Ways to package cookies for postage

This is a guest post by Cate Brickell from Life Behind the Purple Door

I love baking biscuits for the holiday season. But with family and friends living far away, we often end up with huge piles of cookies hidden away in the cupboards. It was only a few years ago that it occurred to me that, with a bit of thought, it would be easy to send cookies in the post to my family!

Now, it would be really easy to send cookies in a plastic box. They’re air tight, the biscuits will stay fresh, they won’t get crushed. But it looks boring. (Even if you could find the ribbon stash to wrap something around it.)

It doesn’t cost a lot of money to ensure your biscuits are well protected. A quick look in the cupboards and I found cardboard ice cream containers (plastic ones would work, too); milo tins and chip containers. Just be aware that cookies travel best if they’re jam-packed into the container, so the bigger the container, the more cookies inside, the heavier it will be to post.

My favourite way to send cookies is in a small hot chocolate tube.

A quick wrap around with Christmas paper or scrapbooking paper, and the tube is transformed into the best method for sending biscuits to family and friends. My sister loves getting my cookies each year; she’s already asking when they’ll arrive this year!

The recipe for these biscuits can be found here.

About Cate

{life behind the purple door} is where Cate blogs about creating family adventure, focusing on the everyday stuff of life with five kids.

Telling her stories with photos and words, Cate shares the good and the bad of teenagers and toddlers and the struggles of a mum trying to find balance between kids and self.

Cate can often be found on pinterest or facebook and sometimes shares photos on Instagram. Twitter is a completely weird creature.

More Biscuit Recipes

CRUNCHY CHOCOLATE CHIP CORNFLAKE COOKIES – An old favourite, crunchy chocolate chip cornflake cookies, great to fill up the kids lunchbox or an after school snack. View recipe here.

RICE BUBBLE CHOCOLATE CHIP BISCUITS – A bubbly and colourful biscuit recipe the kids will enjoy making and eating! View recipe here.

100+ COOKIES FROM 1 MIX – Dozens of cookies all at once, this will make a lot of cookies to give as gifts. View recipe here.