5 Easy Bake Sale Ideas for Busy Parents

Another bake sale - this time lets take the fuss out of it wit an easy bake sale item. Here's how to show up, look like you tried, and still get to bed at a reasonable hour.

Bootylicious gingerbread cookie courtesy of my husband Christmas 2024 (still makes me laugh) - NOT sent to school bake sale!

1. Lollie bags — the people's champion

Bulk lollies + small paper bags + child labour = most popular item at the sale.

Outsource the filling to your kids. That's what they're there for.

2. Iced biscuits = a kids' activity

Bought biscuits + icing sugar + water + sprinkles. Done.

It counts as baking. It counts as quality time. It's a win on all fronts.

3. $10 in an envelope

I can’t be the only one who’s turned up to a bake sale and seen their lovingly baked donation - the one that took planning, a supermarket trip, an evening you could’ve had your feet up, and actual money - being sold for less than the cost of the ingredients?!

Honestly… save your energy when it comes to bake sales. Sometimes the most supportive thing you can do is just hand over a tenner. 😅

4. Baking kits — technically you baked

Kids do most of it, it's at every supermarket, and cheaper than buying ingredients separately.

Our favs: Betty Crocker Triple Choc Brownie and Mrs Rogers Vanilla Cupcakes. You're welcome.

5. Buy the leftovers at pick-up

Support the school, stock the pantry (most freeze well too), get a bargain.

This is the bake sale equivalent of a hat-trick.

The bake sale is just one of a hundred tiny things on your plate this week. PAM quietly handles the stuff that eats your brain - newsletters, reminders, dates, all of it - so the bake sale is the worst thing you have to think about.

We've got your back.