Happy Friday: Easy Tip to Keep Cookies Fresh

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   Melloddie January 6, 2017 at 6:34 pm MST

   Wow definitely did not know this. Thanks for this info!

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   Ihearthip January 6, 2017 at 6:39 pm MST

   Neat trick!!! Thanks for sharing 🙂

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   Ihearthip January 6, 2017 at 6:40 pm MST

   Your cookies look great too!

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   Shop624 January 6, 2017 at 6:40 pm MST

   wouldn’t the bread get mold ?

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  kupzyk January 6, 2017 at 6:50 pm MST

  I’m wondering the same thing… Especially if you put it in brown sugar…

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  Angela January 6, 2017 at 6:58 pm MST

  My mother-in-law does this and I find that the cookies taste like bread.

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  Erin January 6, 2017 at 8:15 pm MST

  They do. I notice a bit of a flavor transfer when cookie varieties are mixed like they are in the pic above, too. The sugar cookies will take on a bit of “chocolate essence” from the kiss. I usually package a single variety of cookies together and freeze them to keep them fresh.

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  hellfire gainz January 7, 2017 at 4:38 am MST

  Yes, always freeze and pull as needed.

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  David January 6, 2017 at 7:48 pm MST

  The moisture from the bread is absorbed by the cookies or brown sugar. Mold needs a moist environment to grow, which is why crackers (or in this case really dry bread) don’t really grow mold.

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  rebecca January 6, 2017 at 7:50 pm MST

  no, because there is no moisture in the bread to grow mold. the bread is hardened up like a piece of dry toast. there is way less moisture int he bread after adding it to the cookies than there is when you originally remove it from the bread package.

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  Stacy January 6, 2017 at 9:09 pm MST

  Been doing this my entire life and have never had anything mold. Even after a week. It gets way hard and I put a new slice in. No mold. Ever.

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  Emily January 7, 2017 at 12:51 pm MST

  This is my tip and I have I have never had mold grow in the bags or cookie containers that I put them in. I have also never noticed any taste difference when I use the bread.

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   BMore January 6, 2017 at 6:42 pm MST

   It works in brown sugar too!

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  Innavation January 6, 2017 at 7:35 pm MST

  Great tip!

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   Donna January 6, 2017 at 6:43 pm MST

   Thanks for sharing. I had no idea.

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   Karen January 6, 2017 at 6:45 pm MST

   I do this for Brown sugar and cookies…works great!

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   Alli January 6, 2017 at 6:52 pm MST

   Yes, this works wonders! I’ve been doing this my whole life thanks to my grandmother.

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   Nikki January 6, 2017 at 6:53 pm MST

   My mom always did the bread slice for cookies!

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    Catie January 6, 2017 at 6:56 pm MST

    I do this in brown sugar as well…never thought about doing it in cookies

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    Dee January 6, 2017 at 6:57 pm MST

    That is cool. Thanks for sharing!!

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    micnic January 6, 2017 at 6:58 pm MST

    You can also just eat them all then keeping them fresh isnt an issue! Wa-laa lol

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  Trish January 6, 2017 at 8:24 pm MST

  😂

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    Cg January 6, 2017 at 6:58 pm MST

    Cookies never last long enough in our house for this trick 😂

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  Whitney January 6, 2017 at 7:39 pm MST

  Right! My immediate thoughts as well 😂

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    Gretchen January 6, 2017 at 7:04 pm MST

    Too bad it doesn’t also work for a loaf of bread! LOL!

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  Lori January 6, 2017 at 7:46 pm MST

  Wouldn’t that be great, lol!

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    Shannon January 6, 2017 at 7:31 pm MST

    You can also do this with brown sugar. It will turn it soft again!

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    bitty January 6, 2017 at 7:36 pm MST

    Wow, thanks for the tip!

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    Diana January 6, 2017 at 7:44 pm MST

    Thank you!

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    Sam January 6, 2017 at 7:44 pm MST

    Has anyone tried this trick with shortbread cookies? I love my short bread cookies to be crunchy and am afraid that if I put a slice of bread in the cookie jar, my cookies might turn out soft later. Any idea of this? Thank you!

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  Erin January 6, 2017 at 8:08 pm MST

  If you want your shortbread to stay crisp, don’t add bread (or apple, or marshmallows, or anything else to draw out or infuse moisture). You’re better off freezing it. Not only does freezing them keep cookies fresh (crispy ones stay crispy and soft ones stay soft–if you allow them to thaw before eating), but they taste even better for some reason. My college roommate’s father used to send her cookies all the time, and she kept them in the freezer. They were always amazing right from the freezer, though you could let them thaw, too. My husband started doing this again recently, though maybe it’s more to keep the kids out of the cookies. 😉

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  Kristy January 6, 2017 at 8:20 pm MST

  I need to do this to keep ME out of the cookies 😔

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  Erin January 6, 2017 at 8:27 pm MST

  Doesn’t work if you know they’re there! (And if you know how delicious frozen cookies are!) 🙂

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    Janine January 6, 2017 at 7:45 pm MST

    Wow! Thanks for this cool hip tip!

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    Erin January 6, 2017 at 7:59 pm MST

    This also works with a slice of apple–the cookies draw the moisture out of the apple, keeping them soft.

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  Kristy January 6, 2017 at 8:21 pm MST

  A whole apple? Or slices?

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  Erin January 6, 2017 at 8:32 pm MST

  A slice in each package/container of cookies. Just replace as the apple slices shrivel up. Note: neither bread nor apple slices keep cookies *fresh*; they only keep them soft. I prefer freezing cookies, which keeps them fresh and soft (or crispy, depending on the cookie variety).

