It’s Time to Bake!
“Let them eat cake—or cookies, or pie, or special breads, or muffins, or a treat of your choice,” that’s our big message for all the membership. We have scheduled a Bake Sale for Saturday, May 16, from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Ace Hardware Store in McKinleyville. The location is at the corner of Central Avenue and Pickett Road. Member support is needed for baked items and volunteers to work at the sale. Call Margaret Stafford at 822-3255, Cindy Lewis at 442-1187, or Colleen Hedrick at 268-0101. Baked goods and volunteers to staff the sale may be carpooled if that is most convenient.
Beyond the big layer cakes, full size pies, and cookies by the dozen, it is suggested that convenient packaging is a good selling point for bake sales. Small households are likely to view six or fewer items as better suited to their use. Using foil pans, heavy duty paper plates, or bargain plates from a dollar store is good bake-sale merchandising. Dressing up packaging with colorful bows, or yarn, or charms is a sales tool and some people could be drawn to the product that includes a recipe. BY COLLEEN HEDRICK
