Good of you to take two for the team. ;) And you should be rewarded with a couple of cookies after so herculean an effort. I see the new kitchen is paying for itself. :) How did the fundraising go?

I'm not impressed. I'm full of admiration!

Awesome!!

plllog, I think it went very well, although I have not received the "final" total yet. So you think all that work wore off the cookie calories? (grin)

Wintercat, it was actually a lot easier than I anticipated. It helps that I have 9 of those half sheet pans, so I could put 3 in the ovens, take those out, put in three more. By the time the last three went in the first three were cool, I flipped the parchment over and filled 'em back up. Once I got a "rhythm" going, it worked very nicely.

Annie

Thanks for the parchment tip. How come I've never thought of that?

Those cinnamon snaps are calling my name so loud I can hear them from the other side of the Atlantic.

i need the recipe for the cinnamon snaps....
500 cookies? Herculean effort! How many pounds of flour? Butter?

The windmill cookies sound like speculaas, a Dutch cookie pressed in a mould which for the commercially produced ones usually has an imprint of a windmill. One of my Christmas cookie recipes is for speculaas, which I roll and cut with a cutter. It’s not a family recipe so if you’d like to try it I can post it when I get home.

I’m interested in the oatmeal scotchies recipe :-)

Good on you for baking so many cookies for your fundraiser! I do hope it was suitably appreciated.

Wow. All I can say!

Impressive! It would take me a lot longer than that to bake so many cookies! I wish I liked baking as much as I liked cooking. Those look really tasty.

That is impressive. Every year at Easter I make 600 cutout cookies for a fundraiser. Make, bake, ice and decorate! So I know the work.

I can't get as far as being impressed at baking so many cookies in that amount of time because I'm still busy being wildly jealous of having enough freezer space for a project like that.

Impressive that is for sure!! That would be a challenge for me.

I do know being organized, planning ahead, having kitchen conveniences, and probably most of all “love to cook” would make the project easier and Annie your name is written all over that.

Good job!!

Wow!!! The max I can make in five hours is only like 200 cookies. You are fast! I bet the people who got them loved them! Your food always looks soooo good.

Is this a new event for the Summer Olympics? Marathon Cookie Baking! Awesome job!

Good grief Wonder Woman!

That takes focus. And so evenly baked. It is nice having so many sheet pans. That was my tag sale find. A bakery went out of business and I picked up a 1/2 dozen for a dollar each. Must have failed rather quick as they were pristine.

Glad all went well. Hoping/praying for pain relief soon.

Totally awesome! LOVE the photos!!!! Congrats on a job well done!

Totally impressed! I could have scarfed up a dozen of the chocolate chips all by my self! And what a great turn out for a worthy cause. So tell, who got the job of making the sauce and the pasta?

You are indeed Wonder Woman!! I don't think I've made that many cookies in my whole adult life.

Thank you, everyone!!

Colleen, I'd love that recipe. It isn't surprising, I guess, that the kids were eating chocolate chip and several of the "elders", by which I mean even older than me, were dunking those cinnamon snaps in coffee. It's kind of a classic, I think, whereas the kids go straight for the "sweet".

Writersblock, I haven't had beef processed yet, so I had extra empty freezer room for cookies! Timing was good, because in a couple of weeks the freezers will be full again.

Peppi, I also had the job of cooking pasta. I cooked some ahead and refrigerated it, then just gave it a "dunk" for a minute in boiling water to heat it up. The sauce was kept warm in electric roasters and I cooked pasta throughout the event, so it was only when the servers were low and the fresh pasta wasn't quite done that we used the stuff I cooked ahead. Add some fresh hot sauce and the pasta was heated nicely. I had my "dream team" serving, three of the local police officers. One served the spaghetti and each of the other two had sauce, one with meat and one without. Parmesan cheese in shakers at the end of the line and the cookies and drinks were in one corner, the salad in another, so we didn't have people lining up at a single station, they were spread out and "serve yourself" so while some people were getting coffee or cookies, others were having salad while others were getting pasta and garlic bread. There was a bake sale and a silent auction simultaneously in different rooms of the church. It actually worked pretty well, I was pleasantly surprised.

