Suggestions for homemade cookies that will be shipped across the world

kshama2001

What cookies travel well? Am shipping homemade cookies from the US to the Middle East. Recipient is not picky.

I'm good at packaging. I anticipate a long travel time so am wondering what doesn't get stale or break up easily.

springlering62

My youngest lives in Europe. Packages to her are taking much, much longer than usual, presumably for quarantine or some such reason.

Bear in mind there may be extra transit time involved.

Ironically, stuff I’ve ordered via Etsy from Russia and Eastern Europe has come pretty darn fast. 🤷🏻‍♀️

kshama2001

Here's some cookie porn not currently behind a paywall:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/dining/christmas-cookies.html

amart4224

I lived ~800 miles away from my parents for about a decade and my mom liked to send me care packages with homemade cookies. The kind that held up best in the mail were no-bakes. More "typical" cookies like chocolate chip or peanut butter usually arrived in many small pieces. Not that I complained!

Luke_rabbit

Here's some ideas:

https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/12/16-cookie-recipes-for-holiday-care-packages.html

https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/treats-to-mail/

Hope they help.

missysippy930

Bars
Russian tea cakes
Spritz

Use packaging bubble wrap to protect your baked goods, and sturdy boxes.

springlering62

This is a family favorite, and tastes better as it gets older. Although tbh it generally doesn’t make it more than a few days at the best of times. Easily doubled if you have two baking sheets.

Chill the dough before you press it out.

I use pecan meal with a dash of roughly ground salt instead of chopped nuts for the topping.

springlering62

And be prepared for sticker shock. Our parcel to Europe a couple of weeks ago cost $155.64 in postage. Normally we’d bring her a suitcase of food from home. Damn covid.

cmriverside

Please to send trial package to me at cmriverside, 3423 Yumm Place, TinyCity, PNW.

Thank you.

I will eat crumbs with no shame.

yirara

Keep in mind that fresh produce cannot be sent to a lot of countries. Which includes self-made cookies. Also, the Middle East has some strict rules with regards to pork products and alcohol. I''m not sure if self-made cookies would get through customs bth.

Btw, you're not allowed to send things that are not packaged in a commercial packaging and don't have a best by date below 6 months to the US either.

kshama2001

springlering62 wrote: »

And be prepared for sticker shock. Our parcel to Europe a couple of weeks ago cost $155.64 in postage. Normally we’d bring her a suitcase of food from home. Damn covid.

yirara wrote: »

Keep in mind that fresh produce cannot be sent to a lot of countries. Which includes self-made cookies. Also, the Middle East has some strict rules with regards to pork products and alcohol. I''m not sure if self-made cookies would get through customs bth.

Btw, you're not allowed to send things that are not packaged in a commercial packaging and don't have a best by date below 6 months to the US either.

Thanks! I'm shipping via military mail (APO) so don't think any of that applies.

littlegreenparrot1

I sent gingerbread biscuits from the UK to Iraq (also military) a couple of times.
Made sure they were well packed in a box so they didn't move around.

They took a couple of weeks to get there I think, but were fine. Or at least brother never said they weren't, he would have scoffed them anyway

kshama2001

Thanks all! Right now I'm thinking gingersnaps, rum balls, and maybe the toffee squares. I will definitely need to do a test run of those

I'm going to do that for the person overseas but am not really into making cookies this year for the rest of my list - bread a la "Flour Water Salt Yeast" is my thing ATM. Anyone know if those ship well?

This is Field Blend # 2 with some Guinness, olives and caraway seeds:

PAPYRUS3

springlering62 wrote: »

This is a family favorite, and tastes better as it gets older. Although tbh it generally doesn’t make it more than a few days at the best of times. Easily doubled if you have two baking sheets.

Chill the dough before you press it out.

I use pecan meal with a dash of roughly ground salt instead of chopped nuts for the topping.

It sure looks like a well loved recipe.😉 Looks like many of my well used recipes too lol! Sounds very yummy

yirara

kshama2001 wrote: »

Thanks all! Right now I'm thinking gingersnaps, rum balls, and maybe the toffee squares. I will definitely need to do a test run of those

I'm going to do that for the person overseas but am not really into making cookies this year for the rest of my list - bread a la "Flour Water Salt Yeast" is my thing ATM. Anyone know if those ship well?

This is Field Blend # 2 with some Guinness, olives and caraway seeds:

Yummy! Even if it's for military and takes a somewhat different route: please don't send rumballs. they will, together with the rest get confiscated and destroyed, and your lad could get into problems. The same for everything containing pork products (bit more difficult to test unless it's meat) or anything related to Israel.

springlering62

I’ll take a loaf if you run out of recipients.

ReenieHJ

If rum balls are out, they have a ton of other different kinds of ball cookies, like Buckeyes, that might ship well. My cookies never make it too far so have no idea what'd ship best. Actually 1 year I made a whole bunch of Jim Jams, which are simply 2 molasses cookies sandwiched with rasp. jam. I made the cookies and wrapped a jar of rasp. jam in bubble wrap, voila. They get yummy chewy soft within a day or so of being sandwiched; hence sending the jam separate.