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One Badass Cookie - Wrapping Up Baked Goods as Gifts
- by Nancy, December 19, 2008
Too bad an empty box does not have the same allure as it did when we were two years old. I guess I’ll have to fill them with cookies before I mail them out! Read on for One Badass Cookie’s inexpensive yet beautiful way to package baked goods for gifts (and with some recycling too!) These boxes cost about 89 cents each, or, you can do what I did, which was ask my local CVS manager if I could just have the one on the right after they had unpacked and left it in a pile on the floor of the store. Lucky find! And free . . . That’s one badass way to snag a deal.
Lined boxes are not that much fun either without the cookies, but I like to line mine with waxed paper first to keep the buttery cookies from staining the boxes.
For mailing I wrap the individual kinds of cookies in inexpensive clear cellophane bags (acid free and archival ones double for me as wrappings for my handmade art cards too) and tie with curling ribbons, available at most discount stores for about a buck a package. Individual bags like this helps keep the cookies fresh enroute. If you’re not mailing them, you can just stack them in pretty rows inside the waxed paper lined boxes. I sometimes stick gifts in with the cookies, like pix of my son or in the one on the right, a Zagat guide. Here are the boxes loaded up ready for their outer wrapping.
Don’t these look great? A dramatic and beautiful presentation from recycled boxes, inexpensive waxed paper, ordinary curling ribbon, stickers, and clear cellophane wrapping paper, and on the box on the right, a recycled greeting card for a tag (just cut off the front of greeting cards you get and punch a hole in the top - it’s as easy as that to save money and the planet.)
Got a badass cookie recipe or baking tip for Laura and Nancy? Send it to us, we’ll test it out and if it’s badass enough, we’ll post it as a reader’s recipe or tip and you’ll win a prize of Nancy’s book.
see also: One Badass Cookie - Ginger Molasses Cookie
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