The Arts & Cookery Bank’s 7-Day Hang It Up, Bake It Up, Light It Up Celebration aims to bring community members to the bank to savour the season with a special event planned on each of seven days between November 23rd and December 1st.
Saturday November 26th was devoted to baking cookies. In keeping with the Bank’s aim to be an ever-extraordinary place, several people gathered in the morning determined, not just to bake cookies, but to break a Guinness World Record. That would mean mixing, rolling, cutting, baking and delivering to the judge’s table more than one thousand cookies in an hour.
Saturday November 26th was devoted to baking cookies. In keeping with the Bank’s aim to be an ever-extraordinary place, several people gathered in the morning determined, not just to bake cookies, but to break a Guinness World Record. That would mean mixing, rolling, cutting, baking and delivering to the judge’s table more than one thousand cookies in an hour.
Martha and Dora Foster, mother and daughter team of bakers/cooks extraordinaire took on the task of planning the strategy with the help of the staff at the Arts & Cookery Bank. They investigated recipe formulations; determined the pros and cons of drop versus roll versus cookie cutter methods; gathered the ingredients and, as each participant arrived, briefed them on their specific task.
Tension mounted as the community cookie-makers arrived. Then it was time to spring into action - the video camera rolled, the stopwatch started and mixing began. The hour went quickly as flour flew, rolling pins flattened, cookie cutters clicked, and piles of cookies appeared before the judges.
And the final count was….. a whopping 809 above and beyond the previous 1,000 cookie record. It’s another outrageous accomplishment at the Arts & Cookery Bank. The video-taped evidence and paperwork have now been packed off to the Guinness World Record people, with record breaking success to be confirmed within a few weeks.
The Arts & Cookery Bank is a member of Savour Elgin.
See the slideshow below for some scenes from the 1-hour, 150-dozen cookie marathon.
Tension mounted as the community cookie-makers arrived. Then it was time to spring into action - the video camera rolled, the stopwatch started and mixing began. The hour went quickly as flour flew, rolling pins flattened, cookie cutters clicked, and piles of cookies appeared before the judges.
And the final count was….. a whopping 809 above and beyond the previous 1,000 cookie record. It’s another outrageous accomplishment at the Arts & Cookery Bank. The video-taped evidence and paperwork have now been packed off to the Guinness World Record people, with record breaking success to be confirmed within a few weeks.
The Arts & Cookery Bank is a member of Savour Elgin.
See the slideshow below for some scenes from the 1-hour, 150-dozen cookie marathon.
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