Donna Rose wrote:

> Man, I don't know where y'all have been going to bake sales. My mom's
> church has an annual ethnic food festival, which I've written about here
> in the past (I do all the cooking for the Serbian booth). In addition to
> all the wonderful home-cooked ethnic foods available, most of the women
> (and a few of the men) of the parish donate fantastic baked goods for the
> bakery sale. The entire church hall is used as the bakery during this
> festival, there is so much donated.
>
> Cakes and pies that are cut are $2 and $3 per slice, and whole cakes go
> for $25. Of course, this festival has been going on for 15 years, so
> people know the quality of the goods they will see there. And most folks
> understand that it takes a lot of time and in many cases expensive
> ingredients in order to produce some of these fantastic desserts.
>
> Folks don't go there looking for bargains on home-baked goods, they go
> there looking for the quality they've come to expect. And they realize
> that it is, indeed, a fund raiser, and don't mind paying the price if
> they are assured of getting quality goods.

That is the way I think it should be. At bake sale that I was referring to they
would sell the whole cake for $2-3 and cookies were selling for $1 per dozen. It
was a great bargain for the people who went to get cheap baked goods. They would
have made more money if they just got the bakers to donate the money they would
have spent on ingredients and forget about the sale.