Keeping chewy cookies chewy?

[lauren0319]

We're heading to the beach next weekend and I am doing some baking today. Just made the most delicious choc chip peanut butter pretzel cookies. Sweet and salty and very chewy. They are very chewy straight from the oven but are crisping up pretty quickly. I've lowered my baking time in hopes of keeping them chewy.... like, almost uncooked in the center? Is that okay, or should I maybe decrease the temp instead?
Also, how should I store them? I was going to pop them in the freezer in a ziplock tub and my thought was, once we arrived, let them fully thaw and stick a piece of bread in to get them nice and chewy again. Good idea or do you have another one?
Thanks so much! I am a huge fan of chewy cookies and really don't enjoy crisp ones.

[redheadbaker]

Underbake them (just slightly). Store them in an airtight container with a slice of bread.

[womet]

What redhead said, but I always make sure to put my bread on top of some parchment paper so that the cookie that touch the bread don't get too moist.

[soozy87]

Yep, bread is the trick!

[udscoobychick]

Also, subbing brown sugar for some of the white sugar helps to keep cookies chewier (although this, of course, only works as you're making them, not after the fact!). It also gives them a more caramel-y flavor...yum!

[thewaytohisheart]

I don't change my baking at all, I've always stuck a slice of bread in and they've stayed chewy. Heck, even hard cookies become chewy! :