Cookie Care Packages That Actually Survive the Mail: Recipes, Packing, and Timing

Cookie Care Packages That Actually Survive the Mail: Recipes, Packing, and Timing

A few years ago, my college roommate called me in tears — not sad tears, but the kind that come from laughing too hard. She had just opened the cookie care package ideas I’d spent an entire Sunday assembling: a beautiful tin of decorated sugar cookies, carefully wrapped in tissue paper, nestled in a Priority … Read more

How to Ship Homemade Cookies Without Breaking: My Packing Method After Mailing 200 Boxes

How to Ship Homemade Cookies Without Breaking: My Packing Method After Mailing 200 Boxes

A few years ago, my cousin called me in tears. She had ordered a box of my famous brown butter snickerdoodles as a birthday gift for her daughter in Portland — and they arrived as crumbs. Not broken cookies. Actual, sandy crumbs rattling around at the bottom of a crushed box. That moment crystallized exactly … Read more