How Much Should You Sell Scones For? (2026 Pricing Guide)

A friend brought your cranberry orange scones to a book club, and now three people want a box for Sunday. One of them asked, "What do you charge?" You need a number to text back, and you want it to still feel right after the tenth order.

Most scone pricing advice says "price for handmade quality" and stops. That does not tell you whether $2 or $5 is right. This guide builds the number from prices checked the day it was written: what home vendors actually charge, what bakeries charge, what a batch costs in butter and flour, how long it takes, and what card fees take.

How Much Should You Sell Scones For?

Sell standard homemade scones for $3.50 each, $12 for a 4-pack, $16 for a half dozen and $30 for a dozen. Charge about 50 cents more a scone for glazed or filled flavors, and ask a coffee shop about $27 a dozen for wholesale. Those prices assume a standard wedge scone, about one sixth of a 6-inch round, with chips, fruit or zest mixed in.

Here is the ladder most part-time scone vendors can start from:

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The ladder is our recommendation, built from the Homegrown catalog pull of September 24, 2026 (middle price $2.99 a scone), six bakery order pages loaded the same day ($1.93 to $5.25 a scone), and the cost build further down, which uses Walmart.com supply prices from the same day.

Three things back that ladder:

• Home vendors already charge around it. Among Homegrown vendors whose listing states a count, the middle price is $2.99 a scone, and the most common pack is a 4-pack.
• Your supplies are small. A chocolate chip scone costs about 41 cents to make, and a half dozen in a window box with a label costs you $3.29.
• Your time pays at this price. Four dozen scones sold as half dozens at $16 pay you about $35 an hour after supplies and card fees, by our estimate of the hours.

If you are still working out flavors, freshness and where to sell at all, start with the companion guide on how to sell scones from home, which covers sweet and savory flavors, the freshness problem and the coffee pairing. Its pricing section tells you to know your cost and price for quality. This guide gives you the actual numbers.

What Do Home Vendors on Homegrown Charge for Scones?

On September 24, 2026, the middle price among 9 Homegrown vendors selling scones with a stated count was $2.99 a scone. Prices ran from $1.00 to $4.00 a scone at each vendor's lowest listed price. These are listing prices, not sales, but they are the prices a shopper sees next to yours.

The spread is wide, and it follows the pack size more than the flavor. Here is how real vendors set theirs:

• Seriously Sourdough sells a dozen fall scones for $12, or $1.00 a scone, and $15 a dozen for the frosted ones.
• Sunrise Breads, a cottage food producer in Moose Lake, Minnesota, sells 8 standard scones or 16 bite-size minis for $14.
• KairosGO sells sourdough scones in 4-packs for $7.99, about $2 a scone, in five flavors.
• Sweet Rise Bakehouse sells 8 scones for $17 in its classic flavor and $20 to $22 for glazed and filled ones.
• Farmstand on Shalimar Lane sells a 6 pack of chocolate chip sourdough scones for $18, and Flour & Thyme sells 4 sourdough maple pecan scones for $12. Both work out to $3.00 a scone.
• Pryority Sourdough charges $16 for a 4-pack of chocolate chip or strawberry scones and $17 for maple pecan or cinnamon chip, $4.00 to $4.25 a scone.

What Do Bakeries Charge for Scones?

On September 24, 2026, six bakeries that post scone prices online charged $1.93 to $5.25 a scone. The cheapest was an assorted dozen at a two-shop California bakery. The most expensive was a half dozen made with freshly milled flour in Washington. Three of the six charged more than $4 a scone.

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We loaded each bakery's own order page on September 24, 2026. Delivery fees are not included. Sugar Bee Sweets says its prices include tax.

What stands out once the prices sit side by side:

• Mount Bakery sells a half dozen scones for $31.50, baked with freshly milled flour from CairnSpring Mills, with three business days of prep time. That is $5.25 a scone for a story customers can repeat.
• Flat Rock Village Bakery sells its scones at $3.50 each, made with local cream, and asks for orders two days before pickup. That is the single price this guide suggests for a market table.
• Midway Bakery charges the same $4.99 a scone whether you buy one or six. If you sell both a single and a half dozen, give a small break on the box so a single buyer has a reason to take six.
• Reverie Baking Company charges $22 for a half dozen in seasonal fruit, lemon poppyseed and jalapeno cheddar, about $3.67 a scone.

