An Unexpected kitchen find!

Look what I found at the Liberty Antique Festival... It's a welded, stainless

steel, half-height commercial sheet pan rack and mobile table. And, I love it!

 This was a sweet find! Every time I've baked and decorated cookies, I wished I had

one. Especially that time I baked and decorated 300 cookies. Have you ever baked

and decorated 300 iced sugar cookies? Well I have, and I can tell you, it means there

are cookies everywhere! All over the kitchen counters, top of the stove and covering

both dining room tables. But now, with the help of this little baby, I'll be able to cool

cookies and dry flood-iced cookies overnight, all in one tidy, compact space. And,

since this is one especially sweet-yippee of a bun cart, it comes equipped with a

work table, and capacity to hold 12 full-size sheets, which means I now have an

extra work surface, capable of holding even my extra stand mixer! I know you're

wondering about the deal, so I'll tell you... The dealer had it staged in his booth

with a vintage toastmaster sandwich press sitting on top of it. Truly a commercial-

grade, 1970's restaurant sandwich press, and pretty cool too. But what would I do

with that sandwich press? Nothing! So I asked if he'd split it up and sell just the

cart. Fortunately, today was the last day of this festival and this dealer wasn't

operating a mobile-museum... He was there to sell. So he lowered the price

from $225 to $125. I said nothing, and then the dealer asked if $50 would do

it, which of course, it did! I've been looking, and others, like this one, which

holds fewer pans, sell for much more! And except for a few drips of ick, my

pan cart appears to be unused. Ick is always free. But it's nothing a little...

 Soft scrub, and elbow grease won't cure. Okay, so it took a lot of Soft scrub!

 Nevertheless, this find may just inspire me to

whip up a few batches of sugar cookie dough!

 After all, it's been a while since I made these and these...

 And, now that I have this sheet pan cart, I'm out of excuses!

By the way... You know about THIS SWEET DEAL from a few weeks

ago, but there's another one I have to tell you about. We just learned

on Good Friday the true value of what we picked up; and, it is so

unbelievable that it's taken me a couple of weeks just to wrap

my brain around it... But I promise to share it with you soon;

just as soon as a second appraiser takes a look and is able

to confirm the first appraiser's opinion. So... Stay tuned!