our healthy classroom bake sale gets an A++

Hey schweets.

Listen up to what Jehane (our event coordinator) and Chryssi (our assistant event coordinator) had to say about our bake sale last week...

"Is it an advertisement for the cupcake factory? Is it the cover of a recipe book? Is it a shot from a scene of Desperate Housewives?

Nope! You are not dreaming, it’s actually a photo of our last bake sale! Indeed, it was that amazing. But don’t be fooled, it was not only beautiful but also delicious and helpful since we have collected over 500 hundreds for the Children's Food Education Foundation. I am really impressed by all we can do with just a few eggs, a cup of flour, a spoon of butter, a pinch of sugar and a bunch of motivated people. Therefore, I would like to thank every person that, both with smiles and sweets, has contributed to this beautiful table and to this fantastic day."

- Jehane

"The theme of the Healthy Classroom Bake Sale was to incorporate healthy concepts in the recipes for the baked goods. The money we raised went towards the Children’s Food Education Foundation, an organization that teaches children how to eat healthy at a young age. Representatives from the organization came for support and provided items for us to use in our raffle as you can see in the photo below. They also supplied aprons, cookbooks, silicone cupcake trays and card games.

This bake sale was held outside of Marxine’s Café in the Campus Hub. This was a good location but a better location would have been around the front of the Hub facing the central courtyard. We would have had more exposure and more opportunities to sell the baked items to students seeing as more students pass by there than the location we used.

The bake sale was successful. We raised $511.00 for the Children’s Food Education Foundation. Many members baked for this event and brought their baked goods throughout the day which really benefited us because we had an assortment of things for customers to choose from for the entire duration of the bake sale. Also, all of the members that came were very helpful.

For the next event we should be a little more organised. We need to write down who brought what, the ingredients, and the prices immediately upon the arrival of the item so as not to lose track of who is contributing and to better help the customers decide what to get for example if they have allergies. Also, we need to be more organised when members show up to volunteer, by checking their name off a list or by making a list with the people who show up on it, and we need a list of the volunteers and their time slots on hand so we can check and make sure everyone is doing their part.

This was my first event with Sweets by Sweets as the assistant event coordinator. For me personally the bake sale was a lot of fun, it ran very smoothly and I could not have asked for a better way to start off in this position!"

- Chryssi


Thank you for your thoughts and very constructive suggestions, girls. You have done such a great job so far and I honestly cannot wait to see what you guys come up with for future events.

Sincerely,

Stephy.