I am looking for some advice about pricing of holiday cookies. I have been asked to bake just a variety of cookies and a maybe a few simple candies. None of them will be iced. This is my first order of cookies. Any suggestions per dozen would be appreciated as I will be making a large amount of cookies for her. Also, how many cookies is on a tray of cookies? Thanks so much!!
I am looking for the same answer. I have had several people come to me asking for cookie platters and I have no idea where to begin with pricing.
Sorry I can't help you as it seems we are in the same boat, but I did notice this was your first post to CC and I wanted to welcome you! This is a friendly site (most of the time 
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I recently put together a Holiday Cake & Cookie flyer for the holidays and I priced a platter of cookies at $15 each. Each platter will consist of 1 dozen decorated christmas cookies wrapped in those holiday cookie bags. This may be on the cheap side but I ran this as a sale so I could drum up more customers. I hope this helps get you started.
I have a cookie platter in my photo's that I charge $85 for. It has an assortment of things that total 9 dozen items and then some chocolate covered pretzels. I thought I was out of control charging that much, but I sell it often.
Have you ever thought of selling them by the pound?
My MIL asked me to do 5 dozen iced cookies and some buckeyes for a Holiday event she throws every year and I had no idea what to charge. So....I went out to the website for the bakery she normally uses and found out what they charge. It works out that I will probably charge $1.15/cookie which is better than their cost of a $1.45/cookie. I'm still struggling on what to charge for the buckeyes but I'll come up with something. If you are not icing the cookies I would think you would charge less since all the work comes in the decorating part.
Good luck and Happy Holidays!
I've been making holiday cookie trays for several years now and generally charge by the pound. Even though some cookies are more labor intensive, or require more ingredients, charging by the pound covers much of the cost and labor. I charge $8 per lb., I also charge $20 delivery for large orders. I like the church kitchen rental, any others that have had success with that?
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