and remember no one will know who donated what!

hilstep2000

I make a tea bread, which can be sold whole or in slices.
Tea Loaf Recipe

Ingredients
350g Mixed Fruit
200g Soft Brown Sugar
270g Self Raising Flour
3/4 Pint Freshly Made Tea
2 Medium Eggs

DIRECTIONS
Make the tea, I use Yorkshire Tea (loose leaves)
Pour over the Fruit and Sugar, and leave to soak overnight (or longer if you like tea, I left it soaking for a week once and it was a fine loaf).
After the Fruit and Sugar has soaked in the tea, for however long you like, mix the Flour and beaten Eggs with the Fruit and Sugar and cook in a greased 2lb Loaf Tin in a pre-heated oven at 150ºC (300ºF, Gas Mark 2) for 1.5 hours. Cool on a Wire Rack and serve sliced with butter.

Akways goes down well, and so easy to make!

angeltreats

Millionaire's shortbread is really easy but everyone loves it! This recipe is from the Hairy Bikers Mums Know Best section on the BBC website:

Ingredients
2oz butter
4oz plain flour
2oz caster sugar

4oz butter
1 tin condensed milk
2oz caster sugar

1 large bar of chocolate

Method
1. Rub the sugar, butter and flour together and press the mix into a greased tin.
2. Bake in a moderate oven or an Aga baking oven for 20 minutes.
3. Put condensed milk, butter and sugar in a pot and boil for 10 minutes until it becomes thicker
and golden in colour.
4. Pour over biscuit base and leave to set.
5. Melt a bar of your favourite chocolate and pour over. Can use milk, dark or even white!

zippychick

Hi Katylou:hello:

There are a few threads which should help

School cake stall - your chance to make me look good

School fete bestseller

School fete

Also for a bit of nostalgia - school days recipes

I'll add your thread to the first one later to keep the ideas together

thanks
Zip

ubamother

nothing wrong with a basic victoria sponge, poured into a square/rectangular tin. When cooked drizzle over icing made with lemon juice - then you can cut into rectangles/squares of whatever size suits. To the basic sponge you could add cherries/sultanas, anything you have in the cupboard and change the top to suit.

hgbels

Hi

I am in charge of the cake sales at our school, (we sell to the children 25p each or 5 for a £1).

Chocolate crispie cakes and fairy cakes with multi coloured icing always sell the best.

I used to spend extra on fancy things to top the cakes with, but now I tend to just do plain fairy cakes (saves on the cost of cocoa powder), with icing on. Crispie cakes sell just as well plain as with lots of fancy extra's.

One inovative parent at our school did sweetie kebabs - marshmallows and some other sweet threaded on kebab sticks - went down really well.

The other thing to think about is that no one tends to know who has brought in what at our cake sales - we put everything out on to trays and apart from when children say 'I made them' no one knows who contributes what.
We also price all contributions the same.

Hope this helps

Hels

lizalloareds

where can i buy a heavy based saucepan from

liz

pollys

hgbels wrote: »

Hi

I am in charge of the cake sales at our school, (we sell to the children 25p each or 5 for a £1).

Chocolate crispie cakes and fairy cakes with multi coloured icing always sell the best.

I used to spend extra on fancy things to top the cakes with, but now I tend to just do plain fairy cakes (saves on the cost of cocoa powder), with icing on. Crispie cakes sell just as well plain as with lots of fancy extra's.

One inovative parent at our school did sweetie kebabs - marshmallows and some other sweet threaded on kebab sticks - went down really well.

The other thing to think about is that no one tends to know who has brought in what at our cake sales - we put everything out on to trays and apart from when children say 'I made them' no one knows who contributes what.
We also price all contributions the same.

Hope this helps

Hels

Certaintly agree about the chocolate Crispie cakes and buns with icing, they are the best sellers at our school.

Best not to use nuts because of allergies.

Enjoy your baking day.

Chipps

I always found that simple fairy cakes with icing and a sweet on top went down well! Jelly tots are good, but almost any smallish sweet that kids like will go well (smarties can leak colour, so if you are making cakes in a rush they are not always the best, cos icing usually ends up a bit runny if you're trying to get them finished in the morning before school because that's when you got the note about cakes!!!)