After I posted my S’mores Cookies on Facebook, an old high school friend of mine commented about how yummy they looked. When I found out Nicole was having a rough week, I decided to ship some cookies her way. After all, I can’t be expected to eat everything I bake all by myself, and chocolate makes other people happy, so it’s a win-win.

I decided to be resourceful with the packaging materials I already had on hand, and I ended up stumbling onto an easy, cheap life-hack for shipping cookies: the pint berry container. I had just finished a pint of strawberries, and the plastic, lidded berry container was the perfect size to fit a dozen small cookies.

Here’s how you can easily pack your cookies with (nearly) free materials to keep them fresh and whole in the mail.
1. Once the cookies are completely cool, stack them in stacks of 3 or 4 and wrap each stack in plastic wrap.
2. Seal the stacks of cookies inside a quart-sized Ziploc bag,
3. Cushion the inside of a clean, dry plastic pint container with bubble wrap (or more plastic wrap), then nestle the bag of cookies inside. Wrap the bubble wrap around the cookies and snap the lid shut.
4. These containers are even the right size to stick a recipe card on top!

Want to make someone’s day? Send cookies their way!