Making the Dough

There is a really good cookie we sell in the store. Its a chocolate cookie made with sea salt in the dough and sea salt sprinkled on the top of each cookie before its baked. Its the salty/sweet combination that everyone loves (or should love.) Today I made 56 lbs of the dough in three batches. The mixer did most of the work so I can't complain but after all the dough was mixed I had to roll it into four pound logs and freeze them. I thought that making cookie dough would be a fun job but it really wasn't that much fun. It certainly isn't the worst job but making 27 x a recipe of cookies is a lot different than making one batch.

I have the large large quantity recipe memorized now and will have to break it down if I want to make it at home from memory. I realize now how helpful a "bakers percentage" would be in this situation. Also if the recipe had been in pounds instead of cups it would have been easier to figure out exactly how to divide the dough evenly into logs.