Hi...what does everyone charge for a 3-inch cookie, iced in royal, monogrammed with beading around it?

I told a person 3.00/cookie, and she felt that was too much. I just figured It would have to be worth my while to do 6 dozen of them.

What do you charge for your highly decorated cookies?

Thanks!
Ellen

Anyone????

Yours is a more than fair price for all the work involved.

People do not understand how much work goes into decorating a cookie-it's only a cookie!!!!!!! 3.00 is more than fair.
Check out this website-their cookies are 6.25 each!

http://bundlesofcookies.com/shop.html

Sandra

I agree that that is definitely a fair price. Sometimes things that appear "smaller" take much more time. On many wedding favor sites, decorated cookies are $5, $6, or more each.

Southerncake

I typically charge $1 per inch. Just steer that woman to a bakery and she'll see she's getting a bargain!

Where I live I charge $2.50 for a 3" cookie. I would charge $3.50 for a 4" cookie. Most of the websites mentioned above usually make 4" cookies, albeit their prices are still ridiculous.

If you think about it though, 6 dozen cookies is a very large order that's over $200 for cookies. Depending on how much they are spending on the cake, that might bust their budget.

How about a plain cookie, with the monogram by itself? Still elegent, but not nearly as much work and time involved. You can even paint the monogram with luster dust. Just a thought...

I guess the part about it that steered me into the price was the amount of time and effort it would have taken this week. It was a last minute request, and I already have an enormously busy schedule. It had to be really worth it. If I were to charge 1.00/cookie, I might as well work for minimum wage, because that is what it would average. NOnetheless, the price is still lower than the cookies by design price. They charge around 4 or 5 dollars a cookie. I am more a cake person than a cookie person anyway. I don't do cookies for this exact reason. I know that people won't pay you for the amount of work that goes into it to make the cookies look right.

Ellen, girl, I am right there with ya!!! I feel your pain! People don't want to pay that, so I don't advertise them as much. The flower cookies I just posted I charged $1.75 each and she ordered 40, so that was $70 just in cookies, not to mention the horsey cake. Customers don't realize how much work and time goes into cookies - they just like the end results!!!

If she is wary of the price you gave her, why don't you let her have an alternative cost-saving/less labour-intensive design for the monograms....like Martha Stewart does here:

That's exactly what I was trying to describe antonia! Thanks!

oh yeah! sorry Izzybee, I'm half asleep this afternoon!

Helen, how exactly is that monogram done? I'm terrible at doing letters, mine look like my 6-yr old did them. Is it freehand?
I just love your cookies - you're so great at them. Hope you can advise.
Marina