The Best Cookies to Order Online 2024

Levain Bakery’s gourmet cookies push the limits of the definition of cookie. They have been described as “Molten Cookie Dough” for their barely baked middles that ooze with warm, sweet goodness.

Weighing in at 6 ounces each, the cookies are the size of generous muffin tops. Each flavor is rich, buttery, super-decadent. The edges have a slightly crisp cookie texture that gives way to an interior of cookie/cake-y crumb. The cookie’s center is a barely baked oooey goooey celebration of sweet. This is not a cookie for the faint of heart.

Cookies come wrapped in a cellophane bag, four to a bag. “Just four?” you ask. Trust us, at their generous size and weight four Levain cookies weigh a pound and a half which is likely more than a dozen daintier cookies.

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A Cookie for Every Craving! Cookies arrive individually wrapped, perfect for sharing.

Choose from many favorites including the Dark Chocolate Sea Salt (a brownie-like cookie made with Valrhona dark cocoa and Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate chips. It delivers a subtle and delightful “ting” of salt on the tongue), the clever Lemon Blueberry White Chocolate Chip cookie, and seasonal cookies that go fast.

If you order a dozen of these 4.4 ounce cookies that’s over three pounds of cookies. Too much? No worries. You can also order the smaller, (but still big!) 1.9 ounce, one dozen Cookie Assortment. We know, that’s still a pound and a half of cookies, but you or the lucky gift recipient won’t regret it.

Order cookies online at Sweet Girl Cookies

Milk Bar Bakery, where Taylor Swift has been known to buy her favorite birthday cake. Yes, Milk Bar makes cakes, pies, truffles and cookies too!

Quirky and delicious best describes the colossal and craggy cookies served up by Milk Bar Bakery. Founded by James Beard award-winning pastry chef Christina Tosi, Milk Bar Bakery first opened its doors in NYC’s East Village and quickly developed a national fanbase.

Corn flakes, peanut butter cups, Lucky Charms, Fruity Pebbles, Cap’n Crunch—all have made appearances in Milk Bar cookies. Or maybe you’ll enjoy the chocolate and butterscotch chips, potato chips and pretzels in their famous Compost Cookies. (Here’s the recipe compliments of head baker Christina Tosi if you’re interested.)  Note, when you order a dozen, your cookies will be shipped in a snazzy windowed tin that you’ll be happy to keep! They also have gluten-free cookies too.

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Eat Salty Sweet, San Francisco, California

You have got to try their Caramel Crunch Chocolate Chip Cookie. This gourmet cookie starts with a classic chocolate chip cookie batter and then adds their signature crunchy toffee/caramel/salty chunks that takes this cookie to the next level of craveability.

Made with house-made vanilla and all the finest, buttery ingredients you would expect in an exceptional cookie. Crunchy on the edges with a soft-baked, chewy middle, every cookie is topped with delicate flakes of sea salt.

Their classic chocolate chip cookies use Guittard chocolate chips in a perfect dough to chocolate ratio. We also love the Oatmeal Raisin cookies (“Best I’ve ever had” said one taster), the Dark Chocolate cookies (“Deeply chocolate without being too sweet’) and the Spicy Cinnamon cookies which absolutely live up to the name. Gluten-Free and Vegan cookie options are available too, and they are just as delicious as the classic versions.

Each gourmet cookie comes individually wrapped in its own clear cellophane envelope so you won’t mind when eager tasters paw through the selection to find their favorite.

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Named one of Oprah’s favorite cookies, these are hefty 4 ounce cookies (that’s a quarter pounder cookie!), four inches across, with a dense, soft-baked texture with an excellent bite that can also hold its own dunked in your beverage of choice.  Our surprise favorite: the chewy and perfectly spiced Sweet Potato Pie Cookie.  Sounds weird. Taste ahhh-mazing. Another surprise: Peppermint Hot Chocolate, a brownie-like chocolate mint cookie that pulls off the nearly impossible stunt of tasting like the iconic Girl Scout Thin Mint cookie. Bottom line, even our toughest reviewers agree:  Every flavor is “bangin’.”

Order Cookies Online at Cookie Society.

The head baker at the Last Crumb bakery is on a mission to create a cookie worthy of a Michelin star. Each handmade “luxury” cookie is crafted over a 3-day process. Each cookie is made from the highest quality ingredients, and each flavor version is lovingly and whimsically conceived from “Better than Sex” (Chocolate Chip Cookies) to “Netflix and Crunch” (Cinnamon Toast Crunch) to “Donkey Kong” (Banana Cream Pie), and many, many more.  Expensive? At $140 a dozen plus shipping, absolutely. But it’s a good bet you’ll feel you got your money’s worth.

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Remember when New Yorkers were lining up for blocks to buy the Cronut—the donut made of croissant dough that made the whole world lose its mind? Dominique Ansel was the mastermind pastry chef who created that treat. So can you imagine how good his gourmet cookies are? They are everything you would expect: rich, dense, irresistible.

Choose from Double Chocolate Pecan Cookies which are like a gooey chocolate brownie in the center with perfectly crisp edges, studded with toasted pecans throughout. Made with almond flour, they happen to be gluten-free too!  Or enjoy the Chocolate Chunk Cookies made with milk and dark chocolate chunks and baked until golden with a soft gooey center.

These are hefty 4 ounce cookies, made for cookie lovers worldwide.

Order cookies online at Dominique Ansel Bakery.

Zabar’s is as New York as it gets. Whether you’re celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas or New Years, Zabar’s kosher bagels, deli meats, and pastries will put you in a New York state of mind. The Black and Whites are particularly fun to eat. Do you eat one side first then the other, or take an equal bite of both sides down the middle? I haven’t decided yet, so I’ll keep practicing.

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Cake Monkey Bakery, Los Angeles, California

For those who loved Ding Dongs (a.k.a. Ring Dings) you’ll want to order the Cakewiches, delightful mini cake sandwiches filled with peanut butter & house-made marshmallow, or raspberry and vanilla cream enrobed in bittersweet chocolate. Do you crave a Yodel? Try Cake Monkey’s El Rollos.

Or try the Oreo Cookie reinvented as the “Big O” with a scrumptious butter cream sandwiched between two gourmet chocolate cookies. We could go on, but be a big kid and go see for yourself!

Order Cookies Online at Cake Monkey Bakery.

Ruby Snap Cookies are the retro-inspired glamour girls of the cookie world. Each of the 18 flavors on the cookie menu is named like a pin-up girl—Margo, Lola or Lilly—to highlight the beauty and seductive quality of each cookie. The tongue in cheek silliness works. You’ll be seduced.

Yes, you can get your chocolate fix with flavors that include Coffee Toffee (“Nina”) and Peanut Butter Truffle (“Penelope”). But you’ll really be turned on by the tart come-ons of “Zoey” a Blueberry Lemon Chia cookie with a tart, fresh-squeezed lemon juice glaze, or “Lilly” a Lemon Sugar Cookie with Lemon Heads and a fresh-squeezed lemon glaze (best eaten upside down so the glaze dazzles your tongue with a mouth watering tartness). Or surrender yourself to the siren call of “Suzie” and her rosy-pink glow of tart cherries, a zig-zag of milk chocolate, and her sparkling pink shimmer of sugar.

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David’s Cookies

Baked in Color, New York, New York

Made by hand every day, each dough color is rolled out and then twisted with others to create the delightfully psychedelic color combos. Extra chocolate chips are sprinkled on top right before baking giving the cookies an even yummier taste and an irresistible look.

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