What is a cheap, original, and easy bake sale idea?!

Do rice crispie squares, but with a twist~~ When you make them, add 1/3 cup of cocoa to the marshamallows once they have melted, and then instead of putting them in one big pan and cutting them into squares, put them in a muffin pan and flatten each one down, and then frost them and decorate them. For an even better variation of that, get some salted pretzels, break them into pieces just a bit bigger than the rice crispies, and add tat to the mix with the rice crispies. The pretzels make them AWESOME!! The saltiness and chocolate is just magic together. Hope this helps, good luck.

Get an assortment of grocery store cookies, pretzels, and nuts. Go to the baking section and get the kind of chocolate that you melt and use for truffles and candy coating. You can get white chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. Dip half of each cookie (like a nutter butter, or oreo, or graham cracker) in the chocolate. Dry on a rack. Filla little metallic cupcake liner with some, and do a little twist up with red saran wrap and a bit of curly ribbon. You can make little nut clusters, dip some pretzel sticks or 1/2 of a bowtie pretzel (DON'T use soft pretzels, only hard ones). Whatever cookie you like with chocolate, you can dip. If strawberries aren't tooooo expensive, you can do dipped strawberries, too...leave the stem and leaves on, wash and dry well, and bip about 3/4 of the berry from the tip toward the stem. You can dry them on the rack, then put a contrasting color of warm chocolate in a ziplock, nip justa tiny bit of the corner off, and drizzle the second or even both other colors of chocolate, back and forth accross the berry to make a striped look.

Try to make marbled cupcakes (if you know what I mean). Those look really cool. You can use strawberry and strawberry with purple food coloring. For icing, use pink or purple icing. Sprinkles would also be cute. It tastes great and looks pretty if done correctly. It shouldn't take much longer than it does to make regular cupcakes.

Make fruit and chocolate filled beggars purses. They are cute, and pretty east to make if your local store sells those frozen wonton shells...

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1ece_1s4bkU/S3…

http://www.godiva.com/recipes/recipe.asp…

that one goes a little all out

This one is a little more reasonable, but I might omit the nuts or at least make a sign in case someone has an allergy

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeri…

this one looks like a good idea too. you can just buy truffles in the candy aisle at your store. doesn't have to be super ingredients

http://www.recipeonline.org/restaurant/s…

and just leave out the garnishes and ice cream. Just sell the purses.

Caramel Squares
397 g 1 pkg caramels
30 mL 2 tbsp butter or margarine
2 mL 1/2 tsp vanilla extract (optional)
30 mL 2 tbsp milk
1.5 L 6 cups RICE KRISPIES* cereal
1.Unwrap caramels and place in large microwaveable glass bowl. Add butter and milk. Microwave++ at HIGH 3-4 minutes or until melted and smooth, stirring after each minute.
2.Add cereal and vanilla, stirring until evenly coated.
3.Press evenly into lightly-buttered 3.5 L (13 x 9") pan.
Let stand until firm. Cut into bars or squares.
++Step 1 may be done on stove-top in large saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring constantly.

There are some other ideas here if you want to look
http://www.ricekrispies.ca/cgi-bin/rk_ca…

Buy some flat bottom icecream cones.
Make some cupcake batter
place cones in a muffin pan standing up
Fill cups about 3/4 of the way up
cook until cup cake has expanded over top of cone in a dome shape and cake is cooked,
ice like an ice cream cone.

You could make rocky road you don't have to make it with fruit and chocolate my friend makes it with malteasers, marshmallows, dark and light chocolate but you can add whatever you like google rocky road nigella lawson hope it goes well.

http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/red-… ( that would probably take some time to bake)

or just make a small pouch with hershey kisses( best 4 valentine day or any other candy) inside
http://qbeesquest.blogspot.com/2011/01/v… (something like this)

Peanut butter balls with red, pink and white sprinkles
http://www.barefootmommies.com/?p=11085

Chocolate Cinnamon Heart Cookies
http://cafejohnsonia.blogspot.com/2009/0…

Magic cookie bars...simple simple simple and very good. Just look em up. :)

allrecipes.com/recipe/magic-cookie-bars-…

How about individual small brown bags filled with fresh popcorn.

Valentine cookie pops

http://www.marthastewart.com/recipe/valentine-sandwich-cookie-pops