Linden's Collapsible Baking Rack

Back-to-school often means baking lots of cookies, or at least it did when I was a child. Please, tell me schools still hold bake sales and children still bring cupcakes in for their birthdays. Okay, phew.

Here's a great tool for the mom or dad pressed with the task of baking lots of cookies at once: a collapsible, four-tier cooling rack for cookie sheets. It's strong, holds four trays of baked treats, and when you're done, it folds down into a slender 1-inch wide package that can be slipped into a cabinet.

Linden Sweden is a small kitchenware company we have blogged before: they make attractive, smart products like this double spice grinder, and a set of mixing bowls with measurements.

• Buy the Linden Sweden Baker's Cooling Rack (Amazon, $19.95)

Related: Tip: Freezing Cookie Dough

Comments (4)

This would be more useful to me if it had cooling racks instead of spaces for cookie sheets. I never let cookies cool on the sheets since I only have two and there's almost always too much dough to fit on just those two.

At my child's school there are NO homemade treats allowed. All item except for lunch (of course) have to be prepackaged from a store and full of preservatives:(

At our local schools, all food to be shared must be pre-packaged with ingredients lists. I guess the liability is too high in case some allergic student gets sick (or worse) because somebody forgot to mention the peanut butter in the brownies.

I think bake sales are a different matter, because the school isn't responsible in the same way.

Regarding the rack--I'd think you could balance cooling racks on that, instead of the sheets they have in the picture. This would be tempting for my tiny kitchen, except that I hardly ever bake in my little oven (my standard sized cookie sheets just fit.)

OrganicAndNaturalMom & RebeccaCT,

Just as I feared. Well, back in the late 70s and early 80s (to date myself) when I was a tot in school, things were different and I don't recall any kids getting sick, but I guess this is just a sign of these litigious, allergenic times. I'll get to face this pleasure when our wee one heads off to school, but we have a few years yet.