How to keep cookies fresh in a tin

Keep the lid on

Air is what changes a cookie, so close the tin after every slice. A tin with a tight lid does most of the work for you.

Where to keep the tin

Somewhere cool and dry. A cupboard away from the stove and the window is right; the top of the fridge is warm, so it is not. In a Chennai monsoon or a Bengaluru summer, pick the coolest cupboard in the house.

Should cookies go in the fridge?

Plain cookies, no. The fridge dries them out, and they pick up smells from the food around them.

A cookie with a cream cheese layer, like our Red Velvet, is the exception. Eat it within 24 hours of baking, and if it has to wait a few hours on a hot day, the fridge is the safer place for it.

How long cookies last in a tin

• Our Nutella and Biscoff tins: up to two days with the lid on.
• Our Red Velvet tin: the same day, because of the cream cheese.
• Plain cookies from a home oven: a few days in a closed tin.
• Packaged biscuits once opened: they go soft within days unless the packet is sealed again or tipped into a tin.

Keep soft and crisp cookies apart

A soft cookie gives off moisture and a crisp one soaks it up, so if you store them together, both end up somewhere in between. Use separate tins, or eat the crisp ones first.

Bringing a cookie back to life

Take a slice or a cookie out of the tin and warm it on a plate for 8 to 10 seconds in the microwave. Never put the tin itself in the microwave; it is metal.

For cookies that have gone hard, there is an old trick: put a slice of bread in the closed tin overnight. The cookies take moisture from the bread and soften. Take the bread out the next day.

What to do with the empty tin

Wash it in warm soapy water and dry it completely before you store anything in it, because a damp tin can rust. After that it will hold spices, buttons or letters, or the next batch of cookies.

Need a new one to fill? Our cookie tins come in four flavours, and in Bangalore they are delivered the same day.

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