Whether you want to pay back a favor or just cheer someone up, a surprise batch of cookies sent through the mail will brighten anyone's day. However, since homemade cookies won't keep their freshness as long as store-bought cookies, it's important to take a few precautions. To ensure that your cookies still taste delicious when they arrive at your recipient's address, avoid these three pitfalls. 

Using Newspaper As Packing Next To The Cookies' Plastic Wrapping

No matter how smooth your newspapers seem to you, ink bleeding is always a danger if they're next to a soft surface for a long time. Obviously, you need to wrap your cookies in something benign like plastic instead of newspaper. But even if you do this, it's still possible for some ink to seep through openings in plastic wrapping and ruin the flavor of your chocolate chips.

If you don't have enough packing peanuts or other types of packing materials to fill your box, only use newspaper on the very outer edge next to the cardboard. If you can't get at least two layers of different materials between the newspaper and the cookies, don't use newspaper at all.

Wrapping The Cookies In Plastic When They're Just Out Of The Oven

If you bake your chocolate chip cookies like most people do, the cookies will be soft and steamy when you take them out of the oven. If you don't give your cookies a sufficient amount of time to cool before you wrap them in plastic, they'll be damp and depressing when your recipient finally unwraps them.

This doesn't mean that you should give your cookies so much time to air that they become stale. Instead of waiting days to enclose your cookies in the relative protection of a box, aim for an hour or two after pulling them out of the oven at most.

Using Regular Mail When You're Sending The Cookies Overseas

Most homemade chocolate chip cookies will only maintain their full crispness and flavor if they're eaten within two or three days. While they'll be both edible and tasty for far longer, it's important to maximize how good your cookies taste if you want them to seem clearly superior to their store-bought counterparts. An estimated shipping time of three to four days may not be ideal, but it's much better than an estimated time of a week or more.

But regular mail shipped overseas often takes at least a week to reach its destination. If you're unlucky, the shipping time could be much more. So to at least partially protect your cookies from the ravages of time, mail them under some kind of priority if your preferred recipient is overseas.

Going to all the trouble of baking chocolate chip cookies just isn't worth it if you can't prevent them from getting ruined before they reach your recipient. So instead of assuming that transportation won't be a problem, carefully consider how your cookies will be packaged and shipped. Talk to a professional packaging company, like Port Aransas Business Center, for more cookie-preserving packaging information.

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