These bakeries pay rent, staff and a licensed commercial kitchen. A home vendor does not carry those costs, which is why $2.67 to $3.50 a scone, below the middle of the bakery range, is a fair place for a home vendor to start.

What Does a Scone Cost You to Make?

A King Arthur chocolate chip scone costs about 41 cents to make, or $4.96 for a batch of 12, at Walmart.com prices on September 24, 2026. Without the chips, a plain vanilla scone costs about 25 cents. We used King Arthur Baking's own scone recipe, which makes two rounds, 6 inches across once you add chips or fruit (5 inches plain), each cut into 6 wedges, from 330 grams of flour, 113 grams of cold butter, 2 eggs and about two thirds of a cup of half-and-half.

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Supply prices are Walmart.com prices loaded September 24, 2026. Recipe amounts are King Arthur Baking's, loaded the same day; the chip amount uses 1 cup, the low end of King Arthur's 1 to 2 cups of add-ins. Totals are figured from unrounded prices, so a line can be a cent off the sum.

Then add packaging. A round of 6 wedges fits an 8-inch bakery box, which makes the half dozen the easiest box you will ever pack:

• A single in a small paper bag: 51 cents all in (41 cents of scone plus a 10-cent bag from a 100-pack at $10.00).
• A 4-pack in an 8-inch window box with a label: $2.46 (four scones at $1.65, a box at 73 cents from a 30-pack at $21.99, and a 7-cent round label from a 120-pack at $8.87).
• A half dozen in the same box: $3.29.
• A dozen in two boxes with two labels: $6.57.

These are figured from unrounded prices, so adding the rounded parts can land a cent away from the total.

Why Do Butter and Vanilla Drive Your Scone Cost?

In a plain King Arthur scone batch, vanilla and butter make up more than half of the $2.95 ingredient cost: 85 cents and 76 cents, or 29% and 26%. Flour, the thing a scone is mostly made of, costs 35 cents a batch. Once you add chocolate chips, the chips become the biggest line at $2.01, or 41% of the batch.

Where your scone cost actually moves:

• Add-ins. A cup of chocolate chips adds $2.01 a batch, about 17 cents a scone. Two cups, the top of King Arthur's range, adds about 34 cents. Dried fruit, nuts and white chocolate land in the same range, so price loaded scones from your own receipt.
• Vanilla. Two teaspoons of pure vanilla cost 85 cents from a $5.12 two-ounce bottle. The 4-ounce bottle at $9.76 cuts that to about 81 cents, and a flavor like orange zest can replace it entirely.
• Butter. One stick costs 76 cents at $3.06 a pound. Scones need it cold and in chunks, so there is no cheaper swap that keeps the texture.
• Cream instead of half-and-half. Heavy cream costs $4.74 for 32 ounces against $2.48 for half-and-half, so a cream scone costs a little more. The difference is about 40 cents a batch, or 3 cents a scone.
• Glaze. A simple powdered sugar glaze from a $1.98 two-pound bag costs pennies a scone. The real cost of a glaze is your time, which is why the glazed price in the ladder is higher.

The bigger lesson is that scone ingredients are cheap next to your price. Even if everything in a chocolate chip batch doubled, a scone would cost about 83 cents to make, and $2.67 in a half dozen would still cover it three times over. Your price is set by what your market pays and how much of your time each box takes.

How Long Does a Batch of Scones Take, and What Is Your Time Worth?

One person can mix, bake, box and hand off four dozen scones in about 2.75 hands-on hours by our estimate, including cleanup and pickups. King Arthur puts one batch of 12 at 10 minutes of prep and up to 23 minutes in the oven, plus a 30-minute rest in the freezer before baking. Four dozen means four batches, eight rounds and four sticks of cold butter.

• Mix four batches. Whisk the dry ingredients, work in cold butter until the mix is unevenly crumbly, add chips and the egg mixture. About 35 minutes, because cutting in butter does not scale as fast as stirring a batter.
• Shape and cut eight rounds. Pat each half batch into a 6-inch round, cut 6 wedges, brush with milk or half-and-half. About 20 minutes.
• Chill in the freezer. King Arthur freezes the shaped scones for 30 minutes so they rise higher. About 5 minutes of your hands to move the pans in and out.
• Bake four pans. Two rounds fit on a half sheet, so four dozen is four pans, baked two at a time at 425 degrees for 18 to 23 minutes. About 10 minutes of your hands.
• Cool, box and label. Let the scones cool completely, then fill 8 boxes, one round each. About 20 minutes.
• Clean up. Flour, butter and a pastry blender take longer to clean than a muffin bowl. About 30 minutes.
• Handle the orders. Confirm orders, answer messages and hand off pickups. About 45 minutes for 8 customers.

