Our Valentine's Day Mini Heart Cookies are perfect for sharing with friends, family and sweethearts

Our smiley heart shaped cookies will make the day of whoever the recipient is. Thanks to our new Valentine’s Day gift baskets you can make the holiday special for coworkers, family and friends, or that special person in your life. There are 13 valentines day gift baskets to choose from starting under $15.

Each basket is unique. Take for instance the stimulating basket for coffee lovers. It even comes with a mug. Another great option is the “Tower of Treats” basket that would be a great spread at the office or your home.

Our Valentines Day Tower of Treats features our heart shaped Smiley Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Sarris Chocolate Smiley Hearts!

If you really want to get creative you can take the time to customize a cookie. Anybody would be delighted with a cookie in their favorite colors, the colors of their favorite sports team, or just something you took the time to design.

Just don’t forget that wise old proverb, “The best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.” Also noteworthy to remember is there is a kid in all of us and they’re just dying to reach into the cookie jar. Contact us this Valentine’s Day and we’ll help reach in and get delicious cookies for you and anyone you love enough to share with.

Order a dozen for that special someone, or send a gift basket to friends, family members, coworkers, or college students. Our heart shaped Smiley cookies are made fresh daily with artistry and simple, pure ingredients. Each Smiley Cookie and heart Smiley Cookie is hand-iced–the originals in white with our classic colored smiles, and the hearts in pink with a delicate white face.

Our heart shaped Smiley Cookies are the perfect something sweet for your sweetie!

Our Smiling Sweetheart Gift Basket comes with two dozen heart Smiley cookies, while the Hearts and Smiles Gift Basket consists of a dozen hearts and a dozen of our original Smileys. Take your pick of our Valentine’s gift options, or express your individuality by creating your own custom heart shaped Smiley cookies. Select the icing colors for the face and smile to create a personalized gift that comes straight from the heart.

Our Heart Shaped Cookie Gift Basket is perfect for sharing Valentine's Day love with an office, classroom or family of loved ones!

Finally, since chocolate and Valentine’s day also go hand in hand, consider adding some Smiley chocolates to your order. Made with Sarris Candy premier chocolate, our Smiley chocolates are hand-crafted and individually wrapped. Available in milk or dark chocolate, these sweet little Smileys are the perfect accompaniment to our gourmet cookies.

Our Heart Shaped Chocolate Smileys will make anyone Smile!

Contact us to see our entire selection and find just the right delectable gifts for your loved ones this Valentine’s Day.

A Birthday Gift Basket like this one is guaranteed to make anyone Smile!

Our cookies are made fresh and hand packed so they are always fresh no matter where you send them. These gifts are perfect for the birthd ay guy or gal overseas, though you might want to choose one of our bigger baskets. You know that once your loved one in the military opens the package, everyone around is going to want a Smiley Cookie. We also have cookie gift baskets for other occasions that require congratulations, such as graduations, new babies and marriage.

You can also create your own birthday cookie. Choose a shape, a base color and a smiley color to personalize your loved one’s smiley cookies. Need Kosher cookies for that someone special? You don’t have to forgo cookies because you need Kosher — we also bake Kosher cookies.

While the earliest cookies date back to the 7^th century, German Protestant settlers in Pennsylvania first introduced sugar cookies in the 1700s. History suggests that they probably derived from an earlier, unleavened cookie called a jumble. A biscuit that gained popularity in Europe because of the fact that, as a non-leavened food, it could be dried and stored for many months. Jumbles traditionally are made of nuts, flour, eggs, and sugar, with vanilla, anise, or caraway seed used for flavoring.

Our Heart Shaped Sugar Cookies are a delicious example of modern sugar cookies!

The modern sugar cookie gained popularity in America sometime in the 1930s when it became traditional for children to leave sugar cookies and milk out for Santa on Christmas Eve. Because of how easy it is to cut and shape sugar cookie dough, custom cookies have become very popular.

The original name for cookies came from the Dutch word for “little cakes” (koekje) because cooks used a small amount of cake batter to test their oven temperature before baking a large cake. Today, preparation method plays an important role in how cookies are classified – drop, molded, pressed, refrigerated, bar or rolled.

While we prefer to roll our sugar cookies in order to create the delightful smiley treats customers have come to love,  other dropped, pressed and molded sugar cookie recipes abound. So, whether your taste buds scream out for chocolate chip cookies, our famous Smiley Face sugar cookies or one of our other fabulous gourmet treats, we can help you find the perfect gift for any occasion.

One great holiday Gingerbread tradition is decorating Gingerbread Houses!

But did you ever wonder why gingerbread is a part of the holiday season, or even where gingerbread came from in the first place? We found this fun, informative article with all sorts of interesting facts about the history of gingerbread.

According to the story, gingerbread has been baked in Europe since the eleventh century. Depending on the specific location it might be a soft cake, a crisp, flat cookie, or warm, thick, dark squares of “bread.” Although the exact flavor could vary, gingerbread was usually cut into shapes such as men, women, stars or animals.

