There's cookie's in the air!!!

There's cookie's in the air!!!

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES THAT IS!!!

Today kicks off the first day of Girl Scout cookie sales. As I am typing this, both of my girls are out taking orders for cookies! They are each trying to sell 300 boxes +. A goal that they both will easily reach. (As past years have shown!)

So, if you know of anyone looking for cookies, then leave me a comment and we will call you to take your order. Feel free to let family's and friends know. We'd be happy to take orders for the Bountiful/Centerville areas!

Thanks for your support!

Below is some fun cookie facts!

Cookie Fun Facts

• Little Brownie bakes over 4,500,000 Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies per day during peak baking times.
• 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® 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 TRIVIA:

• 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.

BAKING INFORMATION:

• Each oven approximately 100-280 feet long and has 4 baking zones with very specific jobs…
  1. 1st: prepares the cookies to be baked by softening them.
  2. 2nd: bakes cookies from the bottom up
  3. 3rd: brings the cookies to a flat shape
  4. 4th: gives the cookies their color