Good morning, and happy post-Thanksgiving weekend.
This week I had major project going on. My wife asked me if I would provide some food treats for her workplace. Of course, I agreed without hesitation.
So last week, I worked out the menu of treats. Then I carefully planned out the logistics for the week, the timing of what doughs could be made ahead of time and what needed to be made on the last day, the balance of different types of treats, the timing of baking which would last a whole day, etc.
This project included 4 types of cookies, 3 types of brownies, gingerbread mini cakes with lemon zest, and several mini loaves of banana bread. As always, when I am baking I am constantly looking for little tweaks to make either in recipes or in preparation protocols or even packaging. And with this amount of food being made with an initial prep of doughs and batter ahead of time and then all being baked on the final day, there were plenty of opportunities to find tweaks and refine processes. Large-scale batch baking can get easier and easier every time you do it if you use each attempt as a way to identify refinements.
This morning, I got up early, packaged everything in boxes, took them in with my wife as she went to work, and set them all out and unwrapped cakes and opened boxes. It was a very satisfying thing, indeed, to see it all completed. And of course my wife was all smiles. And that alone is worth the effort.
That's wonderful!
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