Dessert By Candy

This year’s cookies packaging was a mish mash of using up all of the boxes, paper, and ribbons from previous years. Inspired by the 3-tier Japanese boxes that I used for the larger gifts, I decided to go for a Japanese theme for the packaging.

The corrugated cardboard box seen on the right here is very sturdy so it is great for protecting more delicate cookies. The wide band of washi (Japanese paper) has a winter flower motive in white, black, brown, and gold. It adds a pop of colour to an otherwise plain square box and keeps the lid close. The rich brown satin ribbon adds warmth to the whole colour combination.

When I ran out of the cream colour cardboard boxes, I use a silver cake box that I bought a while back. This kind of boxes is typically used by Indian sweets stores for mithai. In fact, EC and I bought these boxes from one of these stores. By itself, it can look a little tacky. However, I added a band of white washi with a silver crysanthemum pattern for a cool winter theme. The brown satin ribbon balanced the colour scheme from getting too washed out.

Most of the cookies are individually wrapped in cellophane bags. The practical reason is to prevent the grease from the cookie to stain the boxes and also to keep soft cookies separate from crisp cookies.

Now that my stash of packaging supply is almost gone, I have a whole year to stock up before next year’s holiday baking begins again.

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