09/14/2026
I saw this in a Facebook group I'm in and I just had to share. Please keep all of this in mind when you're shopping small. You're getting so much more than "just cookies".
Y’all see a dozen custom cookies and start doing grocery-store math. 😭😂
“$75?! 😳 I can buy cookies at Walmart for $5!”
Okayyy bestie. 🥰😂
Go get those $5 cookies!
But please don’t compare a mass-produced package of cookies sitting on a store shelf to custom cookies made specifically for YOUR event. 🫶🏼
Because baby… that math ain’t mathing. 😂
You’re not paying $75 for “just cookies.”
You’re paying for:
✨ Ingredients
✨ Butter, flour, sugar & everything in between
✨ Royal icing supplies
✨ Custom cookie cutters
✨ Food-safe packaging
✨ Boxes & materials
✨ Equipment
✨ The design process
✨ Mixing and coloring icing
✨ Rolling & cutting every cookie
✨ Baking every batch
✨ Decorating every single cookie BY HAND
✨ Drying time
✨ Packaging
✨ My time
✨ My labor
✨ My creativity
✨ My experience
✨ And all the love that goes into making them 🥹🍪
You send me a theme, a picture, or an idea and say,
“Can you make these?”
And then I turn that idea into an actual edible work of art. 😂🩷
There’s designing.
There’s baking.
There’s icing.
There’s decorating.
There’s fixing the cookie that decided to crack at the worst possible time. 😭😂
There’s cleaning.
There’s packaging.
There’s messaging back and forth.
And somehow the price is the part that gets questioned. 😭
Meanwhile, nobody questions spending $7 on a coffee that’s gone before they even leave the parking lot. 💀😂
I’m not trying to compete with grocery-store cookies.
I’m creating custom cookies made specifically for you—your birthday, your baby shower, your graduation, your wedding, your holiday, your favorite theme, your special moment. 🥹🍪✨
I know what my ingredients and supplies cost.
I know how many hours go into each order.
I know how much work goes into making them.
And I know the value of my time and my craft.
So if custom cookies aren’t in your budget, that’s completely okay. ❤️
But please remember: small businesses aren’t charging just for the product. We’re charging for everything that goes into creating it.
And to my Cookie Crew who orders, shares my posts, recommends me, tags me, sends people my way, and supports my little kitchen-table business…
I SEE YOU. 🥹🩷
Every order means more than you probably realize.
Thank you for letting me be a tiny part of your celebrations. 🍪🫶🏼
Support small. Support local. Support handmade.
And please remember… behind every small business is a real person doing their best. ❤️
