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These cookies won't break the bank or take up a whole afternoon — you probably won't even need a trip to the store, as they just call for peanut butter, sugar, and an egg.

Plus, they're great if you need a gluten-free option for the bake sale. How simple are these? As user ONIOND says, "I made these while standing and chatting with a friend. The classic marshmallow treat gets a colorful upgrade from everyone's favorite sprinkle-filled cake batter.

And the added colorful crunch of Fruity Pebbles cereal makes them a game changer at the bake sale table! Make sure to line the pan with parchment paper for easy removal, or spray with cooking spray like Allrecipes user cookin'nana recommends.

This twist on the classic tea cake came as a happy surprise for home cook jaibux: "I was trying to make lemon cookies, but ended up making something totally different and I was glad with the outcome. No extra frills on these, making them an easy dessert to make in a tight turnaround.

Bake these until the top springs back slightly when pressed, then cool on a wire rack before packing up for the bake sale. And if you have any doubts about how easy these are, check out this user review from Oscarette: "We are 8 years old and we made them all by ourselves.

Get ready to watch these fly off the bake sale table — who can say no to a classic chocolate chip cookie? Our home cooks recommend chilling the dough at least an hour before baking this will help the cookies come out even and allowing them to cool on the cookie sheet for extra chewiness.

Hand pies in a half hour? It's possible when you cut down on prep time by starting with pre-made pie dough and canned cherry pie filling. Simply cut the dough into rounds, scoop in filling, and crimp the edges with a fork before tossing in the air fryer. Pro tip: Work in batches for an even bake.

No bake sale is complete without a classic snickerdoodle recipe, and this recipe from Beth Sigworth will not disappoint. Most snickerdoodle recipes call for cream of tartar, an ingredient that gives the cookies their signature tangy flavor and pillowy texture.

But if you don't have it on hand, simply swap the cream of tartar with double the amount of lemon juice or vinegar. If you want a kid-friendly addition to your bake sale, look no further than these colorful cookies. You can use any variety of chocolate candy mix in, depending on your taste.

Take inspiration from user MANDACOOK1, who opted for candy-covered mint pieces. In their words, they turned out "heavenly. Chocolate and peanut butter lovers will have a hard time passing these over. Plus, you don't even need to turn on your oven to whip up this bake sale dessert.

Take it from user Lorrie: "Absolutely great recipe and suitable to take to a potluck or bake sale. Popcorn balls are a nostalgic and easy pick for your upcoming bake sale.

I'm looking for metafilter recommendations for baked goods that can be made with cheap pantry staples. For instance, I love this molasses cookie Budget Baking: 10 Cheap Recipes That Won't Break The Bank · WANT TO SAVE THIS RECIPE? · 3-Ingredient Flatbread · Traditional Irish Bread & Butter These baked goods are inexpensive to make, but don't compromise on quality. · 1) Classic Sandwich Bread · 2) No-Knead Crusty White Bread · 3) Cake

Low-cost Baked Goods - Try baking these sweet treats that won't break the budget. Slices, muffins, biscuits and cakes, we've got new and old classic recipes that needn't cost I'm looking for metafilter recommendations for baked goods that can be made with cheap pantry staples. For instance, I love this molasses cookie Budget Baking: 10 Cheap Recipes That Won't Break The Bank · WANT TO SAVE THIS RECIPE? · 3-Ingredient Flatbread · Traditional Irish Bread & Butter These baked goods are inexpensive to make, but don't compromise on quality. · 1) Classic Sandwich Bread · 2) No-Knead Crusty White Bread · 3) Cake

Instead, make this popular mash-up that combines the best of both worlds. Get the Brookies recipe. Serving pie at a bake sale isn't always easy and it requires plates. But with these apple pie bars, you can grab a slice without the fuss.

Get the Apple Pie Bars recipe. Crispy, chewy cereal treats are an all-time classic. This recipe will remind you of the kind you had as a kid, but with even more flavor.

Get Ree's Pumpkin Spice Cereal Treats recipe. From the tender apple-spiced cake to the maple brown butter frosting, there's so much to love about this simple snack cake.

You might even want to make an extra to round out your holiday desserts. Get the Applesauce Cake recipe. SHOP BAKING TOOLS. These chocolate-glazed brownie bites are so good, it'll be hard to eat just one.

