My latest baking challenge came by default and not
design. Nowhere on my list of things to
bake was 1000 individually branded biscuits shaped like dog bones!
I was midway through icing a chocolate cake when I got the
call to confirm the order and quantities. After calmly accepting the order, I put the
phone down and in an equally calm manner, without thinking what I was doing, placed
a large spoonful of chocolate icing in my mouth. Once I registered what I’d done, I justified the
icing in that it helped me think straight.
And so the game of logistics began. After a highly entertaining conversation in Woolworths
explaining to the cashier why it was that I needed 12kg’s of flour, 5kg’s of sugar, 30 eggs and 10
bricks of butter, I was ready to go. I had 6 days to make 1000 biscuits, which I
broke down into 200 per day giving me an extra day should something go
wrong.
200 biscuits per day was completely doable and the baking turned out to go faster than I thought it would. The time and patience came in individually packaging each biscuit. I don’t have the most nimble fingers at the best of times, and after a couple of upside down and angled bows I can now tie the perfect bow in my sleep.
By Thursday the biscuits were done, each in a cellophane bag with a Sprinkles sticker, divided amongst 19 beer boxes and ready to go.
My final challenge on Friday morning was to transport the biscuits to Pretoria. Despite my initial conviction, I now know that 19 beer boxes definitely can’t fit into a VW Polo! After some car juggling, taking a wrong turn, and one fallen down box of biscuits (none broken) my biscuits where handed over. On delivery, the first comment I got was, ‘Flip, that’s a lot of biscuits’. ‘Um, I know – I made every single one!’
It might not have been one of my goals, but at least now the challenge of making 1000 biscuits in 5 days can be added to my list and ticked off!
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