As the holidays approach, so do term papers and finals. What better time of year to send a home baked treat to help your college kid through crunch time?
Here, you'll find a baker's dozen of wonderful recipes for cookies sturdy enough to ship well through the post. There's nothing like getting some holiday love in a box, shipped from home!
1. Chocolate and Ginger Shortbread Cookies
Chocolate and ginger create a simple but special sweet: fragrant, aromatic, delicate. They are simple, economical, and delicious treats, and they have chocolate!
2. Christmas Mitten Sugar Cookies
These Christmas mitten sugar cookies are both beautiful and tasty! They’re guaranteed to bring a smile to all your recipients or stand out on the holiday party table.
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3. Biscoff Linzer Cookies
Move over generic sugar cookies, and make way for these Biscoff linzer cookies! The combination of the spiced cookie butter spread and buttery and tender almond cookies is so delicious!
These minimalist Rudolph cookies are super cute but simple and easy to make, and perfect for Christmas!
4. Chocolate Dipped Coconut Macaroons
These sweet and chewy coconut macaroons are perfectly toasted on the outside and delightfully moist on the inside. They are dipped in rich, velvety dark chocolate. For real chocolate lovers, you can even drizzle more chocolate on top!
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5. Double Chocolate Espresso 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 invigorating addition of espresso...great for finals prep week!
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Chocolate M&M Cookies
Chocolate M&M cookies are soft chocolate cookies, packed with mini chocolate chips and M&M candies for the ultimate care package cookie!
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9. Christmas Oreos
These Christmas Oreos dipped in Belgian Chocolate are adorable! Everyone will fall in love with all the whimsical details of these cookies!
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10. 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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11. 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!
12. 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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13. Flourless Almond Butter Cookies
Peanut butter cookies are a classic, but for those with peanut allergies (or just looking for a healthier option) these Almond Butter Cookies are soft, delicious perfection.
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14. 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.
15. 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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16. 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!
17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. Gingerbread Macarons
These Christmas macarons taste just like traditional gingerbread, but in a form of a macaron! Crispy, ginger-flavored shells are filled ginger buttercream, then topped with white chocolate drizzle and festive sprinkles.
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21. Maple Pecan Turtles
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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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.
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