Decorated sugar cookies are the most mispriced thing in cottage food: fifty-eight cents of dough and royal icing per cookie, then four hours of outlining, flooding, and detail work per dozen — and a customer who saw a $15 dozen on Facebook. MadeKeeper puts your hours next to the materials so the $48 custom set quotes itself.
The app is live. Free during the pilot. Founding rate $19/mo, locked for life.
No card to start. Use it free through the pilot, and lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.
Say you bake and flood a dozen for a birthday:
At $48 the set keeps $41.06 — and the four hours of flooding and detail paid $10.27 each. That's the number that says no to the $20 haggler politely, and means it.
Sugar cookies with royal icing are classic cottage food in most states — MadeKeeper keeps the batch records, dates, and label information that cottage paperwork asks about; your state's allowed list and any icing-ingredient wrinkles stay yours to check.
Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
From your own history: the ledger holds each set's materials and hours, so 'detailed characters run $58 a dozen, simple shapes $40' comes from evidence. Quotes get faster and firmer at the same time.
The cracked ones and the color tests log as batch loss — real yield, honest math. A season of records will also show which designs break the most, which quietly reprices them.
Yes — kits (cookies, icing bags, sprinkles) and class seats run as their own products. Many decorators find the kits out-earn custom sets per hour, and the ledger will say whether that's true at your table.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.