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    Frances January 6, 2017 at 8:20 pm MST

    Great tip!! Thank u!! I do this (put either a slice of bread or a large marshmallow) in the container with my brown sugar to keep my brown sugar from getting hard as a rock… but I never thought of doing this to keep cookies soft!! Great idea!! Thanks!!

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    Crystalsnow January 6, 2017 at 8:24 pm MST

    This is the same reason why you can’t mix soft baked package cookies with harder varieties. The soft ones beonlinee hard and the hard ones beonlinee soft! Lol

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    Katie January 6, 2017 at 8:43 pm MST

    Bread also helps if you accidentally over-bake your cookies and they’re a little hard. The bread will soften them up, but I try to keep the bread from touching the cookies or at least from laying directly on one if I can, because where it touches a cookie will get too soft.

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  Stacy January 6, 2017 at 9:08 pm MST

  Exactly what I do too. If they get too hard I do this then they are perfect by morning. And agree on. It letting them touch. I put a piece of wax paper over the slices then layer in my cookies on top of the wax paper.

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    Kati January 6, 2017 at 8:56 pm MST

    If you add a teaspoon of corn syrup to your dough your cookies will stay soft and not taste like bread.

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    Laurie January 6, 2017 at 8:57 pm MST

    They also make these little dandies for ppl like me who don’t always have bread on hand, or want that “bread” taste (or crumbs) to transfer to whatever I’m softening. $3.99 add-on item on Amazon. You just soak the bear (made of Terra cotta) in water first, dry it off a bit, and place into a container with whatever you want to soften. You can also bake the bear, and put it into a container to draw moisture out of something. Magic! 😉
    Brown Sugar Bear Original Brown Sugar Saver and Softener, Terracotta https://www.amazon.online/dp/B000MT65BC/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_zxgCybNMJRDD2

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  Erin January 7, 2017 at 6:56 am MST

  Wow! I have a couple of these and I had no idea there are so many uses beyond brown sugar. I knew about hte bread and apple tricks but never thought about using these for anything other than brown sugar! Thanks so much!

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    Jaime January 6, 2017 at 9:05 pm MST

    Here is a cute cookie story….,,My dad’s favorite cookies are peanut butter. My mom is always on a diet and has trouble with sweets. So my dad knew my mom doesn’t like watermelon. He put a container of PB cookies in the deep freezer with the tag watermelon in it. (??like who freezes watermelon, right?!?). My dad got away with sneaking down to get a cookie, for s month or two until my mom decided to clean out old food from freezer. She saw watermelon and thought what the….She discovered my dad’s stash. 2 years later we still giggle and laugh..

    I have since done the same thing when I have gotten good deals on oreos and candy. I placed them in a cardboard box with the word “meat” on it.

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  Justine January 6, 2017 at 9:47 pm MST

  That’s clever and hilarious!

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    Stacy January 6, 2017 at 9:05 pm MST

    I do this every single time I make cookies just did it today in fact. Sometimes when I gift cookies I forget to tell the person and I always laugh wondering what they think when they see the bread! Oh and I took cookies to work one day and when I went to grab the empty container at the end of the day I noticed one of the pieces of bread had a bite out of it! Lol. That was like 5-6 yrs ago and I still laugh to this day wondering g who did it, why they put it back after they took a bite and what they thought of my “cookies”!! Lol.

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    Nl January 6, 2017 at 9:08 pm MST

    Have always done this. It works great!

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    Kristy January 6, 2017 at 9:35 pm MST

    This does work, I learned it from my grandpa, but for some reason his cookies didn’t taste like the bread, mine do. And unfortunately it is far, far too late to ask what he did differently. So Instead I prefer to freeze cookie dough and just bake what I want. Then I can easily have a fresh cookie, but it also tastes fresh. =)

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  Erin January 7, 2017 at 7:06 am MST

  He probably didn’t do anything differently. Taste buds change over time. Most kids are going register sugar rather than the bread flavor.

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    Anu January 6, 2017 at 9:54 pm MST

    Nice! I didn’t know this tip. Thanks for sharing

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    MomofTwins January 6, 2017 at 9:57 pm MST

    Who has cookies last longer than two days? Oh wait, maybe it’s just my house that eats them all up that quickly. lol

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    Crystal Holgate January 7, 2017 at 12:53 am MST

    I’ve done this too. Works great! Even works if you don’t add the bread in right Away after you package them. Another time that’s good to add the bread is if you buy in a container but the lid didn’t close right and they are almost “stale”, the bread will bring them back to the right texture. Also great if you slightly overbake them. I also put the bread on a piece of parchment paper in the container so that it’s not laying directly on any of the cookies.

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    Tammy January 7, 2017 at 6:38 am MST

    Great tip!

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    Julia January 7, 2017 at 11:30 am MST

    My Mom used to do this. The cookies stayed soft but it affected the taste of the cookies. Wasn’t worth it. A better idea is just to freeze them and take them out as needed.

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    Tracey January 7, 2017 at 1:38 pm MST

    This is how I have sent cookies to my favorite soldier and now airman for years. I include a note instructing the recipient to snag a fresh slice of bread from the mess hall to soften any hard cookies.

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    Ada January 7, 2017 at 1:58 pm MST

    Does anyone have a good recipe for sugar cookies or cookies that will keep the shape of the cutting forms while backing and after??? And be able to decorate with icing? I would like to make some for my daughter’s bday (ice skates & snow flakes) … unfortunately, what I did for Christmas was a mess 😩 HELP!!!
    Thank you!!!

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