for those of you that make cookies by the dozens in one order... How many days do you need to make them. She orders today (Monday) wants 3 dozen done by Wednesday, with basketball image and stars (not the standard images I draw but close), and you have a full time job. Could you do it? or am I being wayyyyyy to lazy?
I had to turn another one down today because she wanted them by Wednesday. I think people believe I have a machine that just spits them out over night. Am I being lazy?
Need imput please. It stinks that I have to turn people away. I'm just wondering if I need to find a teenagers spring in my step so I can stay awake all night.
well honey I work also and recently started cookies, I am using mmf so I precut as soon as I get my order and store them in a sealed container. The I have started making my dough and freezing it so when I am ready to do the order I just pull from freezer ,cut,bake, and slap on the fondant, let cool then bag them and arrange in pots..
hth, Pearl
I don't think I could do more than 3 dozen due on the same day. I have yet to have an order like that, but I think you made a good decision. See how it goes with this order and then afterwards, decide if you could have done another 3 dozen and stayed sane!
I wouldn't be able to do it. If I baked the cookies on Monday, decorated on Tuesday, packaged on Wednesday...the customer would show up before I was done. Maybe you could get the baking and decorating done in one night, but I'd have to kill myself to do it. I'd just let the person know that the cookie icing has to set, and you need more time to produce a nice product. I once did a cake for someone who gave me a four hour notice...never again!
If I baked the cookies on Monday, decorated on Tuesday, packaged on Wednesday...the customer would show up before I was done
Gem, As I was talking to her on the phone that is exactly what I was thinking. But she needed them by 5 p.m. on Wednesday. I don't get off work until 4. I would have lost a day.
I've tried doing the freezing thing but my husband and kids eat it like icecream. Especially since I started using Penny's recipe. So I don't really trust anyone to stay OUT of it. (know what I mean? Don't know if someone has been in it...ewwww)
I told her I definetly couldn't do the RI since it took too long to dry. I told her I would try to get it done for her but it was one order I could not guarantee. Packaging not included.
The lady didn't make me feel guilty and she was excited to know that I would do it for her at supply cost only. (school kids) At the end of the conversation she apologized deeply for last minute notice and said she'd catch me earlier next time. Now if she was snippy like the last lady it wouldn't have bothered me but this one I thought the demand wasn't so great that I couldn't have done it and I remembered all of you that do big orders, and larger, in a matter of days.
I guess I need to find other short cuts that one day I can do them that quick and yes remain sane. LOL
I ask for atleast 3 day notice or I decline the order..unless I have dough & RBC already made up. I tell them I have a full time job and I have to have notice and hope they keep me in mind ahead of time for the next order. Most have called me back for orders..they do understand.
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