OK, so my best friend is putting together a carnival/fair for next month for her church that she works at and asked me to donate some small cakes for a cake walk game thing so I decided to do 3 cakes. Then she asked if I wanted to do a booth for selling my cakes and sweets and advertising for my business since I am new to the area.
I of course will have my photo album to give people some ideas of cakes they might want from me... but then I am trying to think of what else I can sell and what kind of prices.

So far I thought of the following things to sell:
fudge
chocolate dipped strawberries
suckers
cakes, whole and by the slice
brownie cups
want to try and stay away from cookies but might make some

the only think i am not sure of is pricing...

any suggestions on what else i could make and what prices???

It is really hard to predict what people will buy. Try to make goodies that will stay fresh or freeze if you don't sell them at the fair.

California is pretty strict about selling to the public. Do you have a licensed kitchen? You wouldn't want to prepare all your product to find a health inspector sending you home.

Cake Balls. These were a big hit for me. Also Chocolate covered marshmellows on a stick decorated with sprinkles, mini choc chips, etc...Cookies on a stick.

Sue

a couple of marshmallows on a stick dipped in chocolate and drizzl white chocolate on them kids will love them.

My SIL dips pretzel rods in chocolate, almond bark or candy melts. She has quite a variety as she then covers them in cake sprinkles, chopped nuts, etc. For the holidays, she double dips them so they're bi-colored: red/green.

Wish she'd try a chocolate and carmel combo - that's my favorite. (Love those decadent, expensive multi-dipped, chocolate covered carmel apples.)

HTH

A cute idea I saw recently was pretzel rods dipped about 3/4 of the way in chocolate and sprinkles added. They were nice looking.

Jan H,
you are I were posting the same idea at the same time. Now we know for sure that great minds think alike LOL

AnythingSugar,

Wow, maybe I "heard" you thinking..... (How cool!)

But you're right, it's a great idea!

joannb
i actually live in AZ now and they have looked into the whole food handling license thing and since it's a small group they are ok with me doing it. they are having a bake sell too and selling hot dogs and such in the carnival so we are covered.
thanx everyone for all the ideas... what about pricing though??? that's my biggest dilema

I just did my first craft show this weekend & the biggest hits were the chocolate pretzel rods, I coated them half way with choco/pb combo then covered it in cookie crumbs. the other 2 big hits were the cupcakes I made, I added a royal icing red poinssetia on top. I also baked carrot, pumpkin spice & lemon cakes in the mini bundt pan (you know the one that has 6 cavities)... They were all big hits!!! Hope this helps!

I think if you have at least some items for $1, you will get impulse buyers. If you are allowed to have samples, you might offer tiny bites of your most delicious item to get them hooked to buy more. Fudge is a good one. You can put tiny bites on a toothpick.