Frosting Cookies

        I started off the day by finishing my last job from yesterday.  Now that Hannah (the intern who helped me with almost all of my baking tasks) is gone, I'm kind of on my own. So once I got there I checked the "board". The "board" is the dry erase board on the door of the cooler in the kitchen that has a list of things to do for the day.  So I finished my last task from yesterday, scooping the peanut butter cookie dough.  I did a total of 4 trays of peanut butter cookie dough and it took me a lot longer than I thought. Once I finished that I started to make buttercream because the board said that we needed 4 batches.  I only had the time to make one batch today, so tomorrow I will hopefully finish the rest.  It takes me a while to do the buttercream because before I even start mixing ingredients I have to scale out all of the ingredients on the scale.  Thankfully the eggs had already been separated so I didn't have to waste 2 hours separating eggs.  There were also a lot of people working in the kitchen today so it was difficult to find a place to scale out my ingredients.  Once I finished scaling out for 2 batches I mixed the sugar and the egg whites and whisked them until they were smooth.  Unfortunately there is only one big mixer and one big bowl and whisk at Luna.  This was in use when I finished whisking so I had to wait a while until the mixer was done.
        While I waited for the mixed I made colored frosting for cookies.  The frosting for the cookies is made with white frosting that is already made and food coloring.  I'm not sure who makes the white frosting but it is always magically around.  I made yellow, blue, purple and green frosting for cookies in the shapes of one piece bathing suits and bikinis.  Then I had to multitask and make buttercream at the same time as frosting my cookies.  This was not easy in any way and I actually screwed up the buttercream a little.  When the egg whites and the sugar mixed over the boiling water you have to watch it every once in a while to make sure that the sugar is mixed in.  I was so busy frosting my cookies that I totally forgot to check the buttercream so when I poured it into the mixer I noticed some sugar at the bottom of the bowl.  It wasn't that much so I figured it was okay.  Then I took my lunch break and after that I started decorating the bikini shaped cookies.  While I was doing this and Kasey was working on another task in the back Mr. Harris came to visit us.  It was nice to see a friendly face and talk about our project.  After we talked for a while about how our project is going I finished decorating the cookies and didn't even realize that it was way past 3 o'clock; but I feel bad leaving a task unfinished because the other employees have so much to do.  Below is a picture of the bikini cookies I decorated today.