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Best Cookies for Shipping as Gifts: 20 Recipes That Survive the Mail Every Time

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Best Cookies for Shipping as Gifts: 20 Recipes That Survive the Mail Every Time

A few years ago, my aunt called me in tears — happy tears, she insisted — because the box of cookies I’d shipped her for her birthday had arrived as a pile of crumbs and broken shards. I had sent delicate sandwich cookies packed in tissue paper. They looked beautiful when I packed them. They … Read more

12 Cookies That Ship Beautifully: My Tested Mail-Order Cookie List

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12 Cookies That Ship Beautifully: My Tested Mail-Order Cookie List

Let me tell you about the Great Cookie Catastrophe of last December, which is what my sister now refers to as “the incident.” I had spent an entire weekend baking what I believed were gorgeous, perfectly iced sugar cookies — little snowflakes, mittens, the whole festive lineup — and shipped them off to my college … Read more