Add those up and you get about 165 hands-on minutes, or 2.75 hours. The times are our estimate for one experienced home baker with one oven and room in the freezer, not a measurement. Time your first two batches and put your own number into the math below.

Notice where the time goes. Handling orders is more than a quarter of the day, and it does not get faster when your wedges get neater. That is why the baked goods pricing formula counts messages and pickups as real labor, not a favor.

What Does a Half Dozen Scones Earn at $12 to $20?

At $16 a half dozen, four dozen scones sold as 8 half dozens earn about $95.60 after supplies and card fees, or about $34.76 for each of your 2.75 hours. At $12 the same batch earns $64.53, or $23.46 an hour. The work is identical at every price; only your pay changes.

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Card fee is Homegrown's 2.9% + $0.30 per order, checked on findhomegrown.com/signup on September 24, 2026, assuming one half dozen per order. Supplies are the chocolate chip batch and the boxed packaging above. The 2.75 hours is our estimate. Market booth fees and any storefront subscription are not included. Totals use unrounded numbers.

What to take from the table:

• $12 a half dozen ($2.00 a scone) is a hobby price. It pays $23.46 an hour, but only if every scone sells, and one stale half dozen takes $3.29 back out.
• $16 is the market price. It works out to $2.67 a scone, just under the $2.99 middle of Homegrown vendors, and it pays well enough that a few leftover wedges do not wipe out the day.
• Every $2 you add adds about $5.65 an hour. The card fee barely moves, so almost all of the extra goes to you.
• A dozen at $30 keeps $22.26 after $1.17 in card fees and $6.57 in supplies, about $32 an hour on a 4-dozen batch.

These numbers assume you sell everything you bake. With scones, that assumption is the one most likely to break, because a scone is at its best the day it is baked.

Should You Sell Scones as Singles, 4-Packs, Half Dozens or Dozens?

Make the half dozen your main pre-order size, keep a 4-pack for smaller households, and sell singles mostly at markets and coffee pairings. A half dozen is one round, one box, one label and one card fee. Singles carry the heaviest card fee and the most handling per scone.

Here is how to set each size:

• Single: $3.50. Good for a market table next to someone selling coffee. Keep a sign that says "Take home a whole round: 6 for $16."
• 4-pack: $12. The most common pack on Homegrown, and exactly what Flour & Thyme charges for 4 maple pecan scones.
• Half dozen: $16. Your everyday pre-order size and your best mix of margin and simplicity.
• Dozen: $30. $2.50 a scone, a small break that nudges brunch hosts and offices toward two rounds.
• Mixed half dozen: same price. Let customers pick 3 blueberry and 3 chocolate chip for $16 if you bake both that day. It costs you nothing extra to pack.

Bundling a scone with something else is the other way to lift a small order. A scone with a jar of jam, or two scones with a bag of loose leaf tea, turns a $3.50 sale into a gift. The guide to bundle pricing covers how to price a box like that without giving away your margin.

How Much More Should Glazed, Filled or Savory Scones Cost?

Charge about 50 cents more a scone for a glaze, a fruit filling or a loaded topping, so a $16 half dozen becomes $19. That is our recommendation, and it sits inside what Homegrown vendors already charge for the extra step. On September 24, 2026, three vendors charged more for a glazed, frosted or pricier flavor, and one of them listed plain and frosted versions of the same scone, so the premium can be measured.

What real vendors charge for the upgrade:

• Sweet Rise Bakehouse lists its classic 8-count at $17, blueberry lemon and orange glaze at $20, pumpkin with maple glaze at $21 and cinnamon apple with a maple cinnamon drizzle at $22. That is 38 to 63 cents more a scone.
• Seriously Sourdough charges $12 for a dozen pumpkin spice, apple cinnamon or cranberry orange scones and $15 for the frosted versions, 25 cents more a scone.
• Pryority Sourdough charges $16 for a 4-pack of chocolate chip and $17 for maple pecan or cinnamon chip, 25 cents more a scone for the pricier flavor, with no glaze on either.