If your bake sale is happening later in the school year, turn the brownies into graduation hats using chocolate squares and sour candy belts. Get Ree's Graduation Brownie Bites recipe.

Who can resist the classic combination of chocolate and peanut butter? Roll the dough in sanding sugar using your school colors for even more school spirit.

Get the Peanut Butter Blossoms recipe. Give everyone the opportunity to have their own individual cheesecake—whipped cream and all!

Get the Mini Pumpkin Cheesecakes recipe. Here's a fun bake sale idea: Top these no-bake truffles with pretty sprinkles or nonpareils, then wrap a few of them up in cellophane bags with ribbon for an impressive presentation. Get Ree's Oreo Truffles recipe.

Instead of cinnamon, these sweet and chewy cookies are packed with pumpkin pie spice. They're perfect when paired with your favorite pumpkin beverage.

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This is the kind of thing that makes me feel like I can't afford to bake. I did start making my own vanilla extract last year, and it's been fantastic - MUCH cheaper, very easy, and identical to the store-bought kind. Best answer: I'm always storing away stuff in the freezer to keep it from spoiling beyond the point where it can be used: sour milk, overripe bananas, bread crusts, lemon and orange rind and juice, mashed potatoes, etc.

When it comes to deciding what to bake, the first thing I do is nose through my freezer and fridge and the vegetable and fruit crispers and see what I have that should be used up, and then I figure out what I can make from that.

I have a number of standby mashed potato recipes bannock bread , mashed potato cookies , potato donuts , for instance. if I don't have a recipe on hand I look on the net for a nice simple one that just calls for things I have, and like a previous poster I skip some of the more expensive ingredients such as nuts.

It seems like a nice cost-efficient way to bake to me. You'll have to buy stuff, of course, and other people are making good recommendations on what and how to buy baking ingredients on a budget, but very often you'll just be figuring out what to do with what you have.

posted by orange swan at PM on July 10, Make a sourdough starter, and use that instead of yeast. posted by Ideefixe at PM on July 10, Best answer: This tip is useless for saving money unless you similarly find yourself throwing away spoiled dairy from time to time, but if you ever buy yogurt or sour cream for other purposes that you know you won't finish off, then you should use it for baking.

Until I started doing this, I hated to even buy sour cream for taco night because I knew that half of it would get thrown away. posted by gatorae at PM on July 10, Best answer: Ooh, yeah, try not to buy the yeast in envelopes if possible, it's ridiculously more expensive than even a small jar.

Sometimes grocery stores will stock them in slightly different places envelopes at eye level near the bread, jars on top or bottom shelf - and if you don't see what you need, you can ask most grocery store managers to get it in stock. Seconding gatorae's comment about freezing dairy products.

I am not much of a milk drinker, so I buy powdered milk and keep it in the freezer. It will keep for ages at room temp but does eventually go very, very bad.

It's gross on its own but in baked goods you would never know it's been reconstituted. posted by jessicapierce at PM on July 10, [ 1 favorite ]. and reduced sugar without sacrificing moistness or sweetness posted by missmagenta at PM on July 10, Best answer: My local farmer's market sells pound bags of yeast that I can vouch for being awesome over a year after opening it kept in fridge.

Also, Dorie Greenspan's buttermilk biscuits are my goto biscuit recipe: they's fine with fake buttermilk, work as rolled-out or drop biscuits, and can be baked from a frozen raw state.

And they taste good. Best answer: I follow a blog called The Frugal Girl. Her other big tip is to wait for flour to go on sale, then buy tons of it. Usually it goes on sale right before Thanksgiving and Christmas for the holiday baking season. posted by CathyG at PM on July 10, [ 1 favorite ].

From Ms. posted by a robot made out of meat at PM on July 10, In my experience, generics of "non-flavored" staples like flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, etc.

King Arthur flour is kind of amazing and does yield a slightly more tender crumb in cakes and cookies, but the difference is usually not worth the extra price, for me. Best answer: This granola bar recipe is killer and responds well to a lot of various adaptations.

And her numbers are a bit off - there's no way the recipe can support cups of add-ins it can take 1. I find that when I make these with chocolate, a miracle occurs; using not even half a cup of chocolate chips yields a deceptively rich, chocolatey result.

