That's what I asked her when she called me in June. A gift basket company in Seattle, Washington, found my website and asked me to make
9,000 graham crackers (that's 750 dozen) for a very special client. They would be part of 175 gift baskets/s'mores kits that would even include the little burner thingy for roasting marshmallows.
The second question I asked was, "And when do you need them?"
Lucky for me I had 2 1/2 months to bake all these. I only have 41 sheetpans left to do. They will be finished next week.
I have a huge walk-in freezer that stays at -16˚ f. which means I have been able to freeze these (6 dozen in a zip-loc freezer bag) as they are baked off. And because the freezer is so cold, most baked goods will be perfectly fine (properly wrapped) for several years, actually. The general rule is that for every 10 degrees below freezing, you can add a year on to its life in the freezer. Hooray for the industrial cold box!
The next big challenge in this particular job is how to ship them all the way out to Seattle with minimal breakage. I talked the customer into packaging the grahams in tins, in Seattle. So all I have to do is bubble wrap all 125 zip-locs and pack them into cartons. My plan is to send one carton first to see how much, if any, breakage occurs, and then, go from there.
I sure hope the UPS boys are nice to my big ol' cartons!
