Custom Cookie Bags

One Cookie or a Dozen, in a Bag With Your Name

Cookies are sold in very different ways. A café sells one oversized chocolate chunk cookie next to the register. A cookie shop sells boxes of six warm from the oven. A home baker at a holiday market sells decorated sugar cookies in sets of three, and a wedding caterer hands out a single iced cookie as a favor. Custom cookie bags cover all of these, and the right one depends on how many cookies, how soft they are and how far they travel.

Paper cookie bags are the everyday option for counter sales and takeout. They are quick to fill, they carry your logo out the door, and they feel natural around a baked good. Customers who search for cookie sleeves, cookie pouches and cookie wrappers are mostly after the same thing: a neat, printed way to hand over cookies that doesn't look like a generic deli bag.

Butter is the thing to plan for. A rich shortbread or a brown-butter cookie can leave translucent spots on plain paper within an hour, especially while still warm. That doesn't hurt the cookie, but it can spoil the look of your print. If your cookies are buttery, ask for a grease-resistant paper or plan to wrap them in a sheet of custom glassine paper before they go into the printed bag.

Sizing Cookie Bags by How You Sell

Measure your largest cookie, not your average one. Jumbo bakery cookies spread differently from batch to batch, and a bag cut to the exact diameter will snag on the larger ones. Allow a little extra width and length for the fold.

Kraft paper suits oatmeal, chocolate chip and other rustic cookies. White paper makes bright royal-icing colors and French macarons look sharper. Both are food-contact papers that meet FDA requirements, and recyclable stock is available.

Design Choices for Cookie Packaging

Cookie bags are small, so the design has to be simple. A logo, a short line about your bakery and maybe a pattern is plenty. Many bakers print one design on the front and nothing on the back, which keeps costs down; others print a repeating pattern so the bag looks branded from any angle in a basket.

• A window shows off decorated cookies, but keep it smaller than the cookie so it doesn't slip against the film.
• One PMS (Pantone) brand color on kraft is the most economical look and still reads clearly.
• Gold foil on white paper turns a favor cookie into something guests keep.
• Embossing a logo on a plain white bag looks upscale without adding ink.
• Print the bakery's social handle near the fold; people photograph cookies.

Cookie bags often travel alongside a coffee or a slice of cake. If your bakery also sells larger pastries, our custom pastry bags for bakeries can carry the same artwork in a bigger format, so a mixed order still looks like one brand.

Packing Cookies on a Busy Day

Let cookies cool before bagging unless the customer is eating them right away. Warm cookies steam inside a closed bag and lose their crisp edges. For pre-packed cookies on a shelf, close the bag with a printed sticker that shows the flavor, so you don't need a different bag for every variety.

Store bags flat in a dry cupboard, away from the oven exhaust. In a café, a small stack of opened bags next to the cookie jar speeds up service. For gift sets and events, lay the filled bags in a tray or box so they don't get crushed; custom printed bakery trays work well for catering platters where each guest takes a bagged cookie.

How Ordering Works

1. Decide how many cookies go in each bag and measure them.
2. Choose kraft or white paper and whether you want a window, foil or embossing.
3. Send your logo and any wording, such as flavor names or event details.
4. Get a free sample and test it with your real cookies, warm and cooled.
5. Approve the proof; your order is produced in 4 to 6 business days after approval.

The minimum is 100 bags per design. That is easy to use up at a single wedding or a busy holiday weekend, and volume discounts apply as quantities rise. Design help is free, and shipping to the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia costs nothing. A quote takes a few details: size, quantity, material and your artwork, which you can send through the cookie bag quote page.