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Texas Cookies Cottage Food Labels

Texas's required disclosure statement added automatically. Ingredient lists for cookies built from Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Ghirardelli and more.

Here's What Your Label Will Look Like

Add the cookies products you use, and Quickly Cottage builds the ingredient list, detects allergens, and adds Texas's required disclosure automatically.

Product

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels Nestlé Toll House
All-Purpose Flour King Arthur
Brown Sugar Domino
Pure Vanilla Extract McCormick

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Sunflower Home Bakery

412 Maple Ave, Springfield, TX

Ingredients:

Unbleached Hard Red Wheat Flour, Enzyme, Sugar, Molasses, Semi-Sweet Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor), Butter (Cream, Salt), Eggs, Water, Alcohol, Vanilla Bean Extractives, Salt.

Contains:

Wheat Milk Eggs Soy

THIS PRODUCT WAS PRODUCED IN A PRIVATE RESIDENCE AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENTAL LICENSING OR INSPECTION.

What Every Texas Label Needs

Every cottage food product sold in Texas, including cookies, needs a label with the following.

  • All 9 FDA major allergens present
  • Complete ingredient list, in descending order by weight
  • Business name
  • Business address
  • Product name
  • "Not inspected" disclosure statement

Required Label Disclosure

THIS PRODUCT WAS PRODUCED IN A PRIVATE RESIDENCE AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENTAL LICENSING OR INSPECTION.

Added to every cookies label automatically, exactly as required.

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Common Allergens in Cookies

These are the FDA major allergens most often found in cookies — the exact list depends on the specific brands and ingredients you use.

  • Wheat
  • Milk
  • Eggs
  • Soy

Quickly Cottage detects all 9 FDA major allergens automatically from your ingredient list, not just these common ones.

Where You Can Sell in Texas

Texas permits cottage food sales at the following venues.

Direct from your home

Farmers markets

Online sales

Mail

Wholesale (non-TCS)

Annual Sales Cap

$150,000

Gross annual revenue. SB 541 (effective Sept 1, 2025) tripled the cap from $50,000 to $150,000 and indexed it to inflation.

Permit & Registration

No permit or registration required

No permit, license, or inspection is required. You can start selling immediately.

Frequently asked questions

What goes on a cookies label in Texas?

A Texas cookies label needs the product name, a complete ingredient list in descending order by weight, all FDA major allergens present, net weight, your business name and address, and Texas's required disclosure: "THIS PRODUCT WAS PRODUCED IN A PRIVATE RESIDENCE AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENTAL LICENSING OR INSPECTION." Quickly Cottage builds all of this automatically.

What allergens are common in cookies?

Cookies typically contain: Wheat, Milk, Eggs, and Soy. Quickly Cottage detects these automatically from the specific ingredients and brands you use.

Do I need to list sub-ingredients from a packaged mix on my Texas cookies label?

Yes. This is an FDA labeling rule that applies in Texas and every other state. If you use a branded cake mix, frosting, or coating, its sub-ingredients must appear on your label. Quickly Cottage expands these automatically.

What is Texas's required disclosure statement for cottage food labels?

Texas requires this exact language on every cottage food label: "THIS PRODUCT WAS PRODUCED IN A PRIVATE RESIDENCE AND IS NOT SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENTAL LICENSING OR INSPECTION." Quickly Cottage adds it automatically to every cookies label.

Can I sell cookies at a Texas farmers market?

Yes — Texas's cottage food law permits sales at farmers markets. Your label still needs to meet all Texas requirements, including the disclosure statement.

What is the annual cottage food sales cap in Texas?

Texas's cottage food annual sales cap is: $150,000 gross revenue.

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