Savory scones are different. Reverie Baking Company charges the same $22 half dozen for jalapeno cheddar as for lemon poppyseed, and Midway Bakery charges the same $4.99 for ham, cheddar and chive as for blueberry. Price savory scones from your own receipt. On Walmart.com on September 24, 2026, Great Value shredded sharp cheddar cost $1.97 for 8 ounces, or 24.6 cents an ounce, against 33.5 cents an ounce for the chocolate chips, and Great Value canned diced ham ran $5.74 a pound, about 36 cents an ounce. Check your state rules first, too: scones with meat or a cheese filling may need refrigeration, which can take them out of cottage food rules (more on that below).

How Should You Price Sourdough Scones?

Price sourdough scones like any other scone, about $3.50 for a single or $12 for a 4-pack. On Homegrown, sourdough scones are the norm, not a niche: 9 of the 13 scone listings in the September 24, 2026 catalog pull had "sourdough" in the name. Where the listing states a count, they sold for $2.00 to $4.25 a scone, inside the same range as the other scones.

What the sourdough scone vendors charge:

• KairosGO: $7.99 for 4, about $2.00 a scone, baked on Monday for Tuesday delivery.
• Bakery House: $2.99 for a single white chocolate chip apricot scone, and the same $2.99 for its blueberry Earl Grey scones, a listing that gives no count.
• Farmstand on Shalimar Lane: $18 for a 6 pack of chocolate chip, $3.00 a scone.
• Flour & Thyme: $12 for 4 maple pecan, $3.00 a scone.
• Pryority Sourdough: $16 to $17 for a 4-pack, $4.00 to $4.25 a scone.

Many sourdough scone recipes use discard, the starter you would otherwise throw away, so the ingredient cost barely changes. What sourdough changes is the story and the timing. A fermented dough can need an overnight rest, which adds a day to your schedule but not to your hands-on hours. If your customers already buy your bread, the sourdough pricing guide shows what loaves sell for, and a scone is an easy add-on to a bread order.

How Much Should Mini Scones Cost?

Price mini scones by the dough, not the piece: a dozen minis should cost about the same as a half dozen standard scones, $16, because they use the same round of dough. That is our recommendation. Minis take more cutting and more pan space, so they should not be cheaper per round than full-size wedges.

What we found:

• Sunrise Breads charges $14 for either 8 standard scones or 16 bite-size minis, so each mini is 88 cents and each standard scone is $1.75.
• Bakeries we checked did not list minis online, so there is no outside price to compare against.

Minis work well in three places: a tasting tray at the market, a baby shower or brunch order, and a tea party box where guests want to try three flavors. If you sell them, list the count and the size in the name, like "Mini Scones, 12 count, about 2 inches," so nobody expects a full wedge.

What Should You Charge a Coffee Shop for Wholesale Scones?

Charge a coffee shop about $27 a dozen, or $2.25 a scone, so the shop can sell each one for $4.50 and double its money. A coffee shop's other option is a frozen commercial scone. On Walmart.com on September 24, 2026, Pillsbury's 96-count cases of Freezer to Oven scones cost $159.30 to $195.13 depending on flavor, about $1.66 to $2.03 each, and 80 Davids blueberry scones cost $173.60, about $2.17 each. Your fresh scone at $2.25 costs the shop about 22 to 59 cents more than a frozen Pillsbury one, and nobody has to bake it.

How the wholesale numbers compare, per dozen, delivered on a reusable tray so there is no box cost (supplies $4.96 a dozen):

• $24 a dozen ($2.00 each): you keep $19.04 a dozen, about $27.69 an hour on a 4-dozen order. That lands inside the $1.66 to $2.03 a frozen Pillsbury scone costs the shop.
• $27 a dozen ($2.25 each): you keep $22.04 a dozen, about $32.06 an hour. The shop can sell at $4.50 each.
• $30 a dozen ($2.50 each): you keep $25.04 a dozen, about $36.42 an hour. The shop needs $5 a scone to double its money.

Those hourly figures use the same 2.75 hours as the retail batch, including 45 minutes of order handling, and they do not count delivery time. If the shop pays a Square invoice instead of a check, Square's 3.3% + 30 cents takes $1.19 from a $27 dozen.

A standing order changes the math more than the price does. Two dozen three mornings a week is 6 dozen sold before you turn on the oven, with none left over. The guide on setting wholesale prices for food products walks through the markup a shop needs. Before your first delivery, check whether your state allows cottage food sales to a business that resells them; some states do not.

