<p>I sent S back to school at Easter with 9 cups of ‘puppy chow’. That is not the correct name but everyone here knows it as that. You take the chocolate Chex cereal, melt chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter, add vanilla and pour on the cereal. you then mix it all together and top with the powder sugar.
It is great stff, just don’t look at the box for the calorie count.</p>
<p>ebeeee-- I’ve got one of those no sweet eaters but he is overjoyed with shipments of oranges and/or grapefruit. Pittman and Davis is pretty reasonable but April is the last shipment of the year.
I’d love to be sending baked goodies too so I feel your pain.</p>
<p>blonde brownies…they stay moist for travel and disappear very quickly. oh and fit it a zip lock</p>
<p>glasses,
yeah I send beef jerky and trial mix but it just isn’t the same.</p>
<p>Re: packing cookies & brownies – if I’m feeling lazy or trying to get the goodies shipped out in a hurry, I use the disposable plastic containers, with wax paper all around so they don’t rattle around. But, since D has very little storage space and can’t really use any more containers, I’ve also had great success with taking a stack of 4-6 cookies/brownies and wrapping them in plastic wrap. I end up with a bunch of these little packets, which I put in a larger box along with whatever else I’m sending her. The real key is to pack the box absolutely full with newsprint, bubble wrap, or whatever so stuff doesn’t roll around and break. (We moved about 18 months ago, so have TONS of packing material.) I use UPS since I know for sure it’s 2 days to D’s school by ground.</p>
<p>I just tried out a new brownie recipe and will see how fast it goes stale–it was a big hit at my community meeting tonight.</p>
<p>ebeee- beef jerky is a great idea, thanks. I 'm gonna include some with my next box of almonds and pistachios.
I have been reduced to making biscuits for dog :-O</p>
<p>Pop or buy a big bag of cheap popcorn and use that to pack around the cookies. Good cushioning.</p>
<p>Make the toll house chocolate chip cookies recipe but spread out in a big jelly roll pan. Then cut into rectangles. Nice and crispy, travels well, and tastes great. Nothing like tollhouse cookies no matter what shape. I always pack a big disposable plastic container to share and a small one to keep for herself. BTW - the flat rate box fits the disposable containers well and I can pack other things around it. </p>
<p>One time I made a toll house cookie pizza on a disposable pizza pan. They had fun with that, too.</p>
<p>Bethievt - I want your recipe for the double chocolate cherry cookies - they sound great. </p>
<p>Puppy chow - that is one of my D’s favorites. It is addictive. I will definitely be making that for her when she leaves for college - sniff sniff.</p>
<p>This chocolate cookie recipe is from the Still Life with Moosewood cookbook and it calls for 2 tsp of peppermint extract, but my son was thinking I could leave that out and put in dried cherries–though he loves mint too.</p>
<p>1 cup butter
1 c brown sugar
1 granulated sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
3 c flour
1/2 c cocoa powder unsweetened
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 c chocolate chips (bittersweet)
2 c chopped nuts
dried cherries</p>
<p>Preheat oven to 350.
cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs, add vanilla.</p>
<p>Sift dry inredients and add choc chips, nuts, dried cherries etc. bake 12-15 minutes.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot guys. Now I have to go get some frozen otis spunkmeyer cookie dough out of the freezer and cook **myself **some cookies!</p>
<p>edit: darn darn darn you all! I have no cookie dough left. And now I really am craving warm cookies. Gonna go sulk.</p>
<p>Thanks Bethie - I like the addition of the cherries - makes it interesting.</p>
<p>…“Pop or buy a big bag of cheap popcorn and use that to pack around the cookies. Good cushioning…”</p>
<p>Great idea - and then they can either eat the popcorn, or feed it to the ducks…</p>
<p>swimcatsmom
you could do it the lazy way and order some up. Someone sent me some wonderful cookies from a hot cookie company nearby. Their slogan is “because you can’t eat flowers” 
Love that.</p>
<p>Last spring I sent the rice krispies with peanut butter/chocolate frosting bars in a Honey Nut Cheerios box, usining the leftover cereal for packing material around exam time. Moving him home I found the bars- son hadn’t wanted them but didn’t give them away and commented on the stale cereal… I remember why I don’t send care packages… BTW- you can freeze the Nestles cookies before AND after baking to have fresh tasting cookies when you shouldn’t finish the batch…</p>
<p>wis75,
I think your son is my son…LOL… commenting on the STALE cereal cracks me up… funny how they don’t all share… one might think we had starved them and they had to hoard their food, yes? </p>
<p>my son is now a senior, and he had left something home freshman year after his thanksgiving visit … and my hubby packed it up for him…and had nothing to add to the package that was a homemade treat (I was away at the time?) so he put in 2 large bags of Nestles Chocolate Chips…the 24oz bags… my son didn’t understand WHY he got so many choc chips with his package without the COOKIE part… but he ate them… and when he got home for XMAS he told us he had given up sweets, as a result of sooo much chocolate…and all the holiday baking I had done to welcome him home for XMAS was for naught…</p>
<p>Thanks for the recipes and tips!</p>
<p>I’ve been reading this thread with the thought that cookies that travel well are obviously ones that have a long shelf life, i.e. can be made in advance. I’ll continue to read this for ideas for S’s upcoming graduation party since I don’t want to wait until the last minute to bake. Thanks everyone.</p>
<p>Graduation is easy, son’s CC (the sport) team used to have family parties after each meet (100+ runners) and I know the desserts brought were popular. Have the big sheet cake and add all sorts of bars and cookies, you have the advantage of being able to give them away, freeze leftovers or use them.</p>