Bake Sale

This past week at the CAP open house, my change project group had a bake sale. It was a great experiment and very beneficial. We raised almost $200 dollars which is way more than we expected to.
Every member of our group had to bake something. We had many bake goods including brownies, different types of cookies, muffins and homemade granola bars.
I decided to make snicker doodle cookies, ginger cookies and chocolate chip cookies.I ended up making more than enough cookies. Today, a week after the bake sale, I still have many containers of cookies in my freezer. However, the cookies were very popular, especially the chocolate chip cookies.
It was hard deciding what we should charge for the bake goods. We wanted to charge enough to get a substantial amount of money in the end, but not too much because than no one would buy. We settled on $1 for everything except for the smaller cookies and muffins which were 50 cents.
I learned that if you told people your cause for the bake sale, they are more willing to buy something.
Many people bought things,but when you told them that all proceeds were going to the Children's Medical Center, they usually bought more. A few people just gave us donations without even buying anything which was very thoughtful. Thank goodness the meeting were for teenagers because those we our best customers.
It was a good thing that we had  5 people in our change project group because at times our table became very chaotic, especially after the CAP meeting finished. After the meeting at times we had 10 customers at our small table.
If we are to do another bake sale, next time I feel that we should include a beverage. Many small children came up to us asking if we had anything to drink.
In conclusion, having a bake sale was a very fun and helped a lot towards our change project goal. We hope to raise about $300 in the end and because of the bake sale we've almost reached our goal.