I have to make 200 gingerbread men for an annual program at my high school called the Christmas Difference, which is a big Christmas celebration we have for the less fortunate kids in our county. There's pictures with Santa, picture frame making, a few other things, and a station where you decorate your own gingerbread men. So I need help because I've never made ginger bread men. THIS IS WHAT I NEED: A good recipe that won't make super hard and crunchy cookies, the yield (preferably large) & any tips on making them, cause this is my first time. I'm thinking of renting a commercial kitchen to save electricity in my parents home. ALSO- how much should i charge? I was thinking $100 but i dunno yet.
-Thanks <3
a $100 for 200 cookies?! that's .50 a cookie. Will that cover your cost? Anyway, what noticed about gingerbread cookies, they tend to be real crispy if you roll them too thin. If you roll them a little thicker like a 1/4" (I'm guesstimating here) you should have a firm enough cookie that holds it shape, but not crispy. I love gingerbread men cookies and it is Christmas time! 
im just always afraid of over charging. what would you suggest?
An average cookie goes for $3.00. I know another person on here, who I believe does a lot of cookies say that a base price for a cookie is a $1 per inch with additional cost for design. And never, ever, ever, ever,ever...ever,ever,ever...dod I mention ever be afrid of overcharging. Figure out your cost, get your pricing together (and some of those cost are your electriciyt, gas, cause you got to go to the store, your phone, etc.,etc., and MOST importantly, yet always overlooked, you labor cost. Yup, don't you want to get paid. So as you can see your cost IS NOT just your ingredients) and price appropiately. I notice that peopel who tend to be concerned about over charging, tend to be the ones that seriously undercharge.
wow. Do I know how to go back & forth from topics or what?!
This recipe for gingerbread cookies is SOOOOO good. Normally I don't like g. cookies, they're crispy and the flavor is just uninteresting to me. These cookies remain soft and have the most amazing flavor! However, I do follow the user suggestions to double the spices and triple the ginger. People will LOVE them. Normally I don't eat it if it ain't chocolate, but I cannot keep my hands off of these 
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Gingerbread-Snowflakes-107445
I'm a little confused. Are these cookies for the kids, or is this a fundraiser FOR the kids?
This recipe for gingerbread cookies is SOOOOO good. Normally I don't like g. cookies, they're crispy and the flavor is just uninteresting to me. These cookies remain soft and have the most amazing flavor! However, I do follow the user suggestions to double the spices and triple the ginger. People will LOVE them. Normally I don't eat it if it ain't chocolate, but I cannot keep my hands off of these
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Gingerbread-Snowflakes-107445
Have you frozen these before? I was thinking about either baking and freezing, or cutting out and freezing some gingerbread cookies. I quite often cut out and freeze cookies, but I didn't know if gingerbread would be a problem.
Gingerbread freezes just fine, but the beauty of gingerbread is that it has so many spices that it doesnt go stale, thats why it was so popluar wayyyy back. I make dozens of gingerbread cookies every year to hang on our christmas tree starting right after Thanksgiving, they stay on the tree right until Christmas and my family eats them right off the tree all season. Gingerbread can be baked less for a softer cookie or longer for a harder cookie. I usually agree with the $ per inch for a sugar cookie, but gingerbread is more expensive to make than a sugar cookie due to all the molasses, cinnamon, cloves, ginger etc. I would price out a batch before I quoted. At Santa's Village-an amusement park we go to they sell really big (5-6" I'd say) gingerbread men-undecorated so the kids can decorate them- and they are $5each.
. As a matter of fact I might try it myself, I'm already starting to panic about holiday baking 
. Thanks!
I'm either ahead or behind, never on time. I'm going for ahead this year!
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