Many a bake sales ago, my mother made turkish delight for me to bring to school. When she was finished, every counter in our kitchen was covered with icing sugar.  She then proudly presented me with a tupperware full of misshappened brown powdery bites to take to school the next day.

When I returned from school, mom asked how much her turkish delight sold for and was very disappointed to find out that they went for "25 cents".  We did not come from a culture of bake sales, and it was unfathomable that something so unique and time-consuming would have yielded so little.

For my kids' bake sale, I decided that simple was best and made Red Velvet Christmas Kiss Cookies. There are two recipes.  My first was infinitely more complicated than my second (just like everything else in life).  The first recipe was crisper, crunchier and the second more mellow and creamy.  The first recipe is shown below.

They were no turkish delight, but was easy to make and (for no other reason than inflation) sold for 75c. 

If your really zoom in, you can see my cookies on the pedestal.  And for 1/2 the cookies I used Kisses and 1/2 I used Christmas chocolate mints.  

I reminded my mom of her turkish delight caper more than 20 years ago and we both agreed that rice krispie squares was the way to go.  Keep it simple, silly.

And to this day, I have never encountered turkish delight at a school bake sale ever -- yet another way my mom has "made history".