I have to make my first cookie bouquet and it's being picked up thursday morning. (my first *paid* anything!... maybe i'll get some more 'orders' from this one!) i work at my regular job (cleaning teeth....) 50+ hours/week, and i usually do all my projects after work, like the night before.... just wondering if this is necessary, or if the cookies will be fresh if i package them (individual cello bags tied with ribbon) and put the bouquet together like, .... today? never made them this far in advance, and they don't ususally last that long sitting on my kitchen table.. (we like our cookies, lol!)
any advice would be helpful! TIA!
I've made cookies a week in advance and, as long as they're packaged, they will be just fine.
I've made sugar cookies and kept them stored in tight, tight tupperware-brand only, layered wax paper in-between, and frozen even just for a few days before decorating. They tasted just-baked fresh.
When I've left them in the same tupperware container out on the counter for a week, they still tasted great but unfortunately the 'just-baked' flavor didn't last but a few days after that.
HTH!
Also remember that we quickly become Cookie Snobs because we are used to sampling our cookies straight from the oven. I'm to the point that I wont' eat any of my OWN cookies if they are more than 24 hours old, because to me they taste terrible! But that's because I'm used to them still warm, straight from the oven. Everyone else tells me they are still fabulous days down the road .... but not to me.
It's like how we see all the flaws on our cookie/cake decors ... but everyone else thinks they are beautiful.
good point, indydebi! and my 'customer' won't be too picky... she's my grandma! (my biggest fan, and the most supportive person i know!) i always insist she doesn't pay, but this is for her to give someone else, her best friend who i have grown up with, so i just want to make sure they're okay. i have frozen un-decorated cookies, and iced them later, but have never decorated them ahead of time.
Also remember that we quickly become Cookie Snobs because we are used to sampling our cookies straight from the oven.
Point well taken!!!
I've tossed more cookies because I think they are "stale"!
When I was doing 100 dozen a week for the car dealership, I would end up with what I referred to as "overbakes" at the end of the week. I would take those in to my co-workers. To me, they were no longer good enough to sell to a customer, but my co-workers scarfed them down in no time! (I was finally asked not to send the announcement email until at least 8:00 ... because those who came in later in the morning never got any of them!)
When I was doing 100 dozen a week for the car dealership, I would end up with what I referred to as "overbakes" at the end of the week. I would take those in to my co-workers. To me, they were no longer good enough to sell to a customer, but my co-workers scarfed them down in no time! (I was finally asked not to send the announcement email until at least 8:00 ... because those who came in later in the morning never got any of them!)
my wonderful ladies at work are the same way! every monday morning, they ask what kind of 'accidents' 'mistakes' 'leftovers' or 'experiments' i have for them!
I went to a cookie demonstration that Penny McConnell had a couple of years ago. Her recipe (Penny's Cookies here on CC) is great.
She said that they make so many cookies that they would bake them 3 months ahead of time. I've never done that and they've never lasted that long around here anyway. She used to (or maybe still does) bake all of Starbucks cookies.
I baked some chocolate sugar cookies about 2 weeks ago. We ate most of them but there were a few left the other day. I took a bit out of one and like Indy says, the fresh baked taste was gone. It was still good, but not the same as fresh.
I'm a cookie snob too.
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