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> On Mar 24, 5:49�pm, " > wrote:
>> I make 8 dozen of these twice a year. �I take a few in to work. �I
>> leave a few out to eat on and I wrap and freeze the rest. �They
>> literally take all day to make. �That's why I only make them twice a
>> year. �The fillings are made from scratch too.
>>
>> http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/d...sh%20Pastries/
>
> Now that you've seen them, how much would you be willing to pay for
> them? A neighbor of mine has asked if I would make a few dozen for
> her for a family get together she's having next month. She's offered
> to pay for them but I want to come up with a price that's fair to both
> of us. They cost me an average of 33 cents a piece in ingredient
> costs. Not counting the actual baking time, it takes about 7 hours of
> actual work time to make 8 dozen pastries. Three of those hours are
> used to make the dough. So whether I make enough dough for 2 dozen or
> 8 dozen it's still going to take 3 hours to make the dough. The
> remaining hours are used to make the fruit fillings and for creating
> the individual pastries. A local bakery that's suppose to be one of
> the better bakeries sells a similar item for a dollar each. To be
> honest though I don't think they're all that great. The dough is just
> so so and the fillings taste artificial. The cherry tastes like cough
> syrup. Okay, maybe not actual cough syrup but it tastes like the
> cherry flavor that's used in cough syrup. I certainly wouldn't sell
> mine for less than a dollar each considering all the work that's
> involved but I'm wondering if I should go higher.


$15-$20 a dozen? For most homemade stuff like crafts the advisory has
usually been something like 3x the cost of the ingredients, but that
doesn't really address the amount of time you invest in the final product.

gloria p