So your baby is off to college! How is that even possible? One of the most time-honored ways to remind your college kid how much you care, is with a good old fashioned care package, filled with home baked cookies.
Here, you'll find a baker's dozen of wonderful recipes for cookies sturdy enough to ship well through the post. What a welcome taste of home!
1. Chocolate Ginger Crinkles
These Chocolate Crinkle cookies are so much like the ones my mother used to send me when I was in college (many, many years ago!) This recipe features the warming addition of ginger...sure to warm any college kid's heart!
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2. Double Chocolate Chip and Coffee Biscotti
Double Chocolate Chip and Coffee Biscotti are rich, decadent chocolatey cookies. These double chocolate Italian cookies are perfect for dipping in a cup of coffee, while pulling an all-nighter.
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3. Old Fashioned Linzer Cookies
It's impossible not to smile when you open a box filled with sandwich cookies...especially when those cookies are filled with gem-toned jam!
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4. Double Chocolate Malted Cookies
These double chocolate malted cookies combine the toasted, earthy flavors of malted milk powder with an extra helping of rich dark chocolate.
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5. Lavender Sugar Cookies
Incorporating lavender is a wonderful way to add a touch of elegance to the tried and true sugar cookie. And with the stress-reducing benefits of lavender, that's never a bad thing, around exam time!
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6. The Best Snickerdoodle Cookies
These homemade snickerdoodle cookies are perfectly soft, chewy and sweet. They are rolled in cinnamon sugar and they bake in under 10 minutes! Snickerdoodles are such a classic cookie, and with their unique flavor, they're the perfect taste of home!
7. Chocolate Covered Oreos
If these Chocolate Covered Oreos don't say "care package", I don't know what does! They're easy to make, and fun to eat.
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8. Chewy Amaretti Cookies (Gluten Free)
These Chewy Amaretti Cookies have a slightly crispy exterior with a chewy center. They're also naturally gluten and dairy-free.
9. Matcha Cookies
The subtle taste of vanilla, with crunchy almonds and white chocolate mixed with the slight bitterness of the green tea (matcha) makes for a sophisticated combination. Impress your college student with with an unexpectedly savvy cookie like this one!
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10. Caramel Apple Cookies
Caramel Apple Cookies are soft, chewy cookies with brown sugar, buttery caramel, and sweet-tart apple. All of the delicious flavors of caramel apples, in cookie form. Yes, please!
11. Brown Butter Pecan Cookies
These brown butter pecan cookies have a rich, buttery flavor and are packed full of candied pecans, and the caramel flavors of brown sugar. These butter pecan cookies have crispy edges, soft and chewy centers...care package perfection!
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12. Old Fashioned Molasses Crinkles
Does anything take you back in time, like the taste of a soft, squishy molasses crinkle? Put a little nostalgia in your next care package, with these beloved classics.
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13. NYC Cookies Recipe (Triple Chocolate Chip)
And of course, one cannot overlook the ubiquitous chocolate chip cookie. Take it up a notch though, with these "NYC cookies" that are filled with a triple chocolate combo of white, dark and milk chocolate. Talk about decadent!
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Homemade Turtle Candies Are Another Great Care Package Addition
These Paleo Maple Caramel Pecan Turtles are made with real honey and maple syrup. They ship well, and make a heavenly addition to any care package!
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Caramel Apples Are The Perfect Fall Treat, When College Kids Come Home To Visit
Kids coming home to visit for the weekend? Why not make these maple caramel apples? They have a depth of flavor that will blow you away. Plus, they're paleo, gluten-free and dairy-free!
Anna Chesley
Anna Chesley is a freelance writer living a homestead lifestyle, with a special love for family travel, old books, vintage skills, and seaside living. In addition to founding Salt In My Coffee, she runs the website, New England Family Life, as well as The 1800's Housewife, a website devoted to re-creating authentic 1800's recipes.
Wayne Marshall says
The only edible that survived the USPS all the time was Congo Bars. Servicemen in Vietnam always received their home-made snacks intact and didn’t even need popcorn to protect the goodies.
Anna Chesley says
Mmmmm...Congo bars! Thanks for this, Wayne. I'd forgotten about those!