An airtight container is key.

The Best Way To Store Cookies

It turns out, the best cookie storage methods vary.

Some people even re-warm them in an air fryer!

An assortment of cookies in a round tin box

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Drier cookies, such asshortbread, have a shorter shelf life.

Such cookies should be eaten within a few days.

Cookies in a paper box

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How Can You Tell When Cookies Are No Longer Good To Eat?

you might also judge a cookie’s staleness by textural changes.

For example, You know chewy cookies have gone bad when they have lost their chew.

And conversely, if drier cookies have become soft or are extremely crumbly, they have likely turned stale.

In fact, I have a hankering now.

Guess its time to make another batch of cookies!