Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe With Cost per Serving

When making a batch of cookies, or anything else, I always wonder about the cost per serving.  Here's a simple recipe and below you will find the cost.

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup (2 sticks) butter or margarine, softened
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• 12 oz Chocolate Chips
• Directions
• PREHEAT oven to 375° F.
• Combine the dry ingredients, such as flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl. In a separate bowl, beat butter, granulated sugar, brown sugar and vanilla extract until creamy. Add the eggs, beating well after each is added. Blend in the dry ingredients gradually.  Then, using a spoon, make small drops of cookie dough on a baking sheet. 
• Bake for 9 to 11 minutes, until the edges brown. Use a baking rack to cool for several minutes.
• How much does this recipe cost per serving?
• First, it should make about 3 dozen cookies.  Let's say a serving is three cookies.  Then, we have 12 servings.
• Second, we need to tally the cost of the ingredients.  The store brand flour cost $1.87 for 5 pounds.  We'll round up to $2.  Since there are 3 1/3 cups per pound, this recipe calls for $0.27 worth of flour at this price.  Yes, that's 27 cents. 
• Walmart sells 16 oz of store brand baking soda for 54 cents.  According to an online calculator, there are 6 teaspoons of baking soda per ounce.  So, this teaspoon of baking soda costs half a penny.  We'll round up to 1 penny.
• A well-know store has Morton's salt priced at 93 cents for 26 ounces. This puts the price of a teaspoon at less than 1 penny.  For these purposes, we'll also round up to one penny.
• For margarine or butter, you can usually pick up a package for about $1.21.  So, two sticks should cost you about $0.60.
• Sugar costs about $2.50 for 4 pounds.  There are about 2 cups of sugar per pound.  So, 3/4 of a cup is equal to less than 23 cents worth of sugar.  We'll round up to 24 cents.
• Two pounds of brown sugar can be purchased for $2.00.   There are about 2 1/4 cups of brown sugar in a pound.  This puts the cost at about 33 cents.
• Imitation vanilla flavoring costs about $1.50 for two ounces.  A teaspoon costs about 13 cents.
• One dozen eggs costs about $1.20.  So, two eggs will cost you about 20 cents.
• 12 ounces of name brand chocolate chips go for about $2.50.  This brings the grand total for a batch of 36 cookies to $4.29 and the cost per serving is about 35 cents.