If it’s often in the form of a cookie, why is it called “gingerbread“? As the article explains:

In Medieval England gingerbread meant simply “preserved ginger” and was an adaptation of the Old French gingebras, derived from the Latin name of the spice, Zingebar. It was only in the fifteenth century that the term came to be applied to a kind of cake made with treacle, an uncrystalized syrup drained from raw sugar during the refining process, and flavored with ginger. Ginger was also discovered to have a preservative effect when added to pastries and bread, and this probably led to the development of recipes for ginger cakes, cookies, and flavored breads.

Gingerbread came to North America with the settlers from all over Europe who brought their traditions and family recipes. The German practice of making and decorating houses from gingerbread at Christmas time was especially prevalent in Pennsylvania, where there was a strong German influence. Many traditional German gingerbreads reappeared in this area, especially during the holiday season.

Gingerbread Cookies from Smiley Cookie honor the long standing tradition of gingerbread on the holidays!

At Smiley Cookie we put our own twist on the classic gingerbread cookie with our gingerbread smileys and mini gingerbread smileys, available in a variety of holiday gift sets. Contact us to check out our entire selection of gingerbread and other holiday cookies.

How about something more unique?

Think back to your childhood: remember how special a simple cookie made you feel? What about a cookie with a smiley face on it? We’re pretty sure a box full of smiley face cookies would make that special teacher adore you even more.

Gourmet Cookies are a great way to show a teacher you appreciate all that they do. With 144 custom color combos, special occasion designs, and six different shapes your options are endless. By letting your child help choose the cookies, the gift becomes even more special.

Also, our cookies are nut free, so they can be brought into any classroom without any concern that they might make a child sick.

Holiday Cookies Make a Great Gift For A Teacher!

Teachers have plenty of mugs. Be ahead of the holiday game and order a custom designed box of cookies for that special teacher today! We take pride in offering a high-quality, great-tasting, fun cookie that just can’t help but bring a smile to your face.

Questions? Just contact us and let us help you make someone’s day just a bit more smiley.

You can enter by tweeting your answer @Smileycookie with the tag #StarSmile or by leaving a guess in the comments section of the StarSmile post on our Facebook page. At stake is a dozen of our gourmet Gingerbread Cookies that we’ll deliver to your door.

Guess as often as you like and we’ll keep adding hints on Facebook and Twitter every now and then to help you out. We’ll randomly draw the winner from everyone who guessed correctly at 3 PM today. Get your friends involved by using the social media sharing buttons below.

But enough of the contest mumbo jumbo, can you tell us who this famous smile belongs to?

Guess who this famous Smile belongs to and you could win a dozen Gingerbread Cookies!

You can enter by tweeting your answer @Smileycookie with the tag #StarSmile or by leaving a guess in the comments section of the StarSmile post on our Facebook page. At stake is a dozen of our gourmet chocolate chip cookies that we’ll deliver to your door.

Guess as often as you like and we’ll keep adding hints on Facebook and Twitter every now and then to help you out. We’ll randomly draw the winner from everyone who guessed correctly at 3 PM today. Get your friends involved by using the social media sharing buttons below.

But enough of the contest mumbo jumbo, can you tell us who this famous smile belongs to?

Win delicious Chocolate Chip Cookies by guessing whose famous Smile this is!

We like these people. We want to give them good gifts. But why do they have to make it so difficult?

Edible gifts, such as cookie gifts, are the answer. Really good edible gifts offer that personal touch that says you put some thought into your present. They won’t take up space or sit in the closet after the holidays. And who doesn’t like to eat?

You can choose your cookie gifts with the recipient in mind — pick a color, pick a shape, choose a flavor, or add chocolates, a mug, and other items for a personal touch.

Instead of walking the mall until your arches fall and racking your brain trying to come up with appropriate gifts, you can sit at home in a comfortable chair and take care of everyone on your gift list.

Your great Uncle Mike? The guy in the cubicle next to yours? Your picky cousin Marge? Take care of them all in a few minutes at SmileyCookie.com. We’ll do the baking, the decorating, the wrapping and the shipping. We’ll make sure your gift is everything you want and everything your recipient will love.

Give a cookie gift everyone will love!

We bet when everyone has forgotten the ties and giftcards or holidays past, they’ll remember the great cookie gift that made them smile.

Gift dilemma solved.

You can enter by tweeting your answer @Smileycookie with the tag #StarSmile or by leaving a guess in the comments section of the StarSmile post on our Facebook page. At stake is a dozen of our Jack O Lantern Cookies that we’ll deliver to your door.

Guess as often as you like and we’ll keep adding hints on Facebook and Twitter every now and then to help you out. We’ll randomly draw the winner from everyone who guessed correctly at 3 PM today. Get your friends involved by using the social media sharing buttons below.

But enough of the contest mumbo jumbo, can you tell us who this famous smile belongs to?

Want to win Halloween Cookies? Just name the celeb this smile belongs to!