Keeping your cookies soft

Wow I never thought of trying that, I guess the bread helps absorb / protect the cookies like a shield. Great tip, thanks! One thing I always like to do is to wrap the cookies in saran wrap and then put them in the tupperware, that always seems to help. Or sometimes I wrap the cookies in parchment paper, and then saran wrap and put them in a very dark place, they usually last 3 or 4 days that way. Actually something my grandmother used to do which I have done in the past (and I think it works well) is to sprinkle some water drops over the cookies and then wrap them tight in parchment paper and then kitchen foil. She also used to sprinkle water on the cookies before re-heating them for a few minutes, and that helped soften them up again. I hope this helps.

I have never thought of using bread to keep cookies soft. I use bread sometimes in the brown sugar if I am not using the brown sugar often enough to use it up soon. Bread keeps it from getting hard, so the idea that it would work with cookies makes sense. I have always just cut back on the amount of flour that is called for in the recipe and that helps keep the cookies softer longer. I've also tried not baking them the full amount of time, but it is difficult to tell when is a good time to remove them from the oven. I will definitely try the bread idea, however I don't normally buy bread because I don't eat it very often. But I am buying bread this week and I am planning on making cookies, so the timing couldn't be more perfect! Thanks for the tip.

This us something that my mom taught me when I was very young, it works wonders. Its really a simple concept, the cookies absorb the moisture out if the bread thereby making the bread hard and the cookies nice and soft. It works on many different things, anything that can be softened by moisture. Thanks for letting those that never heard if this before, now they can enjoy soft cookies for as long as they last, for some not long at all.

Great tip Marie. The bread also works for marshmallows and brown sugar that have hardened. Glad to know it works for cookies too. Gee we sure learn a lot here on myLot. Hugs

good day marie2052, that is one of a helpful idea. i should tell it to my sister since she likes to bake cookies much. however, just a bit of confusion into my mind, as you have said, "you have put a slice of bread at each end of the cookies", meaning i will put a small slice on top of each cookie? as you have said, at each end, is that what you mean? nevertheless, we will gonna try it here at our end.

Actually cookies with high ratio of sugar and liquid but low on fat will create a chewy quite soft cookies.The flour that you use will also affect the chewiness of the cookie strong flour or cookie doughs that developed gluten during mixing will end up in a chewy cookie but with a desirable chewiness. High amount of eggs also makes the cookie chewy =).

Great idea! I usually don't have trouble "keeping" them soft as much as I have the trouble of baking them soft in the first place! I have a thing from Melina Lee of a baking talk show and it says to add 1/4 cup (or wahtever the measurement is) of additional flour to the recipe and use brown instead of white sugar and that works sometimes. I just like (mostly) soft cookies, unless I intend them for dunking, then they need to be a little more "well done". But I found that the plastic containers dry them out where as a glass jar container...they don't. So that is what I do so I guess that is why I have not particularly had the "hard cookie" problem. But also..depending on your family...I mix up a batch of dough, and then drop the dough onto the cookie sheets and then FREEZE the dough balls (just put the cookie sheet in the freezer) when frozen... I bag them into freezer bags and put that in the freezer. WHen I want a few cookies... I take 6 dough balls out and bake the in the toaster oven and I have fresh baked cookies without the mess. This also helps in my only eating 6 instead of a dozen! And it is great in the summer time too....we want fresh baked cookies, but don't want to heat up the house with the oven! And it is nice to have a "tradition" handed down from grand parents isn't it? I have nothing from mine, didn't know them very well, so I am always trying to pass something down to my kids and grand kids. Hope they keep it going!

That is true you can use bread. I never thought about it but then again cookies don't last long enough in my house to even put them in a container of any sort.

I think I've heard of doing this, but I don't think it was with cookies but something else you use a slice of bread to absorb the moisture/oxygen in the container and then save the dried bread for bread crumbs. I love my soft and chewy cookies, I usually don't get to keep them around the house long usually as they are inhaled as fast as they com off the pan.

I don't do a lot of baking, but I do find that very interesting! I don't know why it would work, bu I think it is great that something will keep cookies soft. When cookies would be made in my house they would often be gone before they got cold, let alone hard! Have a great week!!!

Put a slice of bread to keep the cookies soft?? What a good idea. I haven't thought about it before. It is logic to think that it will absorb the moist from the bread and stay soft for a longer days. Thanks for that tips. I usually will put all my cookies in a jar and closed it tightly and yes they will soon get harder.(^^)(^^)

Mine normally stay soft when I just put some aluminum foil on them.

Thanks very much marie...What a great tip that everyone can use..You are right no matter how tightly sealed that tupperware is those darn little cookie still manage to get hard. Thanks for the tip...enjoy your night.

Sometimes I like to heat up my cookies before I eat them.. just a toaster oven is enough to do this. If the cookie isn't already too hard it will become soft and warm again, so delicious! Just be careful not to burn them (though I have never really had this problem). By following the other people's tips and trying this you should have some warm soft tasty cookies again!

When I was in high school I learned this tip and it works everytime. The girl in my class brought in a container of cookies she had baked this was for a presentation. In the inside of the container she had placed a piece of bread and told us why. I started doing that with my cookies and they never get stale. Its so gross when people have cookies and let them get stale and offer then to you to eat and you take one bite and think ick.

I´ll try it marie. Thanks for the tip. Maybe this way I will be able to make Christmas cookies ahead of time. Do you think this would make cupcakes last longer? I will take cupcakes for Christmas, but don´t know when to start baking.

That is a new hint to me. I had never neard that one. Of course, cookies usually never last long enough around here to get hard. My husband is a cookie fiend!

I have heard of things like that too. My grandmother on dad's side of the family used to put a piece of sliced apple in her cookie tins after she baked them, it worked like a charm as well.