I will probable wish I had said no to this one, but I thought it would be a good challange for me.
I need to do 200 to 250 ccokies with an insurance company red, white and blue shield and the name.
Best routs.
1. do I make them all round and draw with RI the police badge shaped shield? Should I try to find the shape or make stencil?
2. How long in advance can I bake, knowing it will take 2 days for RI to dry enough to stack?
3. With such a large amount, would you reduce, or increase price? Cookies are pretty cheep at Sam's Club. I don't want to over price, but want to be happy with $.
I have only done a couple cookie boq's, and with those you have to include $ to buy pots, styro and so on, so I really don't have a clue how much to charge.
TIA

200? 250? O'MY GOODNESS, and earlier I was complaining about 36 decorated in 3 days. LOL

If your client has an emblem of their company logo (badge) use it instead. You can make your cookie/fondant cutter from it. It might save you time.

Pricing, amount of baking time....sorry that is wayyyyyyy out of my league.

Not laughing at you but myself for definetly being tooo lazy.

You go Girl! keep us posted on how it comes out. I want to hear how things went for you.

Ohhh my God 200 to 250 cookies!!! I haven´t done more than 60 cookies but I would advice to Keep the Design Simple. I bake my cookies 4 to 5 days in advance. I´d charge the price you had in mind. It´s a lot of work. I haven´t tried Sam´s Cookies but I think that homemade decorated cookies have no comparison. Good luck!!!

Thanks so much. My DH says he will help So I'll let you know how it comes out. I'm worried more about how many mess ups I will more than likly eat! Can you say sugar coma?

Wow! That'll keep you really busy! Just curious..how much did you charge them for the cookies? I'm just starting my cookie hobby and still undecide how much should I charge to my customer.

Hi,
I'm just going to give a "ballpark" for whatever's it's worth. For 200-250 cookies I'd charge at least $100.00 +. I'd use a rolled buttercream - it's great to work with and do a simple blue/red decor on the white icing. Use a simple cutter like a star, round or square. Remember - "keep it simple" - that's my favorite slogan when decorating. They can be totally wonderful looking cookies if done in a clean, neat and simple design. I'd bake a week in advance and make the rolled b/c icing in advance as well. Stick the b/c on the cookies with a touch of Karo syrup then decorate. Much good luck on this project and glad your DH is assisting. Show pics if you can.

Stencil or printed edible image. Check costs for the edible image supplies before you quote prices.

I would charge a minimum of $1 a cookie, should be more and depends on the size of the cookies. Stencil, even if you have to make your own, would be the way to go.

When i have to do alot of cookies, i roll and cut all my cookies ahead of time. I also use fondant to cover my cookies, so i roll and cut that ahead of time, layer in plastic wrap and place in tupperwear until needed. IF you have the fondant rolled ahead of time then you can place it on the cookies when they are still warm it will just kindof adhere to the piece.

I would charge no less than $2.00 a cookie. That is a lot of work and you either have to wrap them individually or place them in a plastic bag and box them for delivery. I wouldn't go any less than that.

Kathy

i would definantly go no less than $2, you can also freeze the cookies before they are decorated for at least a week, they take no time to thaw out. i work at a bakery in a college town and we do at least 3000 iced a decorated cookies for sororities when rush rolls around, and we charge $2,
$2.50 for more complicated larger cookies

I have made 350 cookies for my cousin's wedding this past Sept. They were part of her gift. Some of them are posted in the few photos I have online so far.
Start a good week ahead. I kept some of my cookies frozen. I did them in batches. With varying colours I also decorated them in batches. No two were alike. I had premade their initial but I also had flowers, and then personalization for 1/3. I stored them in an under bed container in a plastic celophane bags once dry and complete.
Since you are having to make a logo copy in some form I would charge at least $5.00 per cookie. You can print other cookie favour prices off the internet to prove you are not crazy. And those cookies do not have specific logos on them that need to be recreated.
You will be tired but it is fun none the less. Be prepared to do nothing but cookies for a good 7 days. I had them drying all over the place.
Good luck.
Claire

I've not tried fondant on cookies, but sounds good, and the pics I looked at in your galleries were great! Do you use karo or royal icing to make the fondant stick?
TIA

Wow! That is a BIG order! I'd charge $3.00 a cookie. When calculating your price remember to include all of the wrapping bags, and boxes you'll be using as well is your ingredients and time.
Jacqui

I had a cookie order for 400 around christmas for this breakfast with santa thing
they were sugar cookies cut like gingerbread men and piped royal outline, face and buttons
the company offered me to do them for $1 per cookie
I thought it was worth it
btu I did't do the fondant and the extra work
It took me about 5 days to get them totally done

Y'all....check out how many cookies I did for Valentine's day in my gallery...I did 99.5 DOZEN cookies!! Valentines day was on Tuesday, I think, and I started baking the cookies on Saturday and thought I was going to turn into a cookie before I got them all done!!

Candy120, You are a cookie machine! I never thought about using BC. I assumed when stacking it would smeer. I've always used RI on cookies. Well I am doing a test run today, for the shape and color. So I'll try the BC, RI and fondant and see which I can do most efficiently and tasty.
I'll let you know my take.
Shelly

i posted earlier about doing three thousand cookies for rush here at the local college, seriously, 3000, we use BC as well and as long as you let them dry a while they are fine to me

I recently did an order for 275 wedding cake shaped cookies. I baked all of them in one day (6 cookies on 1 pan, 2 pans in oven, started off with 10mins on timer, switched racks and baked for 5 mins - used NFSC) and froze them. This was about a month before the order. Then the weekend before I started decorating 24 at a time, it didn't seem like such a large order this way, let them dry for one day and bagged them. The cookies will stay good for 2 weeks in an airtight bag. I charged $22 per dozen and it was NOT worth it. It was more work than the wedding cake I did yesterday and charged over $700 for.

Get an assembly line going and you'll do fine. Also, the fondant will save you LOTS of time and make them look really nice.

Well here they are, well, most of them I del. 4 doz already. What I learned.
1. freezing no fail cookies---works fine and saved my hide!
2. PaulaT Your right on with, "keep it simple" I was going to make more details, glad I didn't make the extra details on her trial cookies! SIMPLY IS GOOD!
3. $7.50 a doz is not enough for 3 inch custom cookies!
4. I will only make 5 doz cookies at a time unless I'm not working!
5. Carpal tunnel is not my friend and it hates it when I do this many cookies!
6. It is especially hard to grip and play softball after decorating this many cookies!
Thanks for all the help.
p.s. I guess I forgot to put the camera on the lowest res. for the cc pic cause it wouldn't attach
sorry

Yeah! Doesn't it feel good to be done?? I'm in the middle of a 9 dozen order. I'm eating, sleeping, dreaming cookies!! So I've always been afraid to do it...you seriously can bake a NFSC and freeze it- no problem???