Ham Dinner, Chocolate Cookie Recipe
Undeterred by the blustery weather, 500 people ventured out to join us for dinner last night. The Texas Hold ’em group from the Canyon Lake Senior Center was the first to arrive (see photo, above center) and patiently waited for dinner service to begin.
Here’s what we served for dinner:
200 pounds of Farmland Pit smoked hams with brown sugar, ordered through Sysco, which we sliced ourselves and warmed in roasters
24 pans of broccoli rice casserole
90 pounds of honey roasted carrots
500 Rich’s Petit Pan dinner rolls, ordered through Sysco
70 homemade pumpkin pies (we served 60, and sold the last 10 after dinner)
22 dozen homemade double chocolate cookies
12 dozen homemade chocolate chip cookies
Double Chocolate Cookies, 22 dozen (264) cookies
(This amount will fit in our large commercial mixer in one batch.)
16 1/2 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
4 pounds of butter
½ cup vanilla
8 cups sugar
8 cups brown sugar
8 eggs
2 2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 cup milk
48 oz chocolate chips
Whisk together flour and baking soda. Cream butter, vanilla and sugars. Beat in eggs. At low speed beat in cocoa, then the milk. Mix in the flour just until blended. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop onto lined sheets. Bake for 12-13 minutes at 350* convection. Remove from oven and cool slightly before removing from cookie sheets.
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