Dozens of baked goods litter tables of the Texas High Library as the sweet aroma of fresh treats fills the air and the warm fall decor illuminates the room. On Nov. 20, 2025 members of the Texas High Rosebuds Junior Garden Club hosted their annual bake sale. The bake sale represents the club’s efforts to provide for teachers and consistently raises the most money of the two yearly fundraisers. Each member gets to choose a home-baked item, selecting recipes that reflect their personal preferences, offering a wide variety of desserts for Texas High staff to purchase.
“I enjoy seeing members’ creativity,” Rosebuds sponsor Jennifer Guffey said. “I think that it brings an opportunity for members and their parents, grandparents [or] whoever a baker may be to have that time to work together [and] bond.”
With the opportunity to select their own recipe, some members choose to share family recipes with school faculty.
“I like that the idea has always been a homemade baked good versus just something that can easily be bought,” Guffey said. “[The Bake Sale] allows members to work with someone within their family to provide what is maybe a traditional baked item to staff, which I think can be symbolic.”
While some believe that Guffey and other Rosebuds sponsors organized the event, the designated event coordinator and committee members upheld the bulk of the work required to make the bake sale a success.
“Victoria Harmon, who is the Bake Sale chairman, has been instrumental in planning the entire thing,” Guffey said. “She’s done a phenomenal job of creating ideas, spreadsheets and [providing] volunteers the recipes.”
Planning the bake sale required extensive time, energy and organization, including the contact of outside businesses for services.
“With a lot of help from Mrs. Guffey, we do a lot [of] back and forth, and [get] help from different administrations,” junior Victoria Harmon said. “We have to book everything and get the boxes from Chick-fil-A and coffee from Starbucks and a bunch of different things.”
Since the event takes place just before Thanksgiving break, providing recipe cards for the baked goods helps spread the spirit of giving among the staff.
“[We like to] show appreciation toward our teachers,” senior Jlynn Dowden said. “Some teachers might need a dessert to have for Thanksgiving, and that’s just [a] way we can help with that.”
Baking comes with its trials and tribulations, but many Rosebuds enjoyed the learning experience.
“I like helping, preparing and serving stuff, but the best part for me has been actually baking,” Dowden said. “I’m not a baker, [and] I think that part has been super funny and interesting to try, mess up and do it again.”
Some members implement Rosebuds values of community into their baked goods, spending their preparation time baking with their friends.
“I’m baking some Funfetti cupcakes with Kateleigh [Crowson],” senior Nyreah Chatman said. “This is my first time working at the bake sale, and I am so excited to see how it goes.”
This event displays everyone’s creativity and teamwork to sell items, allowing bonds to be strengthened between members.
“[Bake Sale is] a way that we bond,” Dowden said. “We get closer to members in the club. We meet once a month, so we don’t really get to see everybody all the time. These events [make it] where we can work together and get to know each other a little bit more.”
