Baking Commissions 2020

[ana]

ORDERS ARE OPEN

PROMOTION: Receive a free earl grey shortbread sample if you provide a receipt that you've donated to a BLM fund of any kind!
Resources can be found here.

This menu is just a sampling of my most popular cookies. Click to enlarge!

Shortbread: $10/plain (~2 doz), $15/flavored (~2 doz) + shipping



Snickerdoodles: $20/batch (3 doz) + shipping


Ginger Molasses: $20/batch (2.5 doz) + shipping


Peanut Butter: $25/batch (~4 doz) + shipping


Ricotta chip cookies: $20/batch (2 doz) + shipping


Espresso Brownie: $20/batch (2 doz) + shipping


Mexican Hot chocolate: $20/batch (2 doz) + shipping


Linzer Tarts: $25/batch (2 doz) + shipping


Press Cookies: $40/batch (usually ~60 tiny sandwiches) + shipping


Peanut Butter and Pumpkin Oat Dog Biscuits: $10/batch + shipping

These can be cut into whatever shape you like (I have hearts, stars, flowers, traditional dog bones, specialty shapes... whatever! Amount will vary depending on the size and shape you'd like for your pupper.

All shipping costs will vary by cookie type/weight. All prices were determined via raw cost + federal minimum wage for time spent baking, cleaning, packing, sending, and then cross-referenced with comparable products on Etsy.

Payments are accepted via PayPal or Venmo after your treats have shipped! You will receive a tracking number with the final total.

Contact options: comments to this post, PMs to this journal, cuddlebug, discord @ koutavi#1461

Any questions about ingredients/allergens/add ins/etc, pricing on custom orders of other types of cookies (oatmeal raisin, sugar cookies, macaroons, the list goes on!!!) or special requests: please let me know and I'll get back to you asap! I can flavor the shortbread with just about anything, like lemon or earl grey tea for example, or do them as thumbprints or dipped. Things like jams and chocolates and such can also be customized. You can absolutely freeze the drier cookies: shortbread, snickerdoodles, peanut butter freeze great. I've never tried freezing the ricotta chip or espresso brownie but those are moister cookies so might lose some texture, and you can't freeze the sandwiched cookies because of the jam.

Gluten free versions/requests will take an extra 3 days to allow the wheat flour in the air to settle, but this guarantees the treats safe for those with celiac's or gluten sensitivities.

For those who don’t know, I am a dogwalker/petsitter. This is a job that requires people to go to work and travel, and coronavirus concerns have seen my next several months’ worth of jobs cancelling for wfh and travel restrictions, so I am in financial trouble but also free to bake! Turnaround time should only be a few days, then shipping two to three.

Also re: coronavirus concerns: My household is not ill but to be extra safe I have been sterilizing my kitchen daily before baking (my mother the microbiologist gave tips) and not only constantly handwashing but wearing food service gloves while handling ingredients and packing orders so I can be sure not to touch anything else. But there is also no evidence of it being transmitted through food and mail services should be safe and continuing.

Thank you for your consideration!

Comments

[besainted]

Hey, Zee here! I've got an order for me and a few roommates :] I would love to grab one batch ooooof:

- Earl gray shortbread
- Ricotta chip
- Mexican hot chocolate
- Press cookies

The only allergies we have to work around are lemon (probably not gonna be an issue, though that does include citrus-stuff in general) and corn (which includes corn starch and corn syrup). I don't figure either one would come up, but just mentioning to be safe.

On a related note, our lemon-sensitive roommate is looking for a jam that doesn't involve any lemon in the pectin, is that something you think might be possible?

[ana]

Hey Zee!!

There is actually cornstarch in powdered sugar, which is what I use in the shortbread, but I can try making them with regular sugar!

I'm more concerned about the lemon sensitivity, as the raspberry and apricot jams I have for press cookies right now just say "fruit pectin" and I don't know what that's sourced from. Is it usually lemon, do you know?

Edit: also fyi, earl grey is bergamot, which is citrus.

[besainted]

Regular sugar works, and thank you very much! And the bergamot is fine, we can go ahead with that. And "fruit pectin" usually means either apple or lemon — it's fine in this case though, I'll just cordon off my press cookies from them.

So: everything should be good to go, regular sugar instead of powder for the shortbread, and we'll skip the jam for now.

[ana]

Awesome! Thank you so much.

Whenever you get a moment, PM me the address to send these -- west coast will be a flat rate box to save you dollars, so I can say now your total is 100 even. Press cookies take a little extra time but I should have these out middle of this week and accept payment once they're in the mail! You'll get pictures and a tracking number.

Also everything is packaged separately so don't worry about contamination. \o/

[besainted]

That sounds perfect, thank you! :]