1. Chocolate Chip Cookies Comparison
Personal Finance cost comparison lab

2. Warm-Up
In your group, half your recipe- marking on the recipe copy found in your kitchens You may need to convert- ¼ cup needs to be turned into tablespoons to half it
Note- If you eat any raw cookie dough today you will get a ZERO.
Agenda
Read both recipes, figure out which you will cook first- get approved by teacher
You will bake 15 cookies of each, the pre-bought dough and the homemade. Extra dough will be formed into cookie sized drops, wrapped in plastic wrap and frozen for a special treat in May.
Set up your tasting plates, clean up – do not eat cookies until the teacher tells you!

3. Worksheet Directions
Using the chart on the next slide, figure out the cost per cookie for your homemade recipe and the cost per cookie for the two pre-bought dough options.
Answer the two questions at the bottom of your worksheet.
Turn in your worksheet at the end of class. (need extra time? It’s due at the start of class on Tuesday!)

4. To Figure Out Your Costs
Item
Cost
Qty in Package
Chocolate chips
$3.25
12 oz / 1.5 cups
butter
$3.39
32 Tbs
Salt
0.95
26 oz / 52 Tbs
Baking soda
$1.15
16 oz /32 Tbs
Baking powder
2.19
10 oz / 20 Tbs
Granulated sugar
$4.39
5 lbs / 11 ¼ cups
flour
$3.29
5 lbs/ 20 cups
Brown sugar
$1.29
16 oz / 1.5 cups packed
eggs
1.59 12
Shortening
3.97
105 Tbs
Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough - Scoop & Bake Chocolate Chip $5.59, makes 36 cookies
Pillsbury Cookie dough, $4.17, makes 29 cookies
Vanilla- .02 per tsp

5. Figuring Out Costs
Remember from your packet that you first figure out the cost per unit
Then you multiply times the number of units in your recipe
Add all the individual ingredient costs
Divide by the number of servings in the recipe
Cost of Pkg/ Qty in Pkg
$3.50 / 10 cups = .35 per cup
= Cost per unit
.35 x 4 cups = $1.40
used in recipe
$ = $4.50
$.4.50 /6= .75 per serving
75 cents per serving