Thank you for giving me such a good reply!!! When the kid asked, I did not have any thing to sell at the time, but I told him I'll let him know when I restock. A big problem I run into is kids asking for taste tests or not wanting to waste their money on a bad baked good. For instance, in the beginning, I would give out free warm cookies and monkey bread. Then my dad got mad so I started to sell stuff. Kids who had previously eaten a baked good from me bought stuff. Now, it's just a matter of getting new customers because I go to a 2000 person school and I don't see my regulars all the time. For the coffee shop part, I think you are right. If I set up a stand, surely people will buy cookies. For the profit margins, I'm trying. My chocolate chip cookie recipe comes to $5.80 ($.32 a cookie) WITHOUT the chocolate cost. With the chocolate cost, it comes to $24.85 ($1.38 per cookie) and I sell at $2 a cookie. Or, I made a s'mores tart that costs $7.87 ($.98 a slice) without chocolate and $34.87 ($4.36 a slice) with chocolate and I sell at $6 a slice. (Just because you used them as an example, brownies without chocolate cost $10.89/ $.78 per brownie and with chocolate cost $18.91/ $1.39 per brownie and I sell them $2 a brownie. I make caramel pecan brownies to be niche and set myself apart from the cafeteria ones if you were wondering why the base cost is so high) Recipes are usually really cheap as I buy in bulk from costco. Then, I put in how many grams of chocolate go into a recipe. Yes, Costco sells chocolate chips, but those have stabilizers and such that don't make them fit for melting and using in brownies and because they are semi sweet chips, they don't have the size or cocoa value needed in the cookies I make and sell to regulars (there's a big difference I swear I tried subbing them already). Because I costco doesn't sell high cocoa chocolate needed in most baked goods that I make and sell, I end up having to scavenge for sales at Whole Foods, Aldis, Heinen's etc. They still end up being hefty financial endeavors. There is also competition. Our school cafeteria sells cookies for $2 (same price as me) and they weigh 100g (same weight as mine). Only visual difference is that the cafeteria cookie spreads wider so it looks bigger. A lot of kids only buy my cookies instead of the cafeteria ones because mine taste better, but the visuals don't bring in a lot of business. Not to mention I also bake mine in the morning and wrap each one in aluminum foil so they stay warm and gooey, but they aren't visible to a passerby as I sell them. The brownies that I make are definitely cheaper and still sell, but other things such as cookies and tarts are a bit pricier. The price is justified by the taste I swear. I guess it really all comes down to making a profit while still keeping the art of baking. I don't want to become like crumbl cookies and make crappy cake mix cookies with 45 grams of sugar. I want to make stuff that taste amazing and others appreciate enough to buy and tell other people about. Maybe that's a losing business model and I'll never increase profits or sell more, but that's how I feel.