34 Holiday Cookies That Travel Well

Need an awesome cookie for the office holiday party that won't crumble on the way to work? Thinking about shipping some cookies to a faraway friend or family member? Want to wrap up a few cookies for an easy hostess gift?

That's where this round-up of recipes come in! Below are my favorite cookies from Simply Recipes that are sturdy enough to pack up, but delicious enough to make your best friend smile.

1. Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

These homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies are the BEST! One special ingredient helps deepens the flavor and gives the chocolate chip cookies a chewier texture. Save this chocolate chip cookie recipe. It's that good.

2. Brookies (Chocolate Chip Brownie Cookies)

Brownies and chocolate chip cookies together as one! Brookies are the best of both worlds, so you don't have to choose.

3. Peanut Butter Cookies

These are the best peanut butter cookies ever! Use your favorite store-brand peanut butter and a combination of white and brown sugar. For the best cookie shape, let the dough chill for at least three hours before baking.

4. Chocolate Crinkles

Chocolate crinkle cookies! Chocolate dough rolled in powdered sugar and baked into a festive black and white cookie. They're the perfect Christmas cookies!

5. Marble Blondies

Contributor Kayla Hoang says, "When swirling the batters, I’ve found the most success with the side of a small offset spatula or the spine of a butter knife rather than a toothpick. These tools are better able to drag the thick batters into one another."

6. Brown Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies

These chocolate chunk cookies are made using brown butter and chunks of milk chocolate. Browning the butter is an extra step, but so worth it for these decadent chocolate chunk cookies!

7. Thumbprint Cookies

Thumbprint Cookies! These buttery little cookies are filled with jam and rolled with nuts. Make this classic cookie for your next cookie exchange or holiday party.

8. Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Contributor Devan Grimsrud says, "While some cookie recipes are great for spontaneous baking, this one requires some patience. Let the cookie dough rest in the fridge for at least 2 hours before baking. This prevents the dough from spreading out into flat, thin, and crispy cookies as they bake."

9. Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies

Nostalgia alert! When was the last time you made these favorite childhood cookies? Don't know? Let's remedy that. Chocolate and peanut butter belong together, and these easy cookies prove it.

10. Brown Sugar Snickerdoodle Cookies

These brown sugar snickerdoodle cookies are crackled with cinnamon-sugar on the outside and chewy-soft on the inside. This recipe does not use cream of tartar, but adds cornstarch for extra tenderness.

11. Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Oatmeal and chocolate chips are great together. Add in some pecans and coconut and we're pretty excited. But it's the brown butter that take these cookies over the top!

12. Holiday Pinwheel Cookies

Holiday Pinwheel Cookies are so fun on a cookie tray! Made by rolling with two colors of dough together. Freeze the log of dough for up to a month for slice-and-bake cookies.

13. Slice-and-Bake Pistachio Butter Cookies

Easy slice-and-bake pistachio butter cookies! Keep the dough in the fridge or freezer for a cookies whenever you want them. Food processor dough.

14. Pecan Meringue Cookies

These light and sweet meringue cookies are made with just three ingredients: egg whites, sugar, and pecans. Great for Christmas or for a Passover or Easter treat! Start them the night before and let them cool slowly in the oven until morning.

15. Pumpkin Biscotti

Founder Elise Bauer says, "Use a serrated knife like a bread knife to cut the biscotti. But don't wait too long after you take it out of the oven after the first bake or it will be too hard to cut!"

16. Monster Cookie Bars

Colorful and craveable monster cookies in bar form let you pack as much cookie goodness in your package or Tupperware as possible.

17. Chocolate Cranberry Rugelach

Rugelach is a classic Jewish pastry that's not at all hard to make at home. This version is full of chocolate and dried cranberries! Bonus: They freeze well and keep well!

18. Coconut Macaroons

Coconut macaroons! These sweet coconut cookies are slightly crunchy on the outside, but soft and chewy on the inside, with a secret ingredient to make them extra smooth.

19. Mexican Wedding Cookies

Crumbly, buttery, and nutty - Mexican Wedding Cookies are irresistible. Also called Russian Tea Cakes. Make with pecans, walnuts, almonds, or any other nut.

10. 2-Ingredient Pumpkin Quickies

Senior Editor Laurel Randolph says, "These quick cookies are accidentally vegan. The pumpkin provides all of the moisture, so there’s no egg or dairy."

21. Cocoa Coconut Macaroons

These Cocoa Coconut Macaroons are like a cross between a classic macaroon and a fudgy brownie.

22. English Toffee

Homemade English toffee! Top this crunchy, caramel toffee with dark chocolate and toasted nuts. It's so easy to make and keeps for weeks. Ships well, too!

23. Easy Fantasy Fudge

This fudge recipe is adapted from the original Kraft back-of-the-can recipe—but with extra chocolate. It's easy to make with marshmallow fluff, chocolate, evaporated milk, and walnuts. It makes a huge batch so you can share with friends!

24. Rum Balls

Chocolate rum balls! These easy no-bake treats are perfect for your next holiday party.

25. Christmas Cracker Candy

Who wants Christmas Cracker Candy?! Saltine crackers coated with caramel and chocolate make a salty, crunchy holiday treat. What's not to love?

26. Peanut Butter Buckeyes

Chocolate-dipped peanut butter buckeyes are so easy to make at home with this easy Buckeye recipe. An essential for any cookie tray!

27. Pecan Pralines

Pecan pralines are more than the sum of their parts: pecans, sugar, cream, butter, and vanilla. They're a rich, crunchy, candy-coated indulgence! Make them for a holiday cookie tray or to ship to a friend.

28. Peppermint Bark

Peppermint Bark is so festive and so EASY! This recipe uses both peppermint extract and crushed candy canes to make it an extra-special holiday treat. It makes a great holiday gift for teachers, neighbors, and friends!

29. Fudgy Chocolate Brownies

These super-fudgy brownies are for chocolate lovers only! Made with melted chocolate, butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and chocolate chips. Great for picnics, potlucks, or mailing to a friend.

30. Blondies

These homemade blondies are rich, buttery, and chewy — the perfect treat for Game Day, birthday parties, and potlucks. They keep for several days and freeze like a dream.

31. 7-Layer Magic Bars

Classic 7-layer magic bars with chocolate, nuts, butterscotch, and coconut! They're the perfect make-ahead dessert for your next party.

32. Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies

Chocolate and peanut butter are made for each other. This recipe tugs at the nostalgia of those boxed brownie mixes from childhood—but ours is made entirely from scratch.

33. Best Chocolate Brownies

The Perfect Chocolate Brownie! All from scratch. EASY to make and so much better than a box mix! Super chocolatey.

34. Pumpkin Snickerdoodles

Contributor Mark Beahm says, "For an extra chewy cookie, you can use a paper towel to blot the pumpkin purée and absorb excess water before making the dough."