It’s very easy for me to feel overwhelmed when I’m shopping for food-related gifts online — and even easier to distract myself with side quests. The simple task of finding a Mother’s Day gift, for example, can turn into an hours-long debate between an increasingly complex amount of options, including plenty of DIY baked goods that are very cool (see: the Goldbelly-featured cereal cake bowl) but would definitely make my mother scratch her head. In those moments, I take a beat and go back to basics à la Christina Aguilera with a non-fussy food gift. Sometimes you just crave something that feels classic, perhaps something evocative of peak 90s mall culture. In this case, I propose David’s Cookies, aka the Platonic ideal of cookie companies, because it’s offering 20 percent off your second box — tin? truckload? — of cookies at check-out.
I respect David’s Cookies for knowing exactly what it is, which is the kind of cookie company I could see thriving in-between a Blockbuster and a Dippin’ Dots. It’s not quite in the same category of the more Frasier-pilled appeal of a Harry & David basket, nor is it trying to compete with the irreverence of a Milk Bar gift box. The company was founded in 1979 by David Liederman in Manhattan, and while it has since expanded to a more far-reaching mail-order model, it still offers a range of nostalgic, preservative-free cookies, cakes, and desserts.
The quintessential cookie box
My grandmother needs this crumb cake for bridge night
For the distant uncle: peanut butter cookies
The sale is not quite BOGO, but it is buy-one-and-get-one-for-20%-off. So if you need to grab undeniably likable gifts for two people in your life right now, look no further.
The world may change, but David’s commitment to Jumbo Chocolate Chunk cookies remains unwavering.
