Storage And Organization For Cookies...
Baking By Havingfunbaking Updated 2 Jan 2006 , 8:44pm by Havingfunbaking
Hi! For those of you who have been baking and decorating cut-out cookies for sale as wedding favors, etc... this may be a funny question, but I was wondering if you could tell me how you organize the drying of the royal icing on the cookies in your home or rental kitchen?
If I am able to get my Mother's home licensed with a domestic kitchen license I need space for the cookies while they are drying-up to 100 or more at a time-and was wondering if you set up tables and use your own regular dining table and counters or have any other tips or advice on where and how to go about this while taking up the least amount of space. I don't think the state will let me dry them in the garage, although they did say the refrigerator and freezer could go there.
If I rent a commercial kitchen it would only be part-time and they won't be able to give me alot of space for cookies to dry it seems. Just wondering...
Thanks in advance! 
I think the easiest thing is to get a bakers rack and the pans that go with it. They come in commercial sizesas well as a smaller size that fits in most household ovens. You can find a whole set-up for around $150 used (steel bakers rack and 12-15 baking sheets). Just make sure you measure first to make sure they fit in whatever oven you are going to use.
The baker's racks are really handy because they are on casators and you can roll them wherever you need them to be. They aren't much wider or deeper than the baking sheet and depending on which one you choose they can hold 12 (half rack) to 56 baking sheets...that's a whole lot of cookies!
HTH 
Thank you Cande for your input and great idea! I will look into that as it seems like it would be worth the price possibly to get one. I appreciate your advice.
Great! Thanks again. I have really enjoyed looking around at all of the great advice and wonderful photos in the galleries on this site. I am new to cake and cookie decorating, but am enjoying learning how little by little.
I don't have a big set up for my cookies, all I do is use cookie sheets stacked cross ways on each other.
As I decorate the cookies I place the wet cookies on a cookie sheet, when that cookie sheet fills up, I place a second cookie sheet on the top of the first, but turn the second one (kind of like a plus sign +). I just keep stacking them until I am finished. It doesn't take up much room on the counter and they can stay until they are dry. Works great for me.
) why didn't I think of that. I double that thanks to gma also! 
What a great idea! Like I said, I don't have experience making alot of cookies at one time yet, but will be needing to do that next year at times. Thank you for the great tip!!
Thank you everyone!
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