Selling Christmas baking

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Rough estimate on the biscotti orders this season (Oct-Dec) was about 45-50 kg, mostly in 100 gm bags, so, about 450 packages. This was the first year I could work in a commercial kitchen, which presented a whole new set of logistical challenges.

Pricing will be revised for 2009 holiday season sales.

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Wow!!

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How did your baking go this year, Randi? And did you end up doing Christmas cakes?

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I did pretty well. I did better last year. I brought in $379.00, I probably spent 50 on ingredients I sold a lot of 12.00 pumpkin roulades. I need to raise my price on those next year, the profit margin wasnt very high. I only sold 1 xmas cake. I bought tons of candied fruit too( It will keep for next year). The recipe I used made 2 and I gave one to my Mother in law.

I didnt advertise fudge, but someone asked me if I could make some. I used Chefette's recipe( which I got from Kim Shook's recipe website). It came out really well. It made close to 3lbs and I sold it for 20.00. I used the cheap chocolate I got at Tomric( thanks Kerry).

We made tons of Jayme's caramel popcorn for gifts. Next year I'll sell it. Last year I sold a lot more of the buttercrunch that I made w/ Kerry. I have tons of that left this year. Maybe I'll advertise it again for Vday. I'll probably just skip that next year.

All in all, I'm pretty happy. I was able to make my cookie doughs early and freeze them. When it came time for ppl to pick up their baking, I baked off the cookies so they'd be fresh.