Teach kids entrepreneurial and business skills with these simple sweets kids can make and sell for Market Days, fundraisers, bake sales, etc.
Looking for some unique and simple food Market Day ideas for kids to sell (sweets)?
I’ve got some fresh ones for you below.
Just follow the simple steps, and your child will soon be creating their first business product, plus learning how to sell something!
They’re about to learn some fantastic skills (not to mention, raise some cash).
Market Day Ideas for Kids to Sell – Sweets
1. Rice Krispies Treats™ Pops
What an awesome, and simple, upgrade to the typical Rice Krispies Treats™!
Ingredients:
- Chocolate to melt (like semi-sweet chocolate chips)
- Coconut Oil
- Rice Krispies Treats (homemade, or store-bought)
- Sprinkles to dip in
- Food-grade treat sticks/popsicle sticks
Instructions:
Melt the chocolate in the microwave, using a mini slow cooker, etc. Add in about 1 tbsp of coconut oil per cup of chocolate.
Stick the treat sticks through each Rice Krispies Treat™.
Dip the Rice Krispies Treat into the chocolate. Tap it against the side of the bowl to remove excess chocolate. Doesn’t have to cover the whole thing, or be perfect!
Dip it into sprinkles.
Set it on a cooling rack to harden up.
Package up.
2. Foot-Long Cookie Bars
Have you seen the new foot-long cookie bars at Subway®?
I thought they’d be perfect to sell at an event – especially because someone walking around eating a foot-long cookie is a great advertisement, too.
This one is quite simple. Find a cookie bar recipe (I used this one but with chocolate chips), and make sure it fits into a 9” X 13” pan (which happens to measure 1 ft lengthwise).
Allow everything to cool, and cut it into 1-ft. long strips.
Then package it up. I was able to fit them into a lunch bag, or in some parchment paper (you could staple the end if you want to).
3. Playing Card Cookies with Dice
Sometimes, packaging a product with a little somethin’ extra makes all the difference.
That was my thinking with this idea: to bake card-shaped cookies, and include colorful dice with each purchase.
You can find the playing card suit cookie cutters here, and the colorful dice here.
You’ll want to find a sugar cookie recipe (I used a package from the Dollar Tree, just to show you my idea), and icing that will harden.
Bake the cookies in the playing card suit shapes, add icing to them, and allow them to harden/dry, then package them up with as many dice as you’d like (I put the dice in really small baggies so that they wouldn’t touch the food inside).
4. Cookie Dough Cutters
Did you know there is a safe way to eat raw cookie dough?
In fact, people have made entire businesses from it!
What makes it “safe” is you heat-treat the flour, and you use pasteurized egg whites in the recipe.
I read Kristen Tomlan’s book Hello, Cookie Dough, and got to thinking…why not create safe raw cookie dough and package it up in a cute way to sell for market day, bake sales, fundraisers, and more?
Here are the materials:
- Cookie cutters (you might want to get plastic ones, so there’s no potential for rust)
- Little spoons (I got these silver ones at Dollar Tree)
- Plastic bag
- Ribbon
- Ingredients for raw cookie dough
- Parchment paper
After you make the cookie dough, cut square pieces of parchment paper and put one behind each cutter. Fill the cutter with cookie dough (as high as you’d like). Package it with a mini-spoon tied around the plastic with ribbon.
People get to eat the raw cookie dough, and then keep a cute cookie cutter to use later!
Hint: you can get that book for recipes, or look online for safe raw cookie recipes like this one. Also, don’t forget to clean the cookie cutters before using them with food for the first time, and to find a way to keep them cool during the event.
5. Edible Chocolate Gemstones
Look at these beautiful chocolate gems?!
Ingredients:
- Meltable chocolate (like semi-sweet chocolate chips)
- Edible Glitter
- Gem silicone molds
Instructions:
- Melt the chocolate.
- Place in the molds.
- Let cool. Then take the gems out.
- Dip the gems into the edible glitter.
- Package up.
6. Edible Gemstones
My husband literally cannot stop eating these. They're absolutely delicious and poppable!
It’s kind of hard to coat almonds in a candy melt/coconut oil mixture and get them to look smooth (at least for an amateur baker, like myself).
But I figured out that when you coat those “unsmooth” almonds in edible glitter?
Well, they look like gem rocks!
Ingredients:
- Whole Almonds
- White candy melts (or whatever color you’d like)
- Coconut oil
- Edible Glitter
Instructions:
- Melt together a bunch of candy melts and coconut oil (about 1-1.5 tbsps. of coconut oil to one cup of candy melts).
- Drop almonds into the melted mix, and stir to cover thoroughly.
- Use a slatted spatula or spoon to fish the almonds out. Lay them on parchment paper to cool.
- Put 1.5 tbsps. or so of edible glitter into a small plastic bag, and add in 5-7 coated almonds. Shake up, then take them out and put them on a plate. Repeat for all of the coated almonds.
7. Rainbow Chocolate Bars
This one is so simple, and it packs a punch!
Ingredients:
- Chocolate Bars
- Colorful Candy Melts
Grab chocolate bars that are already made – definitely price check and try to buy in bulk for this one.
For example, you can buy this pack of 36 full-sized chocolate bars for about $0.65 each.
You’ll need candy melts of different colors, cellophane food bags, and a ribbon to tie them off. I also grabbed some gorgeous glass beads that I thought would interest buyers more because they get to keep the bead after they eat the chocolate!
Simply follow the instructions on how to melt the candy melts, then unwrap and decorate your chocolate candy bars. Splashes of color, coloring the whole bar with one color as I did, or trying out graffiti would be fun, too!
Let them dry and wrap them in the cellophane bag. Thread a glass bead through the ribbon (if you’re using one), and tie it around the bag.
Psst: if your child really gets into chocolate businesses, check out the Chocolate Business Project I did with my own son last summer.
That's it! Which Market Day food sweets are you most excited to make and sell?
Amanda L. Grossman
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