Fete du Village

[Fi]

It is our village fete at the end of June and our school is selling cakes.  I have volunteered to bake some stuff (I really enjoy patisserie - my grandfather was a patissier - maybe it's genetic!) but would it be more fun/acceptable to make a mini pyramid of fairy cakes with pretty icing/crystallised flowers etc, or, would a couple of big cakes (e.g. white chocolate and orange,  lemon and almond, chocolate and chocolate with extra chocolate), or, maybe something terribly British like Bakewell Tart / Treacle Tart ??? 

I did ask what they would like the best, and I was told whatever I wanted to make.  The only choice on the sign up sheet was sale or sucre (sorry, no accents!).

Decisions, decisions ..... anyone got any thoughts?

Fi

[Scooby]

For our fete we don't buy desserts, instead all the 'girls' in the village bake.  (250 covers usually!!)  I've found that anything chocolate always goes first.  Last year I did a victoria sponge but filled it with whipped cream and fresh strawberries and that went down well.  For cake bakes in the UK I often do muffins as they are i) very quick and easy to make ii) they are easy for the servers to sell (no slicing / plates etc necessary) and iii) they make a good return compared to the cost of the ingedients.

[WJT]

Fi, not a big fan of Bakewell Tart or Treacle Tart but the other options sound wonderful. In fact you are ruining my diet by discussing such things!!

The one thing I adore is Carrot Cake with loads of nuts of course and I can never find them available in France anywhere. So if I were to come to your Fete and you had one (or a dozen), I would probably break down and buy the lot. [:D]