This who bake early....how do you store your items?

I want to start baking later this week/weekend, but will it last?

I'm planning to make:
Chocolate-nut-dried fruit clusters
Chocolate pretzels
Cookies (oatmeal, thumbprints, pecan crescents)

Re: This who bake early....how do you store your items?

my family always keeps them in large tupperwares or cookie tins and leaves them in a cool place.

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I agree - cool place or freeze what you can.

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Ok....so they do stay fresh?

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Cookies will stay fresh for a couple weeks...just store each kind separately, and keep them in tins or shirt (gift) boxes lined with wax paper to avoid plastic. I even use my large stainless steel stock pots for storage, as long as the lids fit tightly.

I'd leave cookies with jelly until last...the jelly doesn't do justice to the cookie part after a few days.

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Oh...no plastic? So Tupperware/ziplock containers are bad to use?

What about chocolates? Room temperature?

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what about cakes too? Can you make those a couple of days in advance?

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Don't freeze anything that is chocolate covered, the chocolate turns that weird gray/whitish color.

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We put them in tupperware or metal tins with wax paper and keep them in the basement where it's cool. For oatmeal raisin cookies, I also make sure to put apple slices in the container....it's keeps them soft.

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I used to use those Danish cookie tins (they are metal, so not plastic) and totally line them with foil. Line the lid with foil and close it. Keep in a cool place.

Our family was able to keep them for a few weeks like this.

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Awesome tips!

Thank you all!!!

Re: This who bake early....how do you store your items?

Also, keep each type of cookie separate from other types. (The goey brownies will add moisture to the crisp snicker doodles and they won't be crispy anymore.)