When one bakes cookies taking so much pain, the whole house is filled with its aroma. It is but natural, that we want the cookies to keep fresh longer. Below is a simple trick.
Preserving all those delectable qualities
of fresh cookies is not so easy, so much so that many recipes will
advise that you only bake as many cookies as you can eat and freeze the
rest of the dough. Well, we tried that, and while this approach
certainly works, it creates a series of messes in the kitchen and
requires that you spend at least 20-30 minutes prepping, baking, and
cleaning up every time you’re craving cookies. And that's not ideal, to
say the least.
How to keep homemade cookies fresh for days
For this trick, you’ll need a sturdy, airtight food container (or
sealable bag) to fit all your cookies and a slice of bread. In order to
understand how this trick works, you’ll need to understand why cookies
taste stale and hard. To put it simply, cookies simply dry out. This
moisture loss happens when you leave cookies on the counter, but it’s
going to occur even faster in the dry, cold environment in the fridge.
This is where a slice of bread can be
really helpful. Fresh bread essentially acts as a sponge: it contains
quite a lot of moisture itself, but it’s able to pull moisture from the
air too. When the bread sits near the quick-drying cookies, it will
share moisture with the baked goods, leaving them as soft and buttery as
they were when they first came out of the oven.
Make sure to use a good airtight container or a resealable bag to store
the cookies. Air exposure will make your cookies stale, so this trick
doesn’t work without a sealable box or bag. As for the bread itself,
stale bread works for this trick too, but it’s better to use fresh white
bread, as it has a neutral taste and a bit more moisture.
How long can you expect your cookies to
last? This will depend on your container, but you can expect them to
stay fresh for around a week (even though, in my experience, cookies are
gone long before the weekly mark).