How Do You Keep Unsold Scones From Eating Your Profit?

Bake to pre-orders, keep leftovers wrapped at room temperature for a day or two, and freeze anything you will not sell by then. A half dozen you throw away costs you $3.29 in supplies and about 21 minutes of your time, one eighth of the 2.75-hour batch, and it earns nothing. Scones are at their best the day they are baked, so waste hits them harder than most bakes.

What the storage guidance says:

• King Arthur Baking says to wrap completely cooled scones and store them at room temperature for up to several days, then warm them at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes under a loose foil tent.
• University of Missouri Extension's freezing guide does not list scones, but it gives baked biscuits, the closest thing it covers, 2 to 3 months in the freezer, and warns that frozen unbaked biscuits bake up smaller and less tender.
• Your customers will reheat if you tell them how. Put "Warm at 350 for 10 minutes" on the label and a day-two scone tastes close to fresh.

Pre-orders are the bigger fix. When customers pay before you bake, you know exactly how many rounds of blueberry and how many of chocolate chip to make, and you bake zero extra. That is the problem a Homegrown storefront solves for a scone vendor. It is $10 per month billed annually (or $12.50 billed monthly) with no percentage fees beyond standard payment processing, and it gives you one link where customers pick a 4-pack, a half dozen or a dozen, choose a flavor, pay, and see when to pick up. On Friday night you open your orders and see exactly how many rounds Saturday needs.

How that compares to what scone vendors usually use:

• Hotplate has no plan fee and you pay 2.9% + $0.30 processing, but your customer also pays 5% + $0.55 on top of your price, so a $16 half dozen costs them $17.35. For a regular who orders every weekend, that fee shows up every weekend.
• Square's Free plan has no subscription and charges you 3.3% + 30 cents on an online order. It is great for tapping cards at the market table.
• Texts and cash at pickup cost nothing, until a customer who asked for two dozen does not show and you are holding $13.14 in supplies and scones that will be stale by Monday.

What a Homegrown storefront does for a scone vendor:

• Pre-orders paid up front, so every round you cut is already sold.
• Flavor and size options on one listing, like Sweet Rise Bakehouse's classic at $17 and glazed and filled flavors at $20 to $22, each with its own price.
• Pickup days and windows you set, so customers arrive when the scones are an hour old, not a day old.
• Every order in one place with the customer's name, so you know who orders every Saturday.

What it does not do: it will not keep scones fresh past pickup, it has no timed drop or countdown release, and customers create a Homegrown account to place their first order. Your storefront is listed on the marketplace, but plan on most orders coming from people you send to your own link. The guide to taking pre-orders covers cutoff times and pickup windows in more detail. If knowing your exact round count before you cut the butter sounds better than guessing, you can set up your storefront and post this weekend's scone menu in an evening.

What Do Card Fees Take From a Half Dozen Scones?

Card fees take 57 to 83 cents from a $16 half dozen, depending on how the customer pays, and on one pre-order app the customer pays an extra $1.35 on top. That is small next to your price, but across 50 half dozens a month it runs $28.30 to $41.40, and it decides whether your customer pays an added fee at checkout.

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We checked these on each company's pricing page on September 24, 2026: findhomegrown.com/signup, hotplate.com/pricing and Square's pricing page for the Free plan. One half dozen per order is assumed. Fees on tips, taxes and delivery are left out. Totals use unrounded fees.

Three things matter more than the pennies:

• Who sees the fee. On Hotplate the customer pays 5% + $0.55 at checkout while you pay the 2.9% + $0.30 processing. On the others, the customer pays the price on your menu.
• Paying before you bake. Cash at pickup has no fee, but you buy the butter and chips before you know who shows up.
• Your volume. At 50 half dozens a month, Homegrown costs you $10 more than Hotplate in total ($12.50 on monthly billing) but keeps $67.50 in fees off your customers. At 10 half dozens, Homegrown's $10 is close to the $13.50 your customers would pay in Hotplate fees.

Can You Sell Take-and-Bake or Cream-Filled Scones From Home?

Plain baked scones are an allowed cottage food in most states, but frozen unbaked scone dough, cream-filled scones and scones with meat usually need refrigeration and may fall outside home kitchen rules. That matters for price. Sugar Bee Sweets sells frozen take-and-bake scones at $24 a half dozen and $48 a dozen, but it is a retail bakery with a shop in Arlington, Texas, and copying that product from home may not be legal where you live.