All the food was donated, so the sauce came in big containers from two local restaurants, already prepared. We just added meat to half and heated it in the roasters, but we had to brown the ground beef first, which doesn't really take long and we also did that ahead so it was ready to heat.

LindaC, I didn't measure it all in pounds, but I used 4 pounds of butter, 19 cups of flour, 9 cups of oatmeal, 7 cups of white sugar and 9 1/2 cups of brown sugar, plus chocolate and butterscotch chips and various "other" condiments. I'll post the recipes on separate threads, so they're easier to find. Without figuring in my time, just the ingredients alone plus the electricity to bake them, I figure they cost about 6 cents per cookie and I'll never be able to buy one of those $3 cookies at a bakery again without thinking about that. (sigh)

Mustangs, it's only about 40 dozen, so if you baked a dozen a year for the past 40 years, you've made it. (grin) I'm sure, somehow, that BeauLily has talked you into baking several dozen at least!

Nothing hurts today except the muscle that runs up the back of my left leg. I know for sure I didn't "work my butt off" because it kind of hurts so I know it's still there, LOL.

Annie

Annie, you never cease to amaze me! Your work ethic and resilience are incredible!

Wow, Annie, that's amazing! And I agree, how you did that many cookies and they are all so evenly baked?!?! Wowza! I'm so happy the benefit was such a success!

Now... how about the recipe for those delicious looking chocolate chip cookies? : ) I mean, 600 people gobbled them up, so they must've been THE BEST!

"Only 40 dozen cookies". LOL, oh dear Annie, you're a miracle. I love your posts and your activities. Nothing fazes you, you just say OK, roll up your sleeves and getter done! You're a real asset to the community. Have you been nominated for Mayor yet? :-))

I'm always in awe of your time management skills and organization. I should have made more bagels on Saturday, but at just the thought of it, I walked out of the kitchen! LOL

That is massive! I've only ever made half that many in one night, and that was using a Hobart machine and commercial ovens.

What kind of benefit was it? Did people pay to eat and then the money went to the benefit?

sounds like a ,lovely event...is it annual or was this just one time?
When you say 40 dozen that doesn't sound like so terribly many....but 500 sounds like an impossible task!
and don't tell me you made 40 dozen cookies using only 4 pounds of butter! Maybe for one kind of cookie?

How many did you intend to feed? about 10 years ago when RAGBRAI ( google it!) stopped in our town, our pastor said we would attempt to serve 1000. It was a near fiasco because she didn't know what she was doing and wouldn't ask me for help planning. She misfigured the pasta needed, ignoring the fact that it expands when cooked, so had 4 times what was needed. Thank heavens it was donated! and I stopped into the kitchen and showed her that she really didn't need to cook all 250 pounds of pasta. Turns out we only fed 600...and I have no idea what happened to all the extra cooked food...but do know I was using penne for funeral lunches for a couple of years, before we finally donated the rest.

Hope you made lots of money!

The benefit was a "one time" event, thank goodness. We may have smaller events, like bake sales, but I think this is the only big meal type event. The proceeds are going toward medical and travel expenses, and we made enough to make a pretty good sized dent, although no one ever knows what the medical expenses will be until they are all fixed/cured/treated/whatever.

I made 5 batches of chocolate chip, 4 batches of oatmeal and 2 batches of the cinnamon snaps. So, 3 3/4 cups for the chocolate chip, 2 cups for the cinnamon and 4 cups for the oatmeal. 9 3/4 cups of butter, 2 cups per pound, so that's actually nearly 5 pounds of butter, I forgot to add in the 2 cups for the cinnamon!

Annie

Wow!

Madonna