diff --git a/backend/Cargo.lock b/backend/Cargo.lock
index 7a424f4..9233dd6 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -1931,6 +1931,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "clap",
  "clap_derive",
+ "cookie",
  "crc32fast",
  "figment",
  "jsonwebtoken",
diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index d0fe53f..f2df4f7 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ scrypt = "0.11"
 time = "0.3.36"
 chrono = { version = "0.4", features = ["serde"] }
 axum = { version = "0.7", features = ["macros", "multipart"] }
+cookie = "0.18.1"
 axum-extra = { version = "0.9", features = ["typed-header", "cookie"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.36", features = ["full"] }
 figment = { version = "0.10", features = ["toml", "env"] }
diff --git a/backend/src/api/admin.rs b/backend/src/api/admin.rs
index 910aea9..e43547b 100644
--- a/backend/src/api/admin.rs
+++ b/backend/src/api/admin.rs
@@ -210,6 +210,6 @@ async fn admin_login(
         (status = 404, description = "User or password not found", body = ErrorResponse),
     )
 )]
-async fn admin_logout(cookies: CookieJar) -> Response {
-    auth::expire_cookies(cookies).into_response()
+async fn admin_logout(State(app_state): State<AppState>, cookies: CookieJar) -> Response {
+    auth::expire_cookies(&app_state, cookies).into_response()
 }
diff --git a/backend/src/api/admin/auth.rs b/backend/src/api/admin/auth.rs
index 1fd28b0..6b05c86 100644
--- a/backend/src/api/admin/auth.rs
+++ b/backend/src/api/admin/auth.rs
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ pub async fn authentication_middleware(
                 )
             else {
                 // If the refresh token is invalid return an error
-                let purged_jar = expire_cookies(cookies);
+                let purged_jar = expire_cookies(&app_state, cookies);
                 return Ok((purged_jar, AppError::Unauthorized).into_response());
             };
 
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ pub async fn authentication_middleware(
                 }
                 // if the user is not found, clear the cookie jar
                 Err(AppError::Database(sqlx::Error::RowNotFound)) => {
-                    let purged_jar = expire_cookies(cookies);
+                    let purged_jar = expire_cookies(&app_state, cookies);
                     return Ok((purged_jar, AppError::Unauthorized).into_response());
                 }
                 Err(err) => return Err(err.into_response()),
@@ -155,10 +155,12 @@ pub async fn authentication_middleware(
     })
 }
 
-pub fn expire_cookies(cookies: CookieJar) -> CookieJar {
-    cookies
-        .remove(EPHEMERAL_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME)
-        .remove(REFRESH_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME)
+pub fn expire_cookies(app_state: &AppState, cookies: CookieJar) -> CookieJar {
+    [EPHEMERAL_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME, REFRESH_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME]
+        .into_iter()
+        .fold(cookies, |jar, cookie_name| {
+            jar.remove(create_admin_cookie(cookie_name, app_state))
+        })
 }
 
 fn create_user_claim(user: &User) -> AdminEphemeralTokenClaims {
@@ -171,18 +173,24 @@ fn create_user_claim(user: &User) -> AdminEphemeralTokenClaims {
     }
 }
 
-fn create_ephemeral_cookie<'a>(
-    claims: AdminEphemeralTokenClaims,
+// this helper is used to add and remove cookies
+fn create_admin_cookie<'a>(
+    base: impl Into<Cookie<'a>>,
     app_state: &AppState,
-) -> Cookie<'a> {
-    let token = app_state.generate_refresh_token(claims);
-
-    Cookie::build((EPHEMERAL_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME, token))
+) -> cookie::CookieBuilder<'a> {
+    Cookie::build(base)
         .path("/api/admin/")
         .secure(app_state.config.secure_cookie)
         .http_only(true)
         .same_site(SameSite::Strict)
-        .build()
+}
+
+fn create_ephemeral_cookie<'a>(
+    claims: AdminEphemeralTokenClaims,
+    app_state: &AppState,
+) -> Cookie<'a> {
+    let token = app_state.generate_refresh_token(claims);
+    create_admin_cookie((EPHEMERAL_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME, token), app_state).build()
 }
 
 fn create_refresh_cookie<'a>(user_id: Uuid, app_state: &AppState, remember_me: bool) -> Cookie<'a> {
@@ -202,11 +210,7 @@ fn create_refresh_cookie<'a>(user_id: Uuid, app_state: &AppState, remember_me: b
         remember_me,
     });
 
-    Cookie::build((REFRESH_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME, token))
-        .path("/api/admin/")
-        .secure(app_state.config.secure_cookie)
-        .http_only(true)
-        .same_site(SameSite::Strict)
+    create_admin_cookie((REFRESH_TOKEN_COOKIE_NAME, token), app_state)
         .expires(if remember_me {
             Expiration::DateTime(time_now + time::Duration::days(inactive_days))
         } else {