OK all, it is Girl Scout Cookie time at our house. The girls, Shawna' and Camryn have been busy selling cookies for almost one week now, with one week left to go. They both usually sell quite a bit, so come March when we take delivery of said cookies, our garage becomes full of yummy cookies.
So, I thought that I would share some fun cookie facts with you all.
Courtesy of Little Brownie Bakers.
Cookie Fun Facts:
We make our own caramel for Samoas®. It‘s cooked the old fashion way in copper kettles to 234 degrees.
Do-si-dos® and Tagalongs® take 230,000 lbs. of peanut butter per week.
Peanut butter crème is deposited onto Do-si-do® cookies at the rate of 2800 per minute.
After exiting the oven, Thin Mints travel 300 feet on a conveyor belt to cool before being coated in the chocolate.
A rotary die shapes Trefoils. There are 300 identical Trefoil shapes engraved in one rotary die. The die rotates 17 times a minute equaling 5100 cookies a minute.
Samoas® go through a cooling tunnel at 40-50 degrees before chocolate is applied.
Do-si-dos® crème goes onto the cookies at 2800 per minute and are wrapped at 64 packages per minute!
WEEKLY INGREDIENTS (during peak production):
Flour: 21 truckloads, 1,050,000 lbs.
Shortening: 7 truckloads, 300,000 lbs.
Cocoa: 50,000 lbs.
Chocolate coating: 500,000 lbs.
Sugar: 14.5 truckloads, 650,000 lbs.
Peanut butter: 230,000 lbs.
Toasted coconut: 75,000 lbs.
MIXING INSTRUCTIONS:
Mixers are machine operated. Ingredients are weighed and released with the push of a button.
Each batch is 1200-1500 lbs... It takes 10 minutes to mix the dough, which lasts 20-30 minutes and takes 5-7 minutes to bake.
There are 7 ovens approximately 100’-280’ long.
BAKING INFORMATION:
Each oven approximately 100-280 feet long and has 4 baking zones with very specific jobs…
1st: prepares the cookies to be baked by softening them.
2nd: bakes cookies from the bottom up
3rd: brings the cookies to a flat shape
4th: gives the cookies their color
Just in case anyone was wondering!
P.S. I have a confession to make.... I still have a box of Do-si-Dos in my freezer from last year!
2 comments:
Whoa. I have a new appreciation for those little Thin Mints. Amazing.
Ok, you don't know me from Adam, but I am good buddies with your mom and your sister, Abby. I have been craving Girl Scout cookies but know 0 people that sell them.
Until now...
If I can put an order in with you just go to my blog and let me know on my latest post. I would like 2 boxes of Samoas and 2 of thin mints.
I live in Bountiful as well.
Thanks!
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