It’s Tip Friday on Marilyn’s Treats. And todays tip is Storing Cookies.
Storing Cookies
The first thing to keep in mind when storing cookies is that they need to be completely cool before you put them away, otherwise they’ll steam, soften up, and stick to each other. Cookies can usually be stored at room temperature, in airtight containers, for up to a week. Appropriate containers can be cookie jars or tins, screw top plastic jars or snap-top plastic boxes, or a tightly closed plastic bags. Bar cookies with lots of fruit or dairy ingredients should be refrigerated, well-wrapped. If you plan to store cookies for more than a week, we advise wrapping them so air can’t get to them, and freezing for up to 3 months.
Also see how to make your cookies perfectly round. Read Tip Friday A Bakers Tale Or how to Ship Cookies, Freeze Cookie Dough, or Store Cookies.
This article is part of the Tips That Help in the Kitchen Series, Tip Friday.
Marilyn, great tips for storing cookies! We usually don’t have to worry about the time frame/expiration because cookies in our house don’t last long. Lol.
That is what I like to hear Keri!
I always love your tips! Little things that I don’t think about that can make a huge difference. I think that I put the cookies away to soon, while they are still warm. I just need to keep my hands off them, and stop eating them, until they are cool! Is that possible?
No Nikki it isn’t possible. Not that I have figured out anyway.
I love your Friday tips. Cookies don’t usually last long around here. If they are around for more than I day or two I send them off to a neighbor or teacher so they stop tempting me. Thanks for sharing on #FridayFrivolity
I usually put them in a baggie or the kale container. Either way they are oo easy to sneak!
Great tips Marilyn! Thanks for sharing on the What’s for Dinner link up!
You are welcome Helen!
Great baking tips from you again my dear! Thank you for sharing them and linking up at #sharethejoy
You are welcome Michelle.
As usual, a wonderful tip! Thanks for the reminder to refrigerate things with lots of dairy!
Thanks for sharing this with us at Throwback Thursday this week!
Mollie
Thanks Mollie! You are welcome.
When I first started baking I would cool my chocolate chip cookies on a plate, one on top of the other. Of course they stuck together and became one big blob.Talk about a newbie! Thanks again for generously sharing your links at Celebrate Your Story. Your tips are great reminders for seasoned bakers and great for newbies as well.
Even after I figured out the cooling trick I ignored it. It is my job to eat all the unpresentable cookies!
Thanks for all the good suggestions for storing cookies. Good to know that they will keep for three months in the freezer, hopefully out of temptations way. Although my son got a liking for frozen cookies 🙂 when he was young.
Kathleen
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Mine never last long enough to expire. But I do freeze unbaked dough for fast treats later!
I think you forgot the most important cookie storage hint of all – the kale container! 🙂
True CJ! Thanks!
Great tips – especially on when to refrigerate. I am always wondering whether or not something should be stored in the fridge. Thanks for linking up with Merry Monday!
I have been paying close attention to expiration and safety lately with all these recalls.
Great tips here! 🙂
I would love for you to add this to my Recipes and Crafts Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pluckyrecipescraftstips/
Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!
Thank you Jess
I like to put a piece of bread in with my cookies to keep them soft 🙂
What a great idea! I need to give it a try. Thanks.
Awesome cookie tips! I hate it when they stick together! Lol! (not really, because then I usually just eat both…ha!)
I eat the sticky ones and the ones that bend and break. I don’t have too many of those now that I use the muffin pan!
Great tips for those people who have enough self control not to eat all the cookies within 24 hours after coming out of the oven! 🙂 That would not be me!
My problem is I make bunches of batches to compensate! Thanks for commenting Cathy!
What a great posts. Thanks for the tips. So glad you linked this up at Family Joy Blog Link Up Party this week!
Glad you were interested. Thank you!
Marilyn – I think this is such a great post. Thanks for all the tips!
You are welcome Ilka. Thanks!
I love this tip. I just usually leave them in a random box and it gets all soggy. Need to get a nice glass cookie jar.
Make it see through. The light can get inside and you know when you need to bake more! Thnks May.
I never have any cookies left!!…… Lol!
Of all the cookie problems a person can have that is the best!
Great tip! Thanks for sharing! I love your link party list. How did you do it?
I’d love you to come over and visit. I have a giveaway going on! Come over and enter.
Have a good weekend.
Thank you! As for the party list. I made an inlinkz linkup for each day of the week and added the script to a page. To get it under all my posts I created a widget that clicked to the page. It is in a widget area from a plugin, After Content Widget.