Sheeting Cookies

        Today was my first day at Luna without any other interns.  The "intern" who I had been working with the most, Hannah, went back to her home town last Friday.  I put intern in quotes because she gets paid and wants to do something related to baking for a profession, and she is almost out of college.  So we are very different, therefore, she had the ability to help me for the past 8 days.  However now that she is gone I was kind of one my own.  I was told by another employee that I had to sheet cookies for an order and for the front of the store.  I didn't think that it would take me very long but it took me almost the entire day.  I sheeted a total of 22 cookies and it was very tiring and repetitive.  

         At Luna sheeting cookies simply means using the sheeting machine to flatten out the sugar cookie dough and then using cookie cutters to create different shapes.  The sheeting machine is a tricky contraption and takes a while to get used to.  However, once you get a feel for the machine it makes sheeting the cookies so much easier.  The trick to doing it successfully is flour.  You can never use too much flour when sheeting cookies.  Kasey and I did a bunch of different shapes: graduation caps for graduation, bathingsuits for summertime, suns, and hearts and rings for an order that I assumed was for a wedding.  Once we finally finished with sheeting the cookies it was almost time for us to go so we were given two small tasks.  Kasey decorated cookies while I scooped chocolate chip and peanut butter cookie dough.  Overall, the majority of our day was spent sheeting cookies.