Shipping Cookie Bouquets: How I Do It..
Baking By rezzygirl Updated 9 Feb 2007 , 5:56am by momsandraven
Great pictures. I will remember this if I ever ship a cookie bouquet.
Do you shrink wrap the cookies individually and then also as a bouquet? Have you ever had a cookie break during the shrink wrap process? Also, do you find the shrink wrap keeps the cookies fresher or about the same as cello bags? Finally, do you use a special kind of shrink wrap. I bought some, but it seems way too stiff for cookies - I think it must be for wrapping basket of cosmetics, etc. Sorry for all of the questions, but I'm really interested in starting to shrink wrap my cookies individually - I was excited to see your post. Thank you.
wow, looks like you spent almost as much in packing materials as the customer spent on cookies! I hope my boxes of cookies arrived unbroken, I taped each cookie to the box then taped mini cups to the box like they do when they deliver pizza..lol
then packed with packing peanuts and then another board before I closed the box!
wow, looks like you spent almost as much in packing materials as the customer spent on cookies!
LOL..actually I'm kind of a packaging pack rat! Whenever I receive a package (usually supplies for my ebay store) I keep the packaging, so I hardly every spend extra $$$ for packaging and boxes. I got the idea of packing the cookies this way when I received a cookie bouquet from another company. So, I basically duplicated what they did.
Cello bags can be used for the cookies and regular ole saran wrap for the whole bouquet. Lots of crumpled paper can be used in place of the popcorn. Doesn't have to be expensive, just secure.
-Rezzy
Rezzy, by the way love your signature! you are so right!
I try to save some packing material but unfortunately space in my shop is at a premium, so..I do have acess to some packing material but not a lot..sob!
So I have to go buy..double sob..lol
But I have saved your pictures..dropped into a word document..and printed it and added to my "wall of instructions"..lol
Thanks so much for taking the time to share!
Why do you have to use cello bags or shrink wrap for individual cookies? I don't have those supplies and I'm just sending the bouquet to friends and I would rather they not have to struggle to cut open every cookie.
Wouldn't saran wrap stick to the cookie's decoration?I was thinking of just putting the cookies in individual cookie bags. Would this be wrong to do? Of course I would use bubble wrap and packing material.
Why do you have to use cello bags or shrink wrap for individual cookies? I don't have those supplies and I'm just sending the bouquet to friends and I would rather they not have to struggle to cut open every cookie.
Wouldn't saran wrap stick to the cookie's decoration?I was thinking of just putting the cookies in individual cookie bags. Would this be wrong to do? Of course I would use bubble wrap and packing material.
The shrink wrap/cello bags are to keep them fresh longer and also to protect them from easily breaking, especially if you have any intricate designs on them, they will not get scraped and knocked around.
The saran wrap suggestion was for wrapping the entire bouquet AFTER they have been individually wrapped (shrink or cello). I would NOT recommend saran wrap right onto the cookies (that would be a mess lol).
If you are going to use individual cookie bags, that sounds like it would be fine. Unless they are paper, they probably are cello or poly bags anyway. Same thing.
Also another reason to individually wrap them is because people like to display and touch the cookies for a while before eat them!
Another suggestion is you can use sandwich bags with the (bottom folds/zip cut off), with a nice ribbon they'll look fine and keep fresh longer.
-Rezzy
Well, I thought I had responded to this thread to save it but it looks as though I didn't 
so here is my ... save ... of this thread. LOL Thanks rezzy for sharing! I've been doing a variation of this method but will definitely be taking your advice of placing bubble wrap between the rows and around the whole bouquet. 
So I used the method of bubble-wrapping the bouquet. LOVED it! I had no worries about the cookies breaking for the first time.
Question: Do you include a note inside of the box on how to "unpackage" the bouquet?
I haven't done that but that is an excellent idea! I will be doing that from now on!
Oh cool. 
I'm glad I could help!
As I was packaging the bouquets and putting them in the boxes, I was thinking "hmmm, I wonder if they'll know how to undo all of this?" LOL. So I thought I would include a sheet of paper on how to unpackage the bouquet. I was thinking that it may have made me seem a little unprofessional but I guess not, huh 
?! Thanks rezzy, you've reassured me! 
Edited to add: I'm so happy you made your mini-tutorial into an article!
This is excellent! Thank you very much!! I am rapidly increasing my cookie portion of my business as word gets out that my cookies taste better than **you know who**'s cookies. I've had a couple of inquiries on shipping, and had to decline because I wasn't sure how to get them shipped safely. Now I will be armed & ready!
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