The Lawton Public Schools district kitchen may resemble the North Pole just a little bit as workers are busy baking 11,000 Christmas cookies.
Those cookies will be part of the holiday lunch meal today for Lawton students, staff and faculty. Lawton Public Schools kitchen team manager Debbie Wilson said everyone in the district will get one Christmas sugar cookie.
Wilson’s staff is busy rolling out mounds of cookie dough — 35 cases of it — before cutting it into shapes of bells, trees, stars and gingerbread men. Some staff members roll the dough out by hand while others run it through a pastry machine to flatten it out. Then it’s all hands on deck to cut out the cookies and place them on large cookie sheets – about 25 cookies to a sheet.
Then the trays are popped into an oven set at 350 degrees and cooked for 9 minutes. Too much longer and they burn; Wilson said she knows this from personal experience. Once the cookies have cooled, they will be boxed up and frozen before being sent out to the schools where kitchen staff will thaw them before serving them Tuesday.
Lest one think it is a drudgery to spend five to six days making trays full of cookies, Wilson said it gets the staff in the Christmas spirit.
“We have fun. We go around singing Christmas songs,” Wilson said. “It puts you in the Christmas mood. It’s time-consuming, yes, but it’s worth it.”
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