How long will cookies keep?

[la79al]

Just found out the Christmas dinner planned for today is being postponed due to illness. Of course this is the part of the family that usually does a treat exchange so I've got 7 sets of cookies and candy bagged and ready to go. How long will this stuff last? I know the dinner will not be until at least next Saturday, if not later. Should I just find a new home for the stuff?

 

[plummer925]

Stick them in the freezer - cookies freeze well - take them out the evening before the party. They will DEFINITELY be stale a week from now if you leave them out!

 

[mrssmith06]

Yeah they will not be good by then. I would try freezing them or just make something fresh before then.

 

[bdcp]

Freeze them. I always freeze my Christmass cookies when I make them because I start 3 weeks before. They freeze great.

 

[Judique]

Just found out the Christmas dinner planned for today is being postponed due to illness. Of course this is the part of the family that usually does a treat exchange so I've got 7 sets of cookies and candy bagged and ready to go. How long will this stuff last? I know the dinner will not be until at least next Saturday, if not later. Should I just find a new home for the stuff?

I agree about freezing your cookies - not sure about the candy. What kind of candy is it? Can you separate it out and freeze just the cookies? Perhaps the candy will be find just kept in a cool place, and wrapped to keep air out.

 

[disneychrista]

Anyway you could hand out the treats now and just do the dinner when ever it is?

 

[DisneyWorld Delight]

Freezing is a good idea.

But, I wanted to share a trick I learned last year and used this year.
I made at least 150 peanut butter blossoms (seems to be everyone's favorite and soooo easy). After they were completely set and cooled (overnight) I put them in Christmas tins and put a piece of bread in it. Actually half a piece. The bread gets stale but the cookies do not! I did this with the icing cookies also. They kept for over a week, finally ran out of cookies today.

 

[UrsulaGirl]

Freezing is a good idea.

But, I wanted to share a trick I learned last year and used this year.
I made at least 150 peanut butter blossoms (seems to be everyone's favorite and soooo easy). After they were completely set and cooled (overnight) I put them in Christmas tins and put a piece of bread in it. Actually half a piece. The bread gets stale but the cookies do not! I did this with the icing cookies also. They kept for over a week, finally ran out of cookies today.

Great tip! I will have to try this.

 

[mhsjax]

Freezing is a good idea.

But, I wanted to share a trick I learned last year and used this year.
I made at least 150 peanut butter blossoms (seems to be everyone's favorite and soooo easy). After they were completely set and cooled (overnight) I put them in Christmas tins and put a piece of bread in it. Actually half a piece. The bread gets stale but the cookies do not! I did this with the icing cookies also. They kept for over a week, finally ran out of cookies today.

I have heard about this. I do have a question, the cookies, are they the kind with the Kiss on top? If so, just how many tins did you need, my kisses always get smushed unless I lay them flat. Maybe I just don't let them cool enough.

 

[BonnieA]

I've made cookies for sale and gifts for over 40 yrs. Freezing is your friend.
They will still be fresh months from now. Thaw before serving, or not, they are still good.

 

[anelson81993]

Since you're not sure when the Christmas dinner will occur, I'd say freeze. The candies **should** freeze--I know from experience that peanut butter balls (or whatever they're called in your neck of the woods), all types of cookies (including the ones with the kiss on the top and iced sugar cookies), peanut clusters, pretzel rods/chocolate dipped pretzels, and Oreo cookie balls all freeze well.

As far as the kiss-cookies-in-the-tin question, at our house we make them with chocolate stars, but I assume it's a similar principle. If you don't want them smushed, I'd give them at least four-five hours to cool and set enough to stack (maybe more). Or, we let them cool in a cooler part of the house, such as the basement or the garage, since it seems like cookies just don't cool as well or as quickly in a hot kitchen, especially with the oven on and lots of baking and cooking going on.

 

[mhsjax]

Since you're not sure when the Christmas dinner will occur, I'd say freeze. The candies **should** freeze--I know from experience that peanut butter balls (or whatever they're called in your neck of the woods), all types of cookies (including the ones with the kiss on the top and iced sugar cookies), peanut clusters, pretzel rods/chocolate dipped pretzels, and Oreo cookie balls all freeze well.

As far as the kiss-cookies-in-the-tin question, at our house we make them with chocolate stars, but I assume it's a similar principle. If you don't want them smushed, I'd give them at least four-five hours to cool and set enough to stack (maybe more). Or, we let them cool in a cooler part of the house, such as the basement or the garage, since it seems like cookies just don't cool as well or as quickly in a hot kitchen, especially with the oven on and lots of baking and cooking going on.

Thanks, I will try the cooling idea. Problem is, in Florida there usually isn't a cool part of the house, well not at Christmas. Our cold comes in Jan and Feb. lol Guess I will just have to eat them as I bake them.. Problem solved.

 

[afnaechiquita]

Freezing is a good idea.

But, I wanted to share a trick I learned last year and used this year.
I made at least 150 peanut butter blossoms (seems to be everyone's favorite and soooo easy). After they were completely set and cooled (overnight) I put them in Christmas tins and put a piece of bread in it. Actually half a piece. The bread gets stale but the cookies do not! I did this with the icing cookies also. They kept for over a week, finally ran out of cookies today.

I do this whenever mailing cookies. They're never stale when they reach the other side!

 

[kwelch10377]

Freezing is a good idea.

But, I wanted to share a trick I learned last year and used this year.
I made at least 150 peanut butter blossoms (seems to be everyone's favorite and soooo easy). After they were completely set and cooled (overnight) I put them in Christmas tins and put a piece of bread in it. Actually half a piece. The bread gets stale but the cookies do not! I did this with the icing cookies also. They kept for over a week, finally ran out of cookies today.

I did the bread thing this year with my cookies and it worked great. I replaced the stale piece of bread with a new piece after a week and 2 weeks laters the cookies still taste really fresh and the ones that should be soft still are.

 

[4HppyCamprs]

I did the bread thing this year with my cookies and it worked great. I replaced the stale piece of bread with a new piece after a week and 2 weeks laters the cookies still taste really fresh and the ones that should be soft still are.

That is amazing and thanks for sharing!

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[DisneyWorld Delight]

I have heard about this. I do have a question, the cookies, are they the kind with the Kiss on top? If so, just how many tins did you need, my kisses always get smushed unless I lay them flat. Maybe I just don't let them cool enough.

I stack them in a tin. Gently, not heavily or smooshed. I let them cool overnight for sure. They're spread all over my kitchen, I just slide the foil they baked on right off the baking sheet after they cool for about 10 min on a cooling rack.

So cooling rack.
Then all over kitchen overnight.
Kisses stay attached to cookie and you can stack.