Mix this up separately in a little bowl until it's foamy, then add to your recipe. You can double, triple, quadruple it with no problems. I've used this in cookies, muffins, carrot cake, and quickbreads. Because it requires lots of eggs, consider freezing any lingering eggs that might otherwise go bad and baking this recipe with them in the future — saving money and preventing food waste!

For more budget baking tips, see our previous post: The King Arthur guide to baking on a budget. Cover photography and food styling No-Knead Crusty White Bread by Liz Neily.

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Low-cost Baked Goods - Try baking these sweet treats that won't break the budget. Slices, muffins, biscuits and cakes, we've got new and old classic recipes that needn't cost I'm looking for metafilter recommendations for baked goods that can be made with cheap pantry staples. For instance, I love this molasses cookie Budget Baking: 10 Cheap Recipes That Won't Break The Bank · WANT TO SAVE THIS RECIPE? · 3-Ingredient Flatbread · Traditional Irish Bread & Butter These baked goods are inexpensive to make, but don't compromise on quality. · 1) Classic Sandwich Bread · 2) No-Knead Crusty White Bread · 3) Cake

Best answer: If I need to keep costs down, I automatically rule out any recipes with nuts - those tend to add up quickly.

I almost felt like apologizing once for a pie I'd made with generic chocolate chips. Frankly, with baking, I've found that substitutions can often produce unsatisfying results.

Rather than substitute cheaper ingredients for more expensive ones, my strategy is to try to purchase the ingredients I need at the lowest price possible. I don't know if these suggestions will help, since they all involve long-term planning rather than immediate solutions, but here's what's worked for me: - Buy dry ingredients flour, sugar, etc.

in bulk. I do have particular brands of flour I prefer for pastries, breads, etc. I always buy the largest size available provided it's actually the cheapest.

I'll purchase several containers at the sale price, then slice and freeze them. This works well for peaches, raspberries, and other fruits that are usually very expensive.

Sugars, baking powder, baking soda, and butter provided you know it's butter and not "butter spread" - those labels are deceiving are all fine to purchase as generics, in my experience. I am brand-conscious when it comes to flours and chocolate. Sometimes they've got great deals on fruit - other times they're quite a bit more expensive than the store.

posted by pecanpies at PM on July 10, [ 1 favorite ]. Best answer: Seconding everything pecanpies said, with the addition that I buy butter whenever it's on sale and freeze it. I have about 8 sticks in the freezer right now that were about 25 cents apiece between sale price and coupons.

posted by gatorae at PM on July 10, [ 1 favorite ]. Best answer: I substitute fats and sugars all the time, depending on what I've got on hand. I've made sandwich breads and rolls with butter, olive oil supermarket quality, not my good stuff , duck fat, etc. You can adapt apple cake and banana bread recipes for almost any fruit, just adjust for sweetness and liquid volume.

You might find Michael Rulhman's book Ratio helpful. posted by desuetude at PM on July 10, [ 1 favorite ]. Response by poster: These are good suggestions, but I should mention that I don't have a car, so there's a limit to how much I can stock up.

Freezing butter and fruit is a good idea, though. Are there good sources out there for simple, old-timey, super-cheap recipes?

For instance, I like making baking powder biscuits if I wind up with unexpected guests. Basically, I'd like to be able to cook like a frugal grandma.

posted by GraceCathedral at PM on July 10, Make your own vanilla extract. This has to have saved me hundreds over the years I'm a pastry chef. You mention preferring no-knead bread because it calls for less yeast, but if you did the math on yeast I bet the difference is like a penny.

Standard white bread is going to cost pretty much the same despite variations in recipes, and the main expense there is the ingredient you use in the largest volume: flour.

When flour is on sale, buy some and keep it in the freezer if necessary. posted by jessicapierce at PM on July 10, Best answer: You can buy bulk yeast, and I suspect many other dry ingredients, online. I found the yeast I prefer sold by the pound through a retailer whose name rhymes with "Shamazon.

posted by itstheclamsname at PM on July 10, Jam on biscuits, fruit or a small amount of chocolate atop cake, etc. Angel food cake is absurdly cheap and easier to make than most people suspect you do NOT need the special pan!

And it's impressive as hell. Response by poster: Will definitely look at buying yeast online. This is the kind of thing that makes me feel like I can't afford to bake. I did start making my own vanilla extract last year, and it's been fantastic - MUCH cheaper, very easy, and identical to the store-bought kind.

