Bake sale economics

Babygirl's kindergarten class is having a bake sale this week to raise money for their year end field trip. We had our first bake sale experience last year in Pre-K. I must say, if children are too young to calculate their sales, they may be too young for the whole bake sale thing you know what I mean... Since I was a volunteer last year, I do have to admit that a bunch of preschoolers sitting behind a table of goodies almost begging you to purchase their baked goods with their eyes was the sweetest.

Last year I went all out, I made whoopie pies AND chocolate and candy coated pretzels which sold fairly quickly. We had wrapped our $18 worth of homebaked goods individually (as requested) and even added ribbon and stickers on the bags... after all it all comes down to marketing right?

However, I do not think the individual cost of the field trip to the zoo even came close to being reduced by the amount we paid to participate in the bake sale so... I'm kinda wondering if it's all worthwhile this year.

Nonetheless, we made 30 butterfly cupcakes tonight. I cut the tops off of each cupcake, layered frosting, cut wing shapes out of the tops and tuck them neatly on either side of gummy worms before adding liquorice antennae. Tada!


At first, biggirl said my cupcakes would be unappealing since there was no visible frosting... say what!?!

But, since total cupcake production was 33 and we are only sending 30 off to the bake sale, I quickly realized that they did have a certain 'je ne sais quoi' afterall.

The bottom line is that Babygirl is happy to bring her butterfly cupcakes to school and hoping they fly away quickly...only because she is hoping to help the little preschoolers (who she says are so cute) sell their goodies because you know, they don't know how bake sales work and she has bake sale experience because she is sooooo much older!