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01-26-2003, 11:03 AM
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 Going rate for cookies? What is the going rate for cookies these days? Do you price by the piece? Pound? Dozen?
__________________ At weddings, my Aunts would poke me in the ribs and cackle "You're next!". They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals. www.kyleskitchen.net  |
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01-26-2003, 12:15 PM
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| I just do a little catering, but I do provide cookies on occasion. I sell them by the piece (dozen), but once weighed them as I was making them and 9 out of 10 weighed 2 1/2 oz each. I suppose you could sell them either way. |
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01-26-2003, 03:39 PM
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| Interesting timing....I made pecan icebox cookies for a dinner last night....Theatre people eating at 8:30...anyway they had wanted cookies and truffles for dessert...the icebox were a hit and now people want to order them....I'm not crazy about it cus it is time consuming for the $...especially if it's for a few dozen. I charge PC clients $30 an hour I doubt if I'd clear that in an hour of making cookies. Much less deliverying them. If they are large cookies by the piece. If they are icebox by the pound and if they are meragines by the dz. too crazy for me. |
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01-27-2003, 04:49 PM
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| I ended up going with $8/dozen.
__________________ At weddings, my Aunts would poke me in the ribs and cackle "You're next!". They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals. www.kyleskitchen.net |
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02-01-2003, 01:47 AM
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| Kyle, I checked out some premium bakeries and found cookies going for $1.25 each and chocolate chip with ganauche or (Truffle sandwich cookies) going for $2.50 each. Cookies on sticks generate more $ anywhere from $3-5 each. |
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#6
02-01-2003, 05:17 AM
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| Thanks Julie. Mine weren't on sticks and contained no ganache  I think I could have gotten a little more, but am not unhappy with the $200 I put in my pocket!
__________________ At weddings, my Aunts would poke me in the ribs and cackle "You're next!". They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals. www.kyleskitchen.net Last edited by KyleW; 02-01-2003 at 05:21 AM. |
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02-01-2003, 06:00 AM
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| Only with my toes at this point
__________________ At weddings, my Aunts would poke me in the ribs and cackle "You're next!". They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals. www.kyleskitchen.net |
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#9
02-04-2003, 11:31 AM
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 Kyle!!!! GO FOR IT!!!!! 
__________________ "Muabet de Turko,kama de Grego i komer de Djidio", old sefardic proverb ( Three things worth in life: the gossip of the Turk , the bed of the Greek and the food of the Jew) |
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02-26-2003, 08:11 AM
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| Cookies are so expensive even here in the mid-west. 1-2 dollars a piece sometimes at the best bakeries. Quite frankly, after my usual Christmas baking with the very finest ingredients and the awesome time commitment, I think it is very fair. People who do not understand the handwork involved are often critical. I watched some real non-bakers demolish a platter of cookies in minutes that took hours to make. I do not know how you can make a profit with packages and delivery and rent and so on but nothing is better than finding a beautifully made and great tasting cookie. |
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