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Is your oven on the fritz? Has your holiday schedule left little time for baking? Do you love Christmas cookies but have never cracked an egg or turned on an electric mixer? Consider ordering Christmas cookies online from famous and not-so-famous bakeries who sell holiday cookies by mail.
Harry & David Christmas Cookies
Famous for its mouth-watering mail-order catalogs, the Harry & David brand has created an equally scrumptious Web site with an astounding variety of Christmas food gifts. Harry & David’s new Christmas cookie holiday assortment arrives in a double-decker gift box with over a pound and a half of cookies. These include Christmas tree shortbreads, dipped chocolate sandwich cookies, classic shortbreads, chocolate chip cookies, lemon and cherry shortbreads covered in chocolate, ginger cookies, mint chocolates, and the company’s signature solid chocolate pears. Price: $39.95, shipping is $10.99.
Organic Christmas Cookies
Beautiful Sweets sells certified organic gourmet Christmas Cookies, Hanukkah Cookies and Winter Cookies. The Ornaments Organic Cookie Tin features one and one-half pounds of sugar cookies (about 24) hand-decorated in classic Christmas tree ornament shapes. Beautiful Sweets not only uses organic ingredients, the New Jersey-based company says it pays its employees a living wage and recycles and reuses materials to reduce its impact on the environment. The Ornaments Organic Cookie Tin sells for $50, plus $8 shipping via UPS.
Italian Cookies Online
While not strictly Christmas cookies, Italian cookies are too festive and delicious to leave out of your holiday celebrations. The Mozzicato DePasquale Bakery and Pastry Shop in Hartford, Conn., offers a collection of classic Italian cookies mailed fresh anywhere in the U.S. from their store. The bakery’s cookies trays start at three pounds and include delicacies such as biscotti, crescent half-moon butter cookies, canali (butter cookies filled with apricot preserves), and pignoli and amaretti almond cookies. Mozzicato’s three-pound cookie tray (60-75 cookies) sells for $25.50; shipping varies with UPS.
Gingerbread Cookies Online
Buy just one gingerbread boy or girl cookie from the Gingerbread Construction Co., or get a six-pack of these traditional Christmas sweets. The company bakes all gingerbread cookies at its two Massachusetts bakeries and ships them via UPS. The basic frosted gingerbread cookie boy or girl ($2/each) is five inches tall and about 2.4 ounces. A six pack of these cookies sells for $11.99 and contains about one pound of cookies. Also available are more formally dressed bride and groom gingerbread people for 25 cents more a piece. Jumbo 12-inch-tall gingerbread boys and girls sell for $7.99 each. Shipping starts at $9, so it pays to order a large gang of these cute cookies.
