How to Bag Cookies for a Picnic

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Our cookies have cooled out of the oven. I lifted them off with a spatula. They're no longer hot. And so now it's time to package them up for the picnic and I thought it would be nice if everybody had their own individual little package of cookies and whatever they don't eat they can take home with them afterwards. But because there is some butter in the cookies I don't want it to stain the bag when I package it up so I'm just using some parchment paper. And I'm going to fold. And also so they don't stick because they have a tendency to stick to one another. Just making almost like an accordion pattern so that not only they don't stain the bottom of the bag but they don't stick to each other. Taking a regular old sandwich bag. And our little stack of cookies drops neatly into the bag. Now because it's a little tall I'm going to make it a little but more manageable. Cut the top off. Doesn't need to be perfectly equal. Let's see how I'm doing height wise. I want to get it even or as even as possible. Then again it is a picnic so I'm probably making more of a fuss than I really need to. But the fuss is half the fun. Okay so, that one's a little bit angled but that's fine. And you could use a hole punch if you like. Or, I'm just using a pen to, get a sharp ball point, and you'll sort of just have to ease it every so gently through the paper in approximately the center. Because I'm going to thread this pretty raffia. Be careful because you don't want to go too far through. And if you even need the help of the scissors to get it part way through that's fine. I've got some raffia. Snip it about there. And thread it through. Again if your hole isn't quite big enough you can go back with your scissors. I think I've almost got it here. You're pretty much just sewing the top of your package shut. I'm going to turn this towards me so I can tie a very simple little bow. And they had all kinds of colored raffia, too, at the craft store. I just decided I wanted to do red because I found a really cute little red tea towel. So that I'm going to use. And I mean if it's not perfect bow that's fine. You just want little rustic little packages for each person. So now let's package up the salad.

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