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Recipes for a Bake Sale

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Recipes for a Bake Sale

Lynley Jones

Wondering what to bring to a bake sale? Lots of ideas here - from classic strategies to more adventurous options. Have fun!

Bake Sale Recipes: Tried and True

Every bake sale needs cupcakes, cookies, cakes and the like. So here are some options if you want to go the time-tested route:

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Cinnamon-Cranberry Muffins
Cinnamon-Cranberry Muffins

Quick, simple and delicious. These are muffins, not dessert masquerading as a breakfast food.

Simple Cookie-Cutter Cookies
Simple Cookie-Cutter Cookies

My go-to cookie recipe. Very simple, not overly sweet. Delicious. A nice blank slate for you to gussy up as you choose.

Coconut Cream Cake
Coconut Cream Cake

Creamy, coconutty layer cake, with coconut cream cheese frosting. Once they taste this, people will beg you to make it for them. (Fair warning.)

Pink Raspberry Cupcakes
Pink Raspberry Cupcakes

Cupcakes tinted pink with fresh raspberry puree, with a berry special surprise inside. Frost with Lemony-Basil Buttercream or frosting of your choice. 

Lemony-Basil Buttercream Frosting
Lemony-Basil Buttercream Frosting

White buttercream frosting infused with fresh lemon and basil. Sweet, creamy and deliciously different. Created for Pink Raspberry Cupcakes (but would be great with many other kinds of cakes).

Bake Sale Recipes: The Road Less Traveled

Sometimes the best sellers at the bake sale are the more unexpected offerings. The adults may wander by and say “Oh, I didn’t realize you had these!” Consider making multiple mini-pies and mini-tarts instead of one large one that will need to be cut. Or keep larger things whole so they can command a higher price. Tasty!

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Mucho Mango Tart
Mucho Mango Tart

Miles of mangoes and flaky puff pastry make for a fairly simple but impressive dessert, especially when topped with homemade Cajeta de Leche.

Classic Fresh Fruit Tart
Classic Fresh Fruit Tart

The classic French fresh-fruit tart, with pastry cream and an apricot glaze.

Easy Patriotic Tart
Easy Patriotic Tart

Frozen puff pastry dough, filled with creamy honey-mascarpone and fresh fruit. The quick and easy way to pull together a beautiful fresh-fruit tart.

Star-Spangled Blueberry Pie
Star-Spangled Blueberry Pie

An all-American pie classic, bursting with blueberry flavor and bedecked with stars. You can make this any time of year with blueberries either straight from the freezer or fresh.

Peppermint Pretzel Bark
Peppermint Pretzel Bark

Dark and white chocolate layered with the subtle salty crunch of pretzel crisps and spiked with peppermint.

Lavender Cherry Galette
Lavender Cherry Galette

A simple, rustic tart made with either fresh or frozen cherries, with dried lavender petals. You can pull the cherries directly from the freezer for this.

Happy Apple Tart
Happy Apple Tart

Cinnamon apples in a rustic galette-style crust.

Pumpkin Pasties
Pumpkin Pasties

Like little pumpkin pies inside a pastry shell. Inspired by the Harry Potter book series, they're perfect for your Halloween or Potter-themed party, but also sophisticated enough for your Thanksgiving table.

Basil-Peach Galettes
Basil-Peach Galettes

Rustic tarts filled with ripe peaches and mascarpone cheese, with a hint of basil and cinnamon. Simple to make, and gorgeous to look at.

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