600 Cookies: Update1

Cookies Baked : 124 (undecorated crosses)

Casualties: 3 :)

Time Elapsed: aprox. 4 hours (for making dough and baking)

Butter: 2.5 pounds

Sugar: 6 cups

Eggs: 6

Flour: 18 cups

I've made 2 triple batches of dough, and sadly its taken more than I expected to get 124 cookies. I suppose I am being generous with the thickness though because these will be the favors and need to packaged and probably not handled as gently as the others. I baked the first set on Sunday and ate so much dough, was covered in so much sugar I swore I would never want another cookie or taste of dough again. WRONG. As I baked again yesterday afternoon I was quite content to taste away as I went. Some things never change.

All this baking comes at kind of a strange time (I don't want to say bad, because I really do enjoy it!). I have been exceptionally busy with work the last few weeks and this week am filling in for an engineer and "drive testing" all of my clients territory (DC metro area, Delaware and Eastern Maryland, and Southern NJ) with 2 antennas on my roof, a laptop and a spectrum analyzer in my front seat, and a pen and paper in hand. Its technically considered a 2 person job, but we are short of resources which is ok beccause anyone who rode with me would have to put up with my audio books... same goes for baking. So far its been Jane Eyre (for the 5 millionth time, and now the Lady of Milkweek Manor) yeah yeah I know you are itching to spend 10 hours a day in the car with me!

600 IS a lot of cookies, David.

And they are no longer for babies and brides. These cookies are all for a boy. Well for a boy to share with everyone at his wedding. And his wife to be picked them out, so maybe, just maybe, they qualify as a bride thing. :)

My sweet cousin in Mississippi is getting married in 22 days, and I am doing a bunch of cookies (aprox. 300) in lieu of a grooms cake. I happen to think this is a brilliant idea! And, they wanted cross cookies (aprox. 300) as favors at the reception as well. So my plan is to start baking this weekend (butter is currently on the counter) and freeze the cookies in various stages of decorated-ness and then drive down to Mississippi a few days before the wedding to put the finishing touches on the cookies and get them ready.

I've been debating WHEN to start baking because even though they freeze really well, I wanted them (and their guests) to have the freshest cookies possible... but this weekend the cookie madness begins, and I am SOOOOOO excited. I am pretty sure this (baking custom cookies) is what I am meant to do in life, and I am glad Miss Meghan is giving me an excuse to try my skill out en mass.

So dispite the fact that I've neglected this blog of late, these kinds of projects are the reason I wanted a flourblossoms blog... to keep track of the progress, trials and sucesses that come with making 600 cookies in 22 days. I intend to have my camera close by at all times and will hopefully be back soon with an update.

Until then, can you tell what all these are?

* bonus points if you "got" the title of this post.