Storing Cookies

Healthy Cookies

If you live in a dry climate, store crisp cookies in a loosely covered container.

Cookies with a high butterfat content will usually stay fresh for a week or longer in a tightly covered container.

Empty coffee cans make perfect storage (or transporting) containers for cookies.

When storing soft or decorated cookies, separate layers with sheets of waxed paper so they don't stick together.

Soft cookies will stay fresher, longer if they are stored with a slices of apple or a slice of bread (change the apple or bread slice every day).

Here's some interesting information about fats and cookies:

The fats most often used in cookies are butter, margarine, shortening and oil. Fats play a major role in the spread of your cookie. In other words, they help to determine if your cookie spreads out into a thin mass on the cookie sheet or pretty much keeps its original shape.
Shortening, margarine and spreads are fairly stable so they will help cookies keep their original unbaked shape.
Butter melts at a much lower temperature than the other solid fats, so cookies made with it will tend to spread out.
And oil, since it already is a liquid at room temperature, produces cookies that keep their shape.
The amount of fat also affects the cookies, and you can basically think of it this way: More fat equals flatter and chewier to crispier cookies. Less fat equals puffier and more cake-like cookies.