Suggestions for homemade cookies that will be shipped across the world

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kshama2001
kshama2001 Posts: 27,906 Member
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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.

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,473 Member
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    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
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,906 Member
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    Here's some cookie porn not currently behind a paywall:

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

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  • amart4224
    amart4224 Posts: 345 Member
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    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
    Luke_rabbit Posts: 1,031 Member
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    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
    missysippy930 Posts: 2,577 Member
    edited December 2020
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    Bars
    Russian tea cakes
    Spritz

    Use packaging bubble wrap to protect your baked goods, and sturdy boxes.
  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,473 Member
    edited December 2020
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    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.

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  • springlering62
    springlering62 Posts: 7,473 Member
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    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
    yirara Posts: 9,403 Member
    edited December 2020
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    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
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,906 Member
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    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
    littlegreenparrot1 Posts: 693 Member
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    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 :D
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 27,906 Member
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    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 :smiley:

    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:

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  • PAPYRUS3
    PAPYRUS3 Posts: 13,259 Member
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    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.

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    It sure looks like a well loved recipe.😉 Looks like many of my well used recipes too lol! Sounds very yummy
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,403 Member
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    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 :smiley:

    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:

    qh9u4odtygrx.jpeg

    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
    springlering62 Posts: 7,473 Member
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    I’ll take a loaf if you run out of recipients.
  • ReenieHJ
    ReenieHJ Posts: 9,724 Member
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    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.

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