Knowing how to price your bake sale can be tough. Follow our top tips for pricing!
Don’t price anything under $1. You will have to sell a lot more to reach your fundraising goal and create more change to deal with. Try to keep items priced at even dollar amounts, like $2, $5, or more, instead of pricing at $1.50.
Get comparable rates. Once you have your menu planned, go around town and see how local bakeries and grocery stores price similar items. Don’t be afraid to go a little higher. It’s for charity!
Bundle your baked goods. Consider packaging small items in sets. For instance, cookies and scones will bring in a lot more if sold in sets of 2 or 3.
OUR BAKE SALE RECIPE PRICES:
Rainbow Sprinkle Sugar Cookies: $2 for 1 cookie / $5 for 3 cookies $20 for 12 cookies
Strawberries and Cream Scones: $3 for 1 scone / $8 for 3 scones / $28 for 12 scones
Blueberry Lemon Loaves: $12 for traditional loaf / $4 per slice / $7 per mini loaf / $12 for bundle of 2 mini loaves / $24 for 4 mini loaves
Classic Vanilla Pound Cake: $15 whole / $8 half / $4 per slice
Whoa! ! guess I’ve been short changing myself for 3 years. I make persimmon bread in mini loaves (1½x2½). I sale them during our parish yard sale for $2 each…….. Now for my unrelated question. I’m setting up a benefit bake sale. Will be having lots of volunteers. Can I keep the cost of my home made speciality,?
I’m having trouble pricing my home baked goods. How much should i charge for 5 & 8 pcs?
For both blueberry and strawberry scones.
Hi Shanny,
Thank you for your question! As stated above, you’ll first want to research other bakeries or baked good sellers in your area to get an idea of what price point people in your area will be comfortable paying. From there, you can use our pricing for Strawberries and Cream Scones as your guide ($3 for 1 scone / $8 for 3 scones / $28 for 12 scones). Using that model, for 5 scones you could probably charge anywhere from $12-15, and for 8 scones, anywhere from $20-22.
The use of fresh vs. frozen fruit can also affect your cost of production, so be sure to take that into account when pricing your scones. Ultimately, if you’re looking to make a profit, you’ll need to make sure your cost of ingredients doesn’t exceed the price you’re charging customers.
Hope this helps, and happy baking!
How much money should I charge for 4 to 7 blueberry muffins?
Hi Maria,
Thank you for your question!
Calculating this will require some research on your part. For one, you’ll want to see what bakeries in your area are charging for muffins, and use that as guidance for your pricing. You’ll also want to figure out your cost of ingredients per muffin, and let that help to inform how you price your muffins. You’ll also need to decide if you want to provide a slight discount to those buying a half dozen, which is often a standard practice at bakeries. It’ll also be important to factor in labor costs and equipment/power costs as well depending on the scale of your operation.
As you can tell, there’s a lot to consider, and a lot will depend on how much profit you’re hoping to make. $5 per muffin might be a good place to start, but again, there are a lot of personal variables that will need to factor into how you price things.
Happy baking!
$10 to$12%
I am so anti g to begin selling loaf breads such as banana breads, blueberry, lemon. What would you recommend charging per loaf, & also per slice at events?
Hi!
You could do both options and have full loaves for sale as well as slices. Happy baking!
I am having a bake sale and selling peanut butter cookies, how much should I sell them for?
Hi Julia,
Thank you for reaching out! As stated above, you’ll first want to research other bakeries or baked good sellers in your area to get an idea of what price point people in your area will be comfortable paying. From there, you can use our pricing above as a guide. For example, we listed our Rainbow Sprinkle Sugar Cookies as $2 for 1 cookie / $5 for 3 cookies / $20 for 12 cookies. Hope this helps and happy baking!
I want a bake sale in my community to raise money for our Sunshine Club. I’m making a Jewish Apple Cake. How much do you think is a fair price to sell this for?
Hi Theresa,
For a single cake, here is an example of how we priced a pound cake for a bake sale: Classic Vanilla Pound Cake: $15 whole / $8 half / $4 per slice. You can always get comparable prices in your area by visiting local bakeries and grocery stores to see how they are pricing their cakes. Hope this helps and happy baking!
I’m planning to sell homemade hand poured pralines out of my shaved ice stand, I do fairs and sporting events, parades. What would be a good price for each praline? They are a lot of work to make.
Hi Sandi,
We would recommend you see what local stores and bakeries price similar items and go from there. You can go a little higher in price since the pralines are more labor-intensive. Hope this helps and happy baking!
I live in Shelby North Carolina and I have big sales with the Amish every once in a while. They like to put five cookies in a bag, but I think that they’re under pricing their selves because I bake some cookies that had a lot of ingredients in it and I think that they should be sold at least at one dollar a cookie or five dollars a bag. They have been selling theirs for three dollars. There’s just peanut butter cookies but mine had a good cookie recipe with frosting on them. I just wanna know what is fair but I think three dollars for five cookies is under selling.
Hi Sharon,
You could charge more for 5 cookies than $3, but it is ultimately up to you! Take into account the cost of ingredients, the time you take baking the cookies, etc. You can also get price comparisons from local bakeries to see what is being charged for a similar product in your area. Hope this helps and happy baking!