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.

posted by Tiamat_the_Red on September 9th 2008 at 7:59am
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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:(

posted by luv2cook on September 9th 2008 at 10:23am
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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.)

posted by RebeccaCT on September 9th 2008 at 2:53pm
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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.

posted by Sara Kate on September 10th 2008 at 4:30am
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