How Long Do Homemade Cookies Stay Fresh?

We checked our unfilled, uniced cookies daily for three days in kraft boxes. Here is what stayed moist, what we have not tested, and how we judge freshness.

Our three-day, real-kitchen freshness check after our fall pop-up.

In our own three-day checks, our unfilled and uniced cookies stayed moist and enjoyable in kraft boxes. This is a quality observation from our batches, not a universal shelf-life or food-safety promise.

A pumpkin snickerdoodle baked on Saturday for our Sunday fall pop-up still tasted freshly made when we ate it on Tuesday. We still love a cookie most about ten minutes out of the oven.

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