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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a really odd post.  I have no problems with someone buying the cookies/baked goods at a bakery.  I love a good bakery as much as the next person.  But, to say makes such a broad, sweeping generalization that it's better to buy cookies at the bakery, is just wrong.  Sure, it's convenient and you sometimes get specialty cookies that aren't easy to make at home.  But, it's also more expensive and a lot of pleasure and rituals can surround the baking of cookies.

I just did a calculation of what a base sugar cookie recipe would cost me - less than $6 for a batch without chocolate chips.  You don't have to even use 'good butter'.  I didn't include the cost of using the oven because it's just pennies.  Nor did I include the cost of mortgage or utensils because those are sunk costs - I'd pay for them whether I made cookies or not.  I also didn't include the cost of my time because it wouldn't take me any longer to bake cookies than to run to the store to get them and I'm also avoiding the cost of gas.  [/quote]

^^PP here.  I calculated the costs using the prices on Costco's website.  I didn't include the cost of salt/soda because the amounts are so small and cheap.  I also use the imitation vanilla recommended by America's Test Kitchen and it's just as cheap.  It's only pennies that are missing from here and not worth wasting my time to calculate.
1.17	Eggs
0.20	flour 
1.67	sugar
2.25	butter
[b]5.28	Total[/b]
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Imitation vanilla? As if! [/quote]

I have more confidence in ATK than an anonymous DCUM poster
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/6229-vanilla-extract-vs-imitation-vanilla[/quote]

Gross.  Can’t believe you’d buy that and feed it to your family if you can afford real vanilla [/quote]

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