Wednesday
Oct052011
Our second-greatest talent? - by Avi Glickstein
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 2:36PM Over our ten-year history, Polybe + Seats has always been able to rely on one tried-and-true method of fundraising: the bake sale. From the outside, it may appear that being able to bake is a prerequisite for new Company Members. This isn't the case, but, somehow, we've continued to attract little bread and cake babies who love to just crank out the sweets (myself included).
This past Sunday, we put ourselves to work to raise funds for Alice, or the Scottish Gravediggers (opening October 20 - ahem, ahem) and wound up having our most successful sale to date - we raised over $500! How good do treats have to be to make that kind of money? We've posted some pictures so you can see for yourself.
However, here are some basic principles we followed that we think are essential to any profitable bake sale:
However, here are some basic principles we followed that we think are essential to any profitable bake sale:
1) Don't limit yourselves to human beings. We had lots of happy four-legged customers on Sunday. In fact, we even sold the few treats we had left to an amazingly sweet pitbull named Sammy while having after-sale beers at Mission Dolores.
2) You can never overbake. We thought we had too much stock. We were wrong. We finished the day with a small bowl of the single, sole surviving members of various baked goods families and exactly one dozen tiny apple pies. True, we were making deals like crazy toward the end of the day, but so what? "Hand over fist," as my entrepreneurial wife said. Yep.
3) Location, location, location - the Executive Director of our performance venue, Kim at the Old Stone House, was generous enough to let us set up on the sidewalk in front of the grounds and also contacted the Park Slope farmers market, which was right next to us, to make sure we wouldn't tick them off. And they were generous enough to not mind us being there. Truthfully, they had nothing to worry about since their market is filled with amazing things like Doc Pickle, Go-Go Pops, and Barry's Tempeh. It also helps to be able to say, "We're raising money for a show that's going up RIGHT THERE in two weeks!" Oh boy. Two weeks. Yeesh.
and last...
4) Don't be surprised if people in your company go a little crazy. We had more than one person stay up into the wee hours "waiting for things to cool" and what not. Well whatever everyone did, it was beautiful, delicious, and gone, gone, gone. The bank don't lie, my friends.
And speaking of friends, here are the people you need to accost to cater your next birthday party and some of the bounty they brought forth (for some reason, my authorial voice has turned Biblical - huh):
Katya Schapiro - Chocolate Whoopie Pies with Pear Mousseline Filling, Buckwheat Cookies with Cacao Nibs, Tomato Tart
Sarah Sakaan - Butter Cookies, Tiny Apple Pies, Cream Cheese-Frosted Pumpkin Cupcakes (remember those "wee hours" people?)
Avi Glickstein - Plum Tart
Stacey McMath - Peanut Butter Dog Treats and Liver Dog Treats
Catherine Wallach - Banana Bread, Pumpkin Bread, Fudgy Brownies, Corn Muffins
Jessica Brater - Cheesy Beer Bread, Sugar Cookies w/Candied Kansas Sunflower Seeds
Bevan Dunbar - Marzipan Snails...MARZIPAN SNAILS!
Miriam Felton-Dansky - Cheesecake Swirl Brownies
Kate Marvin - Plum Torte (they're in season, ok?)
Ok, now if you missed the sale and are salivating, I will say this. Traditionally, there has been some sort of baked good or goods sold at our plays. I'm not promising anything, but your best shot is to come see...
Beginning October 20!
Reader Comments (8)
Bread and cake babies? Man those popsicles (and all the plum tartes/tortes) were delicious.
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