The Cookie Kitchen is closed for the year. I'm all baked out. This week was a mad rush to do some last minute batches of pinwheels, spritz and shortbread, but we're done! We had a lot of fun doing this and are already making plans for next year's Christmas season. I must say that God blessed us more than I ever dreamed! I would have been happy with just 10 orders, and I never thought that those 10 orders would be baked, decorated and devoured by our first customer before we even got our flyers printed! What a wonderful Christmas gift God gave us this year! Here are some of our statistics:
We assembled 42 platters (only platters, not counting non-platter orders. There at least 150 of each cookie that was sold to people who wanted to put them on their own platters.)
We sold 394 of each of the five cookies.
We made 1,562 shortbread!
We made about 175 dozen cookies total, including the first few trial batches to perfect each recipe.
I went through 30 kg of flour, 45 lbs of butter for the shortbread alone (I haven't calculated how much for the other cookies as well), 15 kg of sugar and all the other miscellaneous ingredients. I didn't do the decorating, so I don't know how many pounds of powdered sugar we went through, but I do know it was a huge amount.
The good news is that there are enough leftovers that we can enjoy some with our own families this week, too!
We have several people who have asked us if we do this throughout the year and have put our numbers in their address books and on their calendars for next year to make sure they order on time! We also had several early customers who re-ordered more cookies because their original platters disappeared!
Thanks to those of you who prayed for us during this time, especially after a broken finger on my end and a chicken pox scare at Connie's. Somehow we managed and God really blessed us. We dedicated this little business to Him and He poured His blessings on us!
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Why is everything else measured in lbs and sugar is measured in kgs? Just wondering. Hey...sit back and enjoy!
Drooling now thinking about chocolate caramel treats.
Katie Miller
PS: cookies would be a good Valentine's and Easter offering for husbands to give their wives. You could make those chocolate caramel things in egg shapes! YUM
WOW! That's a lot of ingredients! Glad you enjoyed doing it. We'll enjoy eating them in the next few days! Thanks!
Wow!!! Good for you, Martha! I don't know how you found the time to do all of that! About the kg and lbs...I totally understand;)
Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Love,
Jenny
Here's a testimonial for your wonderful cookies: As we had our family Christmas dinner with 9 grandchildren, they were instructed not to eat any of the cookies or other sweets before dinner and before they were told to do so. After dinner, the kids had fun playing together while we cleaned up the dishes, etc. Then we sang a few Christmas carols...still not having tasted the cookies. Finally as we sang "We wish you a Merry Christmas" our three oldest grand sons stood drooling over the beautifully decorated cookies...over 75% were yours... then without missing a beat began to sing together, on key to the tune of we wish you a Merry Christmas..."Bring on the yummy cookies, o bring on the yummy cookies...bring them right now.
We won't go until we get some, we won't go until we get some...so bring them right on." Who could resist such melodious request for cookies. Of course, Grandma told them to dig in...and they did!
Thanks for all the time an effort you took to make our Christmas treats so special. Love you all.
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