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Whether I'm creating specialty cupcakes for a baby shower, making hundreds of mini desserts for a Yelp event, or simply baking some cookies for friends - I absoloutely adore desserts!  Sugar? Yes! Flour? Oh yeh! Chocolate? Gimme, gimme! 

Pastries Not Potatoes is not only a blog, but my tiny little dessert only catering company as well.  I've been in the food business for more than ten years and I can't think of anything better than to share my love of food with not only Chicago, but the world!


Sweets!
Melissa Humphrey
Chef Owner, Pastries Not Potatoes

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    Thursday
    04Dec2008

    Just Doing The Math...

    DateThursday, December 4, 2008 at 07:57PM

    Last night I was thinking about the rest of the month, and how it seems like it is light years away; and I began to calculate just how many cookies I'd be making before the year comes to a close.

    I figure there are 31 days in December, and I might have four days off this month.  That makes a total of 27 working days...here we go!

    27 days x 200 cookies a day = 5,400 cookies this month.  Alot, right? Well, 200 cookies is average. No biggie. When one takes into consideration, say - holiday parties - the numbers change.

    27 days x 200 cookies + (400 cookies x 5 holiday parties) = 7,400 cookies.

    That's alot of dough.  And butter. That's almost 70# of butter used just for cookies!

    None of this takes into consideration everything else I'll be doing for our holiday season.  Sure we've got parties, but we've got concerts too.  Next week we're doing shows all over town except for Tuesday.  Every day, at least one show - some days...two or three.

    This is going to be a long month!

     

    Sweets!
    Melissa

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