New York Metropolis’s Levain Bakery, established by former aggressive swimmers Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald, is known for each lengthy traces and scrumptious cookies. At 6 ounces, every cookie is gargantuan, gooey on the within, and chock-full of high-quality mix-ins. Accessible in packs of 4, eight, or 12, the Levain Bakery Signature Cookie Assortment—one in every of our picks for the finest reward baskets—consists of the store’s beloved basic Chocolate Chip Walnut, Darkish Chocolate Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip, and Oatmeal Raisin flavors. Whether or not your good friend is an ex–New Yorker or only a baked-goods hound, this reward pack is a legit approach to skip that notorious queue.