Best answer: I'm always storing away stuff in the freezer to keep it from spoiling beyond the point where it can be used: sour milk, overripe bananas, bread crusts, lemon and orange rind and juice, mashed potatoes, etc.

When it comes to deciding what to bake, the first thing I do is nose through my freezer and fridge and the vegetable and fruit crispers and see what I have that should be used up, and then I figure out what I can make from that. I have a number of standby mashed potato recipes bannock bread , mashed potato cookies , potato donuts , for instance.

if I don't have a recipe on hand I look on the net for a nice simple one that just calls for things I have, and like a previous poster I skip some of the more expensive ingredients such as nuts.

It seems like a nice cost-efficient way to bake to me. You'll have to buy stuff, of course, and other people are making good recommendations on what and how to buy baking ingredients on a budget, but very often you'll just be figuring out what to do with what you have.

posted by orange swan at PM on July 10, Make a sourdough starter, and use that instead of yeast. posted by Ideefixe at PM on July 10, Best answer: This tip is useless for saving money unless you similarly find yourself throwing away spoiled dairy from time to time, but if you ever buy yogurt or sour cream for other purposes that you know you won't finish off, then you should use it for baking.

Until I started doing this, I hated to even buy sour cream for taco night because I knew that half of it would get thrown away.

posted by gatorae at PM on July 10, Best answer: Ooh, yeah, try not to buy the yeast in envelopes if possible, it's ridiculously more expensive than even a small jar. Sometimes grocery stores will stock them in slightly different places envelopes at eye level near the bread, jars on top or bottom shelf - and if you don't see what you need, you can ask most grocery store managers to get it in stock.

Seconding gatorae's comment about freezing dairy products. I am not much of a milk drinker, so I buy powdered milk and keep it in the freezer. It will keep for ages at room temp but does eventually go very, very bad.

It's gross on its own but in baked goods you would never know it's been reconstituted. posted by jessicapierce at PM on July 10, [ 1 favorite ]. and reduced sugar without sacrificing moistness or sweetness posted by missmagenta at PM on July 10, Best answer: My local farmer's market sells pound bags of yeast that I can vouch for being awesome over a year after opening it kept in fridge.

If you love ginger nuts, you'll love these American-style spiced biscuits with chunks of stem ginger, dipped in dark chocolate.

This dark and sticky ginger cake is made healthier with naturally sweet dates, buttermilk and plenty of cinnamon and fresh ginger. This thrifty traybake sponge used canned fruit and coconut yogurt.

Cut into squares and serve up at a party or cake sale. Kids will love making these little chocolate cupcakes, with a crunchy biscuit base and Easter egg topping. These savoury scones are perfect with potted fish.

Make early in the day then warm before serving, for the best results. Good Food reader, Win Morgan shares her recipe for this traditional Welsh tea bread loaf with mixed spice - serve sliced and spread with butter. Give homemade biscuits a fruity spin by sandwiching a layer of apricots in between two layers of buttery tray-baked shortbread.

Edd Kimber's easy apple cake combines chunks of sweet apple and a crunchy demerara sugar topping. Perfect for a teatime treat or dessert, served with warm custard.

This traditional favourite is a perfect way to end a decadent meal- but our version is made lighter with extra apple and half-fat crème fraîche.

Edd Kimber talks through how to master piping and flood icing to create these cute cookies with a distinct decoration. Cook from the heart and serve these raspberry-centred biscuits to kids, young and old - you don't need a special cutter, either. Teach year olds how to make fairy cakes and guarantee a fun kitchen activity.

A cross between banana bread and a drizzle cake, this easy banana loaf recipe is a quick bake that can be frozen. It's great for using up overripe bananas, too.

For a deliciously nostalgic cake, combine a classic flavour combination of orange and chocolate in this retro two-tone bake. Use lemon, lime or grapefruit in this squidgy baked dessert - a simple and nostalgic family pud. These heart-shaped cookies with a crunchy mint filling are fun for children to make and give as a present.

Mary's Cadogan's crisp citrus cookies make perfect decorations - just stamp them with the celebration motif of your choice.

Steam a traditional fruity sponge pudding with suet, citrus zest and currants then serve in thick slices with hot custard. A chewy, oaty tray bake with sticky dates and apples - bound to be a big hit. These sweet, nutty, spiced biscuits can be served after dinner, or packaged up as gifts for family and friends.

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