Cookies On Sticks In The Oven Wasting Space?
Baking By LittleLinda Updated 20 May 2007 , 2:06am by Cake_Princess
I was wondering how you can get many cookies on the cookie sheet with the sticks. Are you using sheets that have no sides with the sticks sticking out of the edges? Do you think you could turn over a cookie sheet that has sides and bake on the back?
I was wondering this too. It takes so long to bake cookies for bouquets (especially when I keep taking orders for 20 and 30+ cookies per bouquet!). I've also only found one rack in my oven that isn't too close to either heating element, so I can only bake one cookie sheet at a time! Ugh.
I usually only bake a few at a time but I'm interested to see how everyone else handles this. I have 100 to do for this week.
I insert my sticks right after I take the cookies out of the oven. I use wooden skewers and soaked the ends in a mixture of meringue powder and water. This acts as a glue and holds the sticks in place in the cookie. I found if I didn't do this the sticks come out to easy.
I have 3 large square airbake cookie sheets with no sides, just a little flip on 1 side (for easy grabbing out of the oven) i lay 3 cookies on 2 sides with the sticks facing inside the sheet, then 2 cookies on the other 2 sides again with the sticks laying inside so that all sticks are laying inside the cookie sheet, my bouquet cookies are anywhere from 2-6 inches
i made a quick diagram, hope this helps
I indent my sticks in the cookie right after baking. After they cool, I put a small amount of stiff RI on the stick, place it in my indention, and then ice over the top of it. I have never had a problem with sticks coming out. Usually get 10-12 cookies per sheet.
This is my justification for charging as much as I do for cookie bouquets. I don't have a convection oven yet, so if I am making large cookies on a stick for bouquets, I am sometimes limited to 6 at a time in the oven. I just place my cookies facing opposite each other, and if there are smaller cookies, I try and fit them in between the sticks. Otherwise, its a long night of baking. I was really tired of looking at cookies after easter. I had to do 15 bouquets in one night. Can you say...crazy!?!?! The fun is about to begin again this weekend, its graduation season. This time I will be spending a couple days on them, instead of one night. I know when to say NO I have too many orders now!!
I indent my sticks in the cookie right after baking. After they cool, I put a small amount of stiff RI on the stick, place it in my indention, and then ice over the top of it. I have never had a problem with sticks coming out. Usually get 10-12 cookies per sheet.
I have read that many people insert sticks after baking and I'm still confused. (or just anal retentive)
Woodyfam, "indent" are you talking about the stick actually being exposed on the back of the cookie?
I was always picturing that people are poking the stick through the side of the cookie right up into the center.
Also, (sorry, anal again) if you insert the sticks after, you must be taking them off the cookie sheet first (otherwise you'd still have that "not enough space" problem) right?
I do them afterward. I can fit about 10 cookies per sheet- and 3 sheets in the oven at a time. When they come out of the oven, I allow them to cool a bit until they are cool enough to pick up and then transfer them to my cooling rack. Once on the rack and still pretty warm I insert the stick into the bottom and push it at least half way up- I use wooden skewers and I first poke it with the pointy side to get the hole started and then flip it around to insert the non-pointy side. You just get a feel for it, being careful not to poke through the top or bottom (but I roll my cookies pretty thick, so this is easy to do)..I use wooden skewers because they're CHEAP (100 for 94c at WalMart) and because the pointy side pokes into my floral foam easily. I never have a problem with the sticks coming out- and I don't use any "glue". They cut really easily with garden style pruners!
tyty, I just looked at your bouquets and LOVE them. What did YOU use for the icings?
I also have the airbake sheets and I love them. I place the sticks (skewers) in the cookies after they have baked. Once they cool I place a small drop of RI where the cookie and skewer meet. This gives me double "insurance" that they aren't going anywhere. Fortunately I haven't had a problem. If you look at my pics you can see what I am talking about...the flower cookies you can see the white of the RI. I have even had several people tell me they are difficult to take off the skewer....but they do come off 
I was wondering how you can get many cookies on the cookie sheet with the sticks. Are you using sheets that have no sides with the sticks sticking out of the edges? Do you think you could turn over a cookie sheet that has sides and bake on the back?
You can use the back of the cookie sheet or buy rimless sheets.
I usually never have a problem with the sticks getting in the way. I have baked cookies with the sticks in and out and I find I bake one less cookie whe the sticks are in. Not a big deal for me.
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