How To Keep Cookies Fresh

After all that perfect chocolate chip cookie baking, what’s the use when your batch goes stale in a matter of days? Cookies are great out of the oven, but biting into a hard crumbly mass later in the week is no fun. That’s why you need to understand the science of cookie osmosis, or How to Keep Cookies Fresh.

The trick is simple: place a slice of fresh bread in with your cookies a day or two after you’ve baked them, or whenever you find their texture has deteriorated. The moisture from the fresh bread will migrate to your cookies, rendering them soft and chewable again. It will literally unstaleify them!

**Tip** I reccomend wrapping the cookies in paper towel which diffuses the water a bit more and prevents the near-the-bread cookies from becoming mush.