cheesecake cookies & refrigeration

[bearscanfly]

Simple question for you guys today. I'm planning on making some cheesecake cookies (these, specifically) today for my long-distance boyfriend with the intention of mailing them to him Monday. Do I need to worry about refrigeration? The cookies should arrive to him within two days and I'm worried about them going bad in that time. I Googled around

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[celtic_catgirl]

I bet those are fine. Just seal them up in a ziplock so they stay soft.

[bearscanfly]

...Oops. I went ahead and mailed them off and forgot to wrap them in a Ziploc! I ended up wrapping a stack of them (2-3) tightly in wax paper and putting stacks in a decorative box like so. Hopefully that'll do until they reach their destination!

[amiga500]

They'll be fine. The cream cheese here is acting like butter would in a normal recipe, and we've had similar cookies last quite awhile in a ziploc bag on the counter.

[bearscanfly]

Aha, good to know. Butter's fine unrefrigerated for awhile and it's dairy-based, so why wouldn't cream cheese be okay for a little bit too? (There's probably a really obvious and "duh" answer to that question that my non-science brain isn't thinking of, so let's call it a rhetorical question, heh.)

[emeraldrabbit]

Those look amazing-- now I want to know the answer to this question myself! I might make them for my husband's birthday on Saturday :)

[emeraldrabbit]

Found this for you: http://www.livestrong.com/article/544770-do-you-have-to-refrigerate-cream-cheese-after-you-bake-it/

It says that in cookies it's usually a small amount of cream cheese mixed with other stabilizing ingredients, so they probably don't need to be refrigerated. I might anyways, if I make them, just to be safe, but I bet it's fine.

[bearscanfly]

Aha, thanks! I somehow missed that particular bit when I was perusing relevant links. I'm glad this seems to be the consensus, as I went ahead and popped them in the mail. We'll see how they taste when they arrive in Indiana!

[katzies]

Those look amazing! I can't help with your question, but have to add my own: to make those Oreo cookie crumbs, do you just use the cookie part of the Oreo or the filling as well?

[bearscanfly]

That question was raised on the blog entry I linked and the author said she used the whole cookie. However, this was the first Oreo cheesecake cookie recipe I found, and that author used only the cookie. I suppose that means you could really do either way. I scraped out the insides and used only the cookie part in my rendition, if only to cut down on the butter-/cream cheese-/sugar-laden creamy sweetness a tiny bit. :]