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How do I send baked goods to my sailor with it staying fresh?

Any suggestions for keeping banana bread fresh when I mail it to my son?  He just joined the Carl Vinson for his 2nd deployment and he told me that others got baked goods on the last deployment, which I didn't know about.  I'm concerned about it getting moldly.  I was thinking of freezing it after it is baked and wrapping it in plastic wrap, then foil and put it in a large ziploc bag.  Will that work or is there a better way?  Also, I want to bake him cookies but thinking they will be crumbs and/or moldly by the time it reaches him.

 

Thanks for any suggestions,

Sheba

 

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DebbiePermalink Reply by Debbie on December 2, 2011 at 7:09pm

I have been through 4 deployments and have sent many baked goods.  Store bought items last longer becasue of the preservatives they put in. Everything i sent was frozen first, then wrapped in tinfoil.  I also went to the dollar store and got plastic containers to send cookie in, lined it with tinfoil andput tinfoil between layers.

Some folks I know vaccuum packed their baked goods.  If doing it that way I would put popped corn in the box to cushion.

Cake in a jar is good to send also.

 

Permalink Reply by Sheba on December 2, 2011 at 10:22pm

Thanks Debbie :)

I will freeze it and wrap it in foil and plastic wrap.  I don't have a vaccuum pack machine, so I'll just ask him how it turned out.  What did you mean by "cake in a jar?"  I haven't heard of that before.

DebbiePermalink Reply by Debbie on December 3, 2011 at 10:10am

You make cake in mason jars. I am sure someone on here has the recipe or you could google it.  I forgot about the bread.  My son's favorote is angel food cake. I would go to to the store and ask for them out of the freezer in the back cause they freeze harder then your own freezer. 

 

Permalink Reply by Sheba on December 6, 2011 at 11:30am

Great idea Debbie,

Thanks :)

 

 

 

TammyPermalink Reply by Tammy on December 3, 2011 at 9:31am

when i sent my son baked goods i put them in the plastic container and lined the bottom with bread-then bubble wrap then the baked goods then bubble wrap on that and bread on top of that and he said they were still fresh when he got them. just an idea

Permalink Reply by Sheba on December 6, 2011 at 11:30am

Thanks Tammy,

That is a clever way, I wouldn't have thought of putting bread in the box.  I think that would be for when I bake some cookies though.  But wouldn't the bread just mold? 

Sheba

 

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