What to check before you put a price on a new scone:

• Is it baked and shelf-stable? Chocolate chip, blueberry, cranberry orange, lemon and maple glazed scones generally are.
• Does it need the fridge? Unbaked dough, clotted cream, cream cheese fillings and ham and cheddar scones may.
• Does your state cap cottage food sales? A yearly limit caps how many $16 half dozens you can sell.
• Can you sell wholesale? Some states allow cottage food sales only directly to the final customer, which rules out selling to a coffee shop at the wholesale price.
• Does your label list every allergen? Scones usually contain wheat, eggs and milk, and many contain nuts.

States vary more than most bakers expect. Tennessee shows how loose the rules can get: its Department of Agriculture says foods made under the Tennessee Food Freedom Act are generally exempt from the state's licensing, permitting, inspecting, packaging and labeling laws, except when the Department of Health is investigating a reported foodborne illness, and since July 1, 2025 the law also covers certain foods that need time and temperature control. Many states allow far less. The state-by-state basics are in the guide to whether it is legal to sell baked goods from home. Rules change and vary by state and county, so verify your state's current rules before you sell your first box.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much should I charge for a dozen scones?

Charge about $30 for a dozen standard homemade scones, or $2.50 a scone, and about $36 for a glazed or filled dozen. On September 24, 2026, Homegrown vendors listed a dozen fall scones at $12 and 8 scones at $14 to $22, while six bakeries with online prices charged the equivalent of $23.10 to $63 a dozen. A dozen is two full rounds, so it packs neatly into two boxes.

How much does it cost to make scones?

A batch of 12 King Arthur scones costs about $2.95 in ingredients for plain vanilla scones and $4.96 with a cup of chocolate chips, at Walmart.com prices on September 24, 2026. That is 25 to 41 cents a scone. Vanilla and butter are the biggest costs in a plain batch, and add-ins take over once you use them. A window box and label add about 81 cents per half dozen.

How much do homemade scones sell for?

Homemade scones on Homegrown sold for $1.00 to $4.00 a scone at each vendor's lowest listed price on September 24, 2026 (up to $4.25 for the priciest flavor), with a middle price of $2.99 across 9 vendors. The most common pack was 4 scones, priced from $7.99 to $17. At a farmers market, a single scone next to a coffee stand can go for $3.50, and a half dozen for about $16.

How much should I sell sourdough scones for?

Sell sourdough scones for about $3.50 for a single or $12 for a 4-pack, the same as other scones. On Homegrown on September 24, 2026, sourdough scones sold for $7.99 for 4 at KairosGO, $12 for 4 at Flour & Thyme, $18 for 6 at Farmstand on Shalimar Lane and $16 to $17 for 4 at Pryority Sourdough. Using starter discard keeps your ingredient cost close to a regular scone.

How much should I charge for scones at a bake sale?

Charge $1.50 to $2 a scone at a school or charity bake sale, and $3.50 at a farmers market where you are selling as a business. A bake sale runs on donated ingredients and volunteer time. If you buy the ingredients yourself, at about 41 cents a chocolate chip scone, even $1.50 raises more than a dollar a scone for the cause. Price every tray and keep one round number so the line moves.

Should I charge more for scones with clotted cream or jam?

Charge for jam as its own item, and skip clotted cream unless your state allows refrigerated foods from home. A small jar of jam next to your scones turns a single into a gift, and the jam pricing guide shows what a jar sells for. Clotted cream needs the fridge, so in many states it falls outside cottage food rules. If you sell scones with a tea pairing, the tea pricing guide covers what loose leaf tea sells for.

Related Reading

For the flavors, the pricing formula and taking pre-orders, read these next:

• How to Sell Scones From Home: the flavors that sell, the freshness problem and the coffee pairing
• How to Price Baked Goods: the formula behind any bakery price
• Muffin pricing guide: the same per-piece math for the other breakfast bake
• Sourdough bread pricing guide: loaf prices from real vendors, for bakers who sell scones next to bread
• Jam pricing guide: what to charge for the jar that goes with the scone
• How to Take Pre-Orders for Your Food Business: so every round you bake is already sold

The middle Homegrown price is about $3 a scone, and you keep that money when you bake only what is already sold. If a paid pre-order page for your half dozens sounds easier than a weekend of texts, you can start your Homegrown storefront and post this Saturday's scones tonight.