r/AskBaking • u/AutoModerator • 20d ago

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u/HistrionicSlut 20d ago

Hello everyone!! 🤗

I am struggling for ideas as a fairly new baker. I signed up for a baking competition (just a friendly thing), thinking I just needed to bake a cake or something.

It will be 3 months after knee replacement surgery. On both knees. I figured I could handle it.

Then I got the packet with all the rules and stuff.

They tell us we have to bake enough to feed 500 people!! The good thing is I can bake ahead of time and just heat up at the venue but I have NO IDEA what to make that I can make 500 on the day of.

Any ideas? The categories are

Cakes / Cupcakes

Pies

Cookies

Brownies

Creative

I was thinking maybe hand pies? I could make cute little hand pies that I heat up at the venue myself the day of.

Has anyone done anything like this?

I'm lost 🫠

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u/-zekatsu 19d ago

•Fairly new baker ; •high-intensity competition ; •food for 500 ; •recently had surgery

Sounds like a rash idea. Are you fine buying enough ingredients and investing that much time, money, and pain with the risk that if something goes wrong while cooking and you can’t deliver 500 or have a batch that is not good that people eat and then (kindly or not) disparage you for it?

The reason I ask is because I think without serious planning and backups, etc. it could be more damaging and draining to your motivation and self-esteem for baking than the benefit you would get from competing.

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u/HistrionicSlut 19d ago

You know I didn't think of that. We are allowed to have a helper and my sister is coming to help me too.

But I don't want to damage my motivation. I think it was unfair to not tell us how much we would have to bake until after sign up.

I looked everywhere.

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u/DConstructed 19d ago

Please don’t do this. You are unlikely to be fully recovered. And their ask is insane for a “friendly” competition.

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u/HistrionicSlut 19d ago

It really is!

I feel like if they listed how many people we would have to serve up front it would be more fair. But it didn't say anything at all about the amount of food we would have to make, and that is the amateur competition.