What are good easy cakes to make for a bake sale?

Here are some of my fave recipes I collected over the past couple of years. I listed the moistest and the most delicious ones, and those with common ingredients.

Buttermilk raspberry cake

• 1 cup all-purpose flour

• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

• 1/4 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 stick unsalted butter, softened

• 2/3 cup plus 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar, divided

• 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

• 1 large egg

• 1/2 cup well-shaken buttermilk

• 1 cup fresh raspberries (about 5 ounces)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 400°F with rack in middle. Butter and flour a 9-inch round cake pan.

Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Beat butter and 2/3 cup sugar with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes, then beat in vanilla. Add egg and beat well.

At low speed, mix in flour mixture in 3 batches, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour, and mixing until just combined. Spoon batter into cake pan, smoothing top. Scatter raspberries evenly over top and sprinkle with remaining 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar.

Bake until cake is golden and a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack and cool to warm, 10 to 15 minutes more. Invert onto a plate. I like to glaze this with simple dark chocolate/white chocolate guanache half and half, or nutella ;)

Classical Angel Food Cake

Ingredients

Cake:

• 1 cup cake flour

• 1 cup sugar

• 12 large egg whites (egg whites from large eggs, no yolks in the whites!)

• Pinch salt

• 1 teaspoon cream of tartar

• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

• 1 lemon, zested

• 1 orange, zested

Directions

For the cake:

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

Sift the flour together with 1/2 cup of the sugar and set aside. Put the egg whites in the bowl of an electric mixer. Be SURE that the bowl is clean and dry, any fat in the bowl can prevent the egg whites from whipping up fluffy fluffy fluffy! Add the salt and the cream of tartar to the egg whites. Beat the egg whites on a medium-high speed until they reach soft peaks, about 5 minutes. While the mixer is running, gradually add the remaining sugar. DO NOT plop the sugar in all at once or it will push the air out of the whites that we are trying to beat in. Add in the vanilla and zests and then stop the mixer. Add 1/3 of the flour/sugar mixture and fold gently fold, do this quickly but gently. Repeat the process 2 more times until all of the flour/sugar mixture is incorporated.

Transfer the cake batter into an ungreased tube pan. Bang the cake pan on the counter a couple of times to release any air bubbles trapped in the cake batter.

Bake the cake on a sheet tray in the preheated oven until it is light and springy, about 1 1/4 hours. Cool the cake for at least 1 hour before unmolding. Serve with the tropical fruit compote.

And the classical gluten free cake, the red velvet cake, Southern Red Velvet Cake

Cake Ingredients:

1 3/4 c. canola oil

1 1/2 c. sugar

2 eggs, beaten (room temp)

You can use gluten free flour mix that has Xantham gum in it or add it in

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. xanthan gum

1/4 tsp. salt

1 c. buttermilk (or 1 Tbsp cider vinegar and 1 c. milk substitute)

1 tsp. vanilla

1 oz. red food coloring (or 1.25 cup of mashed cooked beets!)

3 Tbsp. cocoa

Frosting Ingredients:

1 box confectioner’s sugar

8 oz. cream cheese (can sub vegan cream cheese)

1 stick butter (room temp)

1 c. chopped nuts (optional)

1 tsp vanilla

Cake Instructions:

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Use a mixer to cream oil and sugar. With the mixer still going, add one egg at a time and beat until the eggs are thoroughly incorporated. (This step creates an emulsion that holds the batter together)

3. Mix all of the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl. Make sure they are well mixed, either by sifting the flours or whisking them.

4. Add the flour to the oil and sugar mixture in four parts. Alternate the flour with the buttermilk. You should begin and end with dry ingredients and each part should be mixed in completely before you add the next. (If you were to start with the liquids the emulsion would break.)

5. Make a paste of the cocoa, red food coloring, and vanilla and gently stir it into the batter.

6. Pour the batter into two greased and floured round cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees F for approximately 25 minutes. (A toothpick stuck into the middle of the cake should come out clean when the cake is done)

7. When the cakes have completely cooled, frost with Cream Cheese Frosting.

Frosting Instructions:

1. Cream the confectioner’s sugar, cream cheese, and butter.

2. Mix in the vanilla and chopped nuts.

3. Spread over cooled cake.

For more gluten free ideas: http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/2009/09/glut...

A very trendy thing right now is Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Icing. I just use a good quality mix and make the icing from scratch.

You could also do them in cupcakes which are extremely popular and pricey, make sure you decorate them, like a red rose on the white icing.

If you want homemade, a carrot cake sold by the slice, decorate with an orange carrot w/ green tops.

http://www.joyofbaking.com/LemonFrostedLemonCake.h...

the lemon cake seems easy and cheapish...as well as the orange pound cake shown

http://www.joyofbaking.com/LemonFrostedLemonCake.h...

we are all sad about the famine.it is horrible and it is not the only place in the world where people go hungr,die of lack of hygene.

the best thing would be to teach those who live under those conditions birth controll.

because, FAO,and whole hearted people like you want to help,but people living like that have NO future.you´d need to feed them for the next 60 years.look at the mothers:they are as weak as the babies and can not find a job!

better to think about the consequences of having children and NOT bringing them into a world to just suffer!

tg state high because the year 11 (and 12 i think) are doing a bake sale for 40 hour famine :D

Rock Buns are so easy to make and very cheap too, I make them all the time for my Grand children and friends. You can get the recipe online just type in "Rock Buns". You can vary the recipe too by adding cinnamon or lemon peel or whatever you like . They take ten minutes to make and ten minutes to cook . Yummy !! I like them split open with butter but they are nice as they are. Hope this helps.

carrot cake with cream cheese icing.

mmmmm my mum makes the best with her secret recipe

lamingtons are always a winner at schools

buy it at the store and tell them you made it...