We decided at the last minute to make a bunch of Valentine's chocolates and sell them. It was a good chance to try out some of the things we'd learned about pricing, marketing, economies of scale, and so forth! Daisy made a flier and we just advertised them on our little neighborhood ladies GroupMe, and we thought we might get a pity order or two. We were okay with that, knowing we'd have no trouble eating them ourselves! But we ended up selling twenty-six boxes (four chocolates to a box)! We were surprised and pleased! Subtracting our costs and the amount of time it took, the earnings of the four kids who helped were…let's see…about $3.28 per hour. $13 each. Ha! Well, so it's not going to make us rich anytime soon. But we did use the money we made to do something fun together!
And it was fun making the chocolates, anyway. We pride ourselves on them being really good. As good as any we've had from professionals. We hope our customers were pleasantly surprised.
Our cost/pricing sheet…the girls did all these calculations to figure out our costs.
Caramels drying
Daisy made a tiny chocolate, of course
We made caramels (semi-sweet and milk, salted and unsalted) as well as orange cremes and raspberry cremes. The raspberries were particularly good this year (I think the freeze-dried raspberries we used were fresher than last year's). But really, they were all good. Caramels are always my favorite. We boxed them up in these cute little boxes, and put our homemade stickers on top. They looked really nice!
This was a fun project and I think we might do it again next year! We'll see!
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