Publix Cookies and Cookie Cakes in One Price List
More than 226 million chocolate chip cookies came out of Publix bakeries over the past year, Publix said in July, each with about 48 to 50 chocolate chips.
Publix cookies start at $5.99 for two dozen at Publix’s Southgate Shopping Center store in Lakeland, Florida (#1270), the store whose publix.com prices we quote.
The newer Decadent cookies cost $6.49 a pair, and a 12-inch cookie cake for 10 starts at $24.99. Anything you order online needs a day’s notice.
Classic cookies by the box
The everyday bakery cookies come in four boxes to order ahead on publix.com, each baked fresh daily, according to Publix. Three of them hold two dozen for $5.99.
| Box | Price | Calories each |
|---|---|---|
| Chocolate chip, two dozen | $5.99 | 90 |
| Sugar, two dozen | $5.99 | 80 |
| Assorted sugar and chocolate chip, two dozen | $5.99 | 90 |
| Chocolate chip, 13 count | $6.99 | 160 |
Prices vary by store, and the calories come from each box’s nutrition label.
The 13-count is a baker’s dozen of bigger cookies, 34 grams each against 19 in the box of 24. Worked out from the labels, 13 big cookies weigh 442 grams and 24 small ones 456, so the big ones cost $1 more for a little less cookie.
They aren’t the same recipe either. The two-dozen box lists chocolate chips first and uses margarine, while the 13-count lists brown sugar first and adds butter.
Publix’s post for National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day also counted about 37.5 million free cookies a year for children, and our bakery page explains the free cookie Publix gives kids.
Decadent cookies sold in pairs
Publix announced its Decadent cookies on March 10, 2026, with four flavors and a promise of more by summer. The Lakeland store now lists six at $6.49 a pair, about $3.25 a cookie.
- Vanilla Celebration, a cream cheese cookie with buttercream and confetti sprinkles
- Double Chocolate, a chocolate cookies and cream base with fudge icing and chocolate crispies
- Double Cookies and Cream, the same base with cookies and cream mousse
- Raspberry Cream Cheese, a cream cheese cookie with raspberry and cream cheese icing
- S’mores, a chocolate cookie with marshmallow icing and graham cracker crumble
- Caramel Pecan, a chocolate cookie with caramel buttercream and toasted pecans
S’mores arrived in June and Caramel Pecan in September, according to The Takeout’s monthly roundups of new Publix items. A four-count box of the original four costs $12.99, a penny more than two pairs.
The four original flavors carry 530 to 580 calories a cookie, about as much as six boxed chocolate chip cookies. Raspberry Cream Cheese and Double Chocolate each hold more than a day’s added sugar, 106 and 104 percent of the daily value.
Caramel Pecan’s label splits each cookie into six servings of 120 calories, or 720 a cookie, and lists pecans among its allergens.
The Takeout called the line Publix’s take on Crumbl in August, quoting a Reddit shopper who found them “good but not $7 good” and a bakery employee who said the dough is cream cheese based.
Each Decadent cookie costs 13 times what a boxed one does. By weight the gap is far smaller, $2.11 to $2.37 per 100 grams against $1.31 for the box. We’d buy a pair as dessert for two, never as party food. The same $6.49 buys a mini key lime pie, which Publix labels as three servings.
Cookie platters on the catering menu
Publix’s catering menu lists five cookie platters for the Lakeland store, each ready the day after you order. The Assorted Cookie Platter mixes sugar, peanut butter, chocolate chip and oatmeal raisin cookies, 48 for about 18 people at $24.99 or 96 for about 28 at $29.99.
Skip the medium. Two boxes of the assorted two dozen give you 48 sugar and chocolate chip cookies for $11.98, and the large platter doubles the count for $5 more, about 31 cents a cookie.
The Gourmet Cookie Bite Platter of Calypso Crunch, Chunky Chocolate Chipper and macadamia bites costs $21.99 for about 18 or $38.99 for 96 bites and about 28, and it contains peanuts and tree nuts. A sugar and chocolate chip platter feeds 20 to 25 for $18.99.
A 58-piece Sprinkle Cupcake Cookie Platter serves 30 to 35 for $35.99, and a 20-cookie vegan platter serves 10 to 15 for $17.99. The bakery’s Mini Yo-Yo Cookie Platter of buttercream-filled cookies, which isn’t on the catering menu, starts at $12.99 for about 10.
Several platters list pieces as well as servings, and our count of how far Publix dessert platters stretch sets those numbers side by side.
Cookie cake sizes and designs
A Publix cookie cake is one big chocolate chip cookie baked as a round. The Decorated Cookie Cake, the one you design, costs $24.99 for a 12-inch round that serves 10, $34.99 for a 14-inch for 16 and $41.99 for a 16-inch for 20.
You pick a buttercream or fudge border, balloons, mums, roses or sunflowers in 10 colors, and a message of up to 50 characters. Publix’s description promises four sizes, but the builder offers three.
Worked out by area, the 16-inch is the better buy. It covers about 201 square inches to the 12-inch’s 113, so you get 78 percent more cookie for 68 percent more money, while the 14-inch adds 36 percent for 40 percent more.
Fourteen ready-made designs, from Birthday Balloons to Sweet Graduate, cost $24.99 for the 12-inch size, and only the message changes. The message cookies are 9-inch rounds for 8, $13.99 for most of their 28 designs.
A cookie cake tops out at 20 servings, so for a bigger party, look at the sheet cakes Publix decorates instead.
Cost per guest at a party
Divide each price by Publix’s own serving count and the plain box costs a quarter a guest, against $2.50 for a 12-inch cookie cake.
The shares aren’t equal, since Publix counts one 19-gram boxed cookie as a serving, and we used the lower count of 20 for the sugar and chocolate chip platter. A cookie cake earns its price when the message on top is the point.
Thanksgiving and Christmas cookie cakes
Six of the 14 designs are for holidays, and four fit the next two months at $24.99 for 10. Gobble up the Cake has a buttercream turkey, and Fall Floral Arrangement has buttercream blooms trimmed in yellow frosting.
For December, Christmas Lights Celebration is iced white with piped Christmas lights, and Gingerbread Man comes with fudge and buttercream rosettes. Message cookies cover Fall, Chanukah, Santa Hat, Christmas and New Year’s at $13.99.
Publix stores close on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day, so pick up a holiday cookie cake the day before. Our calendar of holiday closings and early closes has the hours around both.
Can you get a cookie cake today?
You can’t order one online for today, because every cookie cake, platter and box on publix.com needs a day’s notice. Each product page says to call your Publix store if you need it sooner.
Publix’s site also lists two shelf items for the Lakeland store, a ready-made 12-inch Everyday Chocolate Chip Party Message Cookie Cake and two-packs of cookie cake slices at 330 calories a slice. Neither shows an online price, so ask the bakery what’s in the case.
Set your store on publix.com before you order, since the prices it shows are that store’s.
Every Publix bakery page carries an advisory that the department uses eggs, fish, milk, peanuts, soy, tree nuts, wheat and sesame, so any cookie may have touched them. The vegan platter’s page adds that vegan products share equipment with non-vegan ones.
