With bake-sale season nearing, it's time to start bookmarking or pinning winning recipe ideas. Too often, sweet treats get tossed aside if they're not kid friendly enough to raise some serious dough. To avoid disappointment, choose recipes like these that are accessible, kid friendly, and supereasy to grab on the go. You'll be the coolest mom at the table with these deliciously sweet treats.
PS In a pinch, consider following these steps to upgrade a sheet cake made from boxed mix.
— Additional reporting by Lizzie Fuhr and Susannah Chen
If your child's school isn't a nut-free campus, bake up a batch of dead-simple peanut butter cookies.
Pretty in pink and scaled to yield a whopping 60 cupcakes, these darling strawberry sweets practically scream "bake sale."
Lucky Charms treats will bring a smile to the faces of children and adults alike.
The Girl Scouts have proved that shortbread can be a bestseller, year after year. Entice bake-sale junkies with a home-baked version that boasts pure butter flavor.
For something a bit unexpected but greatly appreciated, bake vanilla-bean doughnuts.
Bar cookies, like these chocolate-frosted peanut butter bars, generate a large volume of treats for a minimal amount of effort.
Magnolia Bakery and perfect cupcakes are nearly synonymous. Impress your booth-mates by learning the secret to the bakery's vanilla cupcake recipe.
Can you ever go wrong with a simple sugar cookie? We think not!
Is there a bigger bake-sale staple than slices of tender banana bread?
Short on time? Make classic Rice Krispies treats.
For something a bit less sweet, try cake-batter popcorn. Divvy it up into individual cellophane bags for a pretty, portioned-out presentation.
Take the best parts of two classic bake-sale treats — peanut butter cookies and M&M's cookies — and you have this easy-to-make sweet.
Far less messy to dole out than slices of coconut cream pie — there's no need for a pie server, plates, or forks — these cupcakes capture the same flavor profile.
Less obvious than selling classic chocolate chip cookies, offer up thick, soft wedges of chocolate chip cookie cake, complete with creamy frosting.
These gooey chocolate and banana muffins are packed full of flavor while remaining kid friendly.
Bring a taste of Summer to the bake-sale table with s'mores brownies.
Cranberry pecan oatmeal cookies are a great option for those who don't care for chocolate.
Gooey, brown-sugar-based blondies are punctuated with bite-size pieces of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups here.
Sure, you can purchase Hostess cupcakes, but the ultimate version is composed of from-scratch marshmallow filling and freshly made ganache.
Melty chocolate and gooey marshmallow add pockets of joy to chocolate chip cookie s'mores bars.
A dessert with the word cheesecake in it might seem too fussy for a bake sale, until you scan the recipe and realize that churro cheesecake bars only require six ingredients, one of which is crescent roll dough.
Made with yellow cake mix and plenty of sprinkles, these oversize chewy cookies are a crowd-pleaser.
Blanketed in buttercream and rainbow sprinkles, funfetti blondies are pretty much the cutest thing ever.
Upgrade chocolate chip cookies with a generous sprinkling of sea salt.
We'd be sincerely shocked if these double-chocolate peanut butter cupcakes weren't the first treat to sell out.
With a name like monster cookies and a recipe involving peanut butter, chocolate chips, and M&M's, these are bound to be a hit.