Nfsc On A Stick A Success, I Guess!
Baking By cakes4ck Updated 3 Jun 2007 , 11:11am by practiceandpatience
Over the last few days I made star NFSC on a stick for 17 graduating seniors. I bought $ paper boxes in blue, yellow, & white and inserted the cookies into styrofoam and topped with shredded paper. They were cute, good, and I got a lot of compliments but I had a ton of problems along the way. So, here they are for those of you who haven't made these before.
1) I couldn't get the thickness right. However, after reading on here about using dowel rods for spacers when rolling the dough it went much better. But, I still think I needed a thicker cookie.
2) The glaze from Pennies's colored nicely to blue & yellow, but it was a little runny in the beginning. Instead of adding more sugar, I just let it set for a little while and it was much better. I was going to write over the top of them, but never got that done.
3) Inserting stick was a pain. I first started by cutting the cookie and inserting stick and then putting extra dough over the stick. That was ok, but I didn't like the look. So, then I saw how to use a skewer to make a hole and then insert when still warm. Those looked much better.
4) Lost a lot of cookies because they fell apart or off the stick. I think this was partly due to thickness and maybe to doneness. I like a soft cookie so I only cooked them until they were just browning on the edges. My kids however, loved when another broke because they got the broken pieces.
5) transporting to school was a nightmare. I broke a lot of them on the way in.
All and all, they turned out, but I will definately do things different when I try these again. Hopefully, this helps someone out so they don't make the same mistakes.
What a job! I've been there, done that. I worked on 12 cookie bouquets, 6 cookies per bouquet. Luckily, not a single one broke. I always put the cookie on the stick before baking, and I roll the dough out to 1/4". You don't get as many cookies per baking sheet, so it takes longer to bake, but it pays off if there aren't any that break. Try laying the stick on the baking sheet, lay the cookie on top of that, and gently press the dough down.
I'm guessing the seniors were thrilled! Specially decorated cookies are a great treat.
Sounds like a definite learning process!! We'd love to see a pic! 
Yeah, I just started doing cookie bouquets and had some problems with the cookies falling off the sticks. I think it was because I wasn't patching up the back of the cookie with some dough. But I did learn something, I bought a 25 lb. bag of flour from costco and was using that then ran out and bought just a 5 lb. bag of a name brand flour and the cookies were sooooooo...............much nicer held there shape perfectly. So you really get what you pay for and It's defenitately true to use the best ingredients!!!!!!!!!!!!
For my cookie bouquets, I make my cookies quite thick. I insert the stick
before baking (midway through the thickness) this way there is cookie
all around the stick. When the cookies have cooled and if I have any
that didn't grab hold of the stick or are sort of spinning in the stick, I
carefully take the stick out, dip it in a little Royal icing and then carefully
insert it back into the cookie for the Royal icing to dry. Hold the cookie
on very well!!
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