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I want to send some regular chocolate chip cookies via mail. It would take approx 3 days (2 min, 4 max I'd say) since sent, to get there. Temperatures can get hot now but it's not urgent so I can wait until the weather has a daily max of 26º C, which is nicer than 40. Dry weather sending, currently unknown if dry or humid weather receiver.

I have read about the same topic regarding cookies and cheese, and some external sites like Land o Lake, how to ship cookies and from better home and gardens as well.

I have the feeling I am not understanding how moisture works or affects cookies depending on the material used. I thought aluminium foil was used mainly for temperature "insulation", and plastic film wrap to keep moisture/not drying out. Depending on the site of the links above, some mention aluminium foil, others plastic wrap and also "either of them".

I would say that as long as cookies are not VERY dry, they´ll be fine texturewise. The oils inside the cookie and chocolate chips might also help. Before reading the articles, I would have wrapped them in plastic wrap, and wrapped that in aluminium foil.

Does wrapping cookies in aluminium foil only, differ on conservation than on plastic wrap only? Is using both or only 1 a good idea depending on the weather conditions?

(I did not add the preservation tag as it is not for long-term, would it be food safety?).

M.K
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    It’s probably been a decade since I’ve mailed cookies, and it was generally in December when the temperature were cooler, but I seem to recall that my issue was more about trying to keep them from bouncing around in the package so they came through in reasonable shape. I think that I put them on a paper plate, wrapped it in foil, added some extra padding (crushed paper? Recycled bubble wrap?) then put it into a box that it fit snugly inside. – Joe Aug 21 '23 at 18:16
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    One of my neighbors in college got cookies from home which were shipped in a box full of popcorn - that gave them stable packing that was also an additional, slightly cookie-infused treat. If you bagged the cookies I suppose the popcorn could be non-cookie-infused or flavored some other way. I recall them being shipped loose in the popcorn (said college neighbor shared...) – Ecnerwal Aug 22 '23 at 13:49
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    I would pack them in a tightly sealed tin, with parchment paper and perhaps a bag of silica inside, and the tin would go in a mailer box with some kind of loose pack like bubble wrap. The tins are pretty and useful, as nice as fresh cookies anyway. I am assuming the cookie is some kind of shortbread rather than some fluffy leavened doughy cookie. – AdamO Aug 22 '23 at 19:00

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