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How to Keep Homemade Cookies Fresh Longer!

May 7, 2012 By Heidi 6 Comments

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Keep your cookie monsters happy even longer with this trick for How to Keep Homemade Cookies Fresh Longer!

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Would you like to know How to keep Homemade Cookies Fresh Longer??

On the rare occasion that your fresh baked cookies actually have a chance of lasting through the night, I’ve got a tip to pass along that will help make sure you cookies stay as fresh as possible!

Following is a fabulous kitchen tip shared by frugal friend James …

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Keep Homemade Cookies Fresh Longer

“To keep homemade cookies soft and fresh longer, my Aunt used to place completely cooled cookies in a cookie jar {or you could use an airtight container}, and then just place a slice of fresh bread on top.  The bread will keep the cookies soft and fresh!  If there are still cookies left after a few days, you can toss the old dried out piece of bread with a new piece of bread!”

Who doesn’t love soft, moist cookies… and how easy is that?!? 😉

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Comments

  1. Cookietester says

    April 21, 2019 at 10:16 am

    To keep my cookies soft and close to as baked fresh, I add 1 teaspoon of organic cornstarch and 1/4 teaspoon of organic citric acid to each cup of flour. People can adjust those additives for their cookie recipes. I love making cookies but don’t eat many, my dough freezes extremely well and once baked, the cookies can be kept in a plastic container for up to a month. Occasionally I will eat a cookie at night if I have not eaten enough, so having some cookies sitting around is a benefit.

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  2. Phyllis Jobe says

    April 7, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    The bread really does work. I have used that for years. When I would send my boys in the Army cookies or brownies it worked great to keep them fresh until the boys got them.

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  3. Marlene Sowek says

    December 24, 2014 at 5:42 pm

    I always put a piece of wax paper the size of the bread slice under the bread. Since I live alone they don’t get eaten that fast. I found that just putting the bread on the cookies made the ones it was sitting on too soft & sometimes mushy and I had to literally scoop the cookies out that got that way. Of course, when my children were small they didn’t loast long enough to get hard.

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  4. Cj says

    May 23, 2012 at 9:37 am

    A piece of fresh apple works, too.

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    • Barbara says

      November 19, 2013 at 5:13 am

      I am sure that the bread put in to soften up or keep cookies soft works. If brown sugar gets hard, or to keep it from getting hard, put a slice of bread in the container and the brown sugar will always remain soft and ready to use.

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  5. Renee says

    May 7, 2012 at 6:42 am

    This really does work. I have also used this when cookies are bit overdone. It softens them up and we don’t have to throw them out.

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