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    Easy recipes for sharing home baked treats

    On The Monday Box you'll find creative care package recipes for cookies, brownies, and loaves, all with love as the secret ingredient.  These baked goods travel well and stay fresh for a long time. 

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    Take a look at the latest posts for care package ideas and recipes. Which will you bake first?

    • Puffy Funfetti cookies with colorful jimmies sprinkles, sandwiched with chocolate frosting.
      Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies (Sandwich Cookies)
    • Thick, cake like Honey Cookies, some with a coating of white, lemon scented icing on top.
      Honey Cookies (Israeli Duvshaniyot)
    • Squares of soft, fluffy, dark chocolate snack cake topped with powdered sugar.
      Chocolate Snack Cake
    • Cappuccino Cookies with crackled tops and chunks of white chocolate.
      Cappuccino Cookies with Homemade Cappuccino Chips
    • Cut squares of dense, chewy Biscoff Blondies topped with drizzled Biscoff icing and sprinkled with toffee bits.
      Biscoff Blondies
    • Squeeze the Day themed care package filled with yellow or lemon items with box flaps decorated in yellow with images of lemon slices and Squeeze the Day fonts.
      Squeeze the Day Care Package (Lemon Themed Gift Box Idea)

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    • Cookies
    • 3-2-1 Microwave Mug Cake
    • Brownies/ Blondies/Cookie Bars
    • Quick Bread/ Loaves/ Snack Cakes

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    Reader Favorites

    These are the most popular recipes on The Monday Box right now! Try one today!

    • Sliced loaf of honey cake on a white platter.
      Honey Applesauce Cake
    • Closeup of raisin biscuit squares with golden crust speckled with raisins.
      Golden Raisin Biscuit Cookies
    • Closeup of a cut square of cake showing fluffy curmb.
      Coconut Milk Snack Cake
    • Pastel colored cookies with crackled tops.
      Flourless Soft Almond Cookies (Pasticcini di Mandorle)
    • Chocolate Espresso Biscotti
    • Chocolate frosted mug cake a bowls of mix-ins
      Cake Mix Mug Cake

    Hanukkah Treats

    Hanukkah desserts and sweet treats for the Festival of Lights

    • Gold foil wrapped Homemade Chocolate Coins (Hanukkah Gelt) with small, wooden dreidels
      Homemade Golden Chocolate Coins (Hanukkah Gelt)
    • Chocolate covered peanut butter candy in star shapes with Hanukkah sprinkles.
      Chocolate Peanut Butter Hanukkah Candy
    • A tray filled with golden-brown rugelach pastries topped with crushed freeze dried raspberries and sparkling sugar, surrounded by blue Hanukkah decorations, dreidels, and chocolate coins.
      Raspberry Rugelach
    • Chocolate Espresso Spritz cookies pressed in dreidle shapes, sandwiched with melted chocolate and decorated with nonpareils.
      Chocolate Espresso Spritz Cookies
    • Lemon Stars- sweet-sour lemon icing makes these lemony star cut-out cookies shine! | The Monday Box
      Lemon Stars
    • Honey Gingerbread Cookies
      Honey Gingerbread Cookies

    See all our Hanukkah recipes →

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    Christmas Treats and Holiday Baking

    Festive Christmas cookies and homemade sweets perfect for holiday parties, cookie trays, and gifts.

    • Chocolate covered Christmas Oreos with candy eyes, a red candy nose, and pipe cleaner antlers.
      Christmas Oreos Rudolph Cookies
    • Stack of iced gingerbread bars.
      Lebkuchen Recipe
    • Diagonal photo of Decorated Grinch Cookies and Green Sprinkled Cookies on a white platter.
      Decorated Grinch Cookies
    • Stack of Chocolate Shortbread Cookies with on end dipped in white and milk chocolate sprinkled with nonpareils.
      Chocolate Shortbread Cookies
    • Marzipan Cookies topped with almonds or powdered sugar.
      Marzipan Cookies
    • Chocolate covered Graham Cracker squares with sprinkles or white chocolate drizzles.
      Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers

    See all our Christmas recipes →

    Care Package Themes

    Care package ideas for every occasion. These care package themes and recipes make it easy to spread happiness.

    • Packed Thanksgiving Care Package with turkey decoration on the box flaps.
      Thanksgiving Care Package Ideas
    • Collage of different military care packages with title text overlay
      Deployed Military Care Package
    • Image collage showing the Grinch Care Package and the cookies, brownies and candy that go inside.
      The Ultimate Grinch Care Package Guide
    • Individual Birthday Mug Cake with a lit candle on top.
      Birthday Party in a Box
    • Pawprint shaped dog cookies with a silicone mold.
      Paw Prints Dog Care Package
    • Filled Christmas Care Package with Santa decorated box flaps.
      Christmas Care Package Ideas (Santa Theme)

    See More Care Package Ideas →

    Candy

    Quick and easy homemade candy recipes perfect for gifting. The best holiday candy, chocolate confections, and tasty sweets!

    • Thanksgiving Peanut Chews Candy Pops
    • Closeup of white chocolate bark pieces with tree decorations.
      Thanksgiving White Chocolate Bark
    • Chocolate Bark Thanksgiving Turkeys
      Thanksgiving Chocolate Turkeys
    • Sliced marzipan log
      Marzipan Recipe
    • Ring pretzels filled with chocolate and sprinkles.
      Christmas Pretzels: Easy, Fast, and Fun
    • Marzipan Chocolates in a gift tin
      Marzipan Chocolates
    • Flat discs of marzipan imprinted with a snowman cookie stamp.
      Marzipan Springerle Candy
    • Gold ball ornaments and cups of Nonpareil chocolate candies coated in different colored sprinkles.
      Nonpareil Candy

    See More Candy Recipes →

    I'm Wendy, a baker, care package maker, and smile creator. On The Monday Box you'll find care package inspiration and recipes for delicious treats that make it easy for you to share home baked love. Let's spread happiness, one cookie at a time!

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    I'm Wendy, a baker, care package maker, and smile creator. On The Monday Box you’ll find care package inspiration and recipes for delicious treats that make it easy for you to share home baked love. Let’s spread happiness, one cookie at a time!

    More about me →

    Thanksgiving Favorites

    • Gingerbread cookies cut out in leaf shapes iced with fall colors.
      Gingerbread Fall Leaf Cookies
    • A loaf of sliced pumpkin bread sits on a wooden board, with two plates holding additional slices and gold-colored spoons nearby.
      Downeast Maine Pumpkin Bread
    • Pumpkin Butterscotch Cakes
      Pumpkin Butterscotch Cakes
    • Closeup of 2 pumpkin biscotti with cranberries and bottoms dipped in chocolate.
      Pumpkin Biscotti With Cranberries
    • Pumpkin cookies with white chocolate chips are arranged around a small bowl of pumpkin puree. Some extra white chocolate chips are scattered on the cookies and the surface.
      Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Decorated Thanksgiving Sugar Cookies
      Decorated Thanksgiving Sugar Cookies

    Hanukkah Treats

    • A tray filled with golden-brown rugelach pastries topped with crushed freeze dried raspberries and sparkling sugar, surrounded by blue Hanukkah decorations, dreidels, and chocolate coins.
      Raspberry Rugelach
    • Choclate Rugelach cookies with spirals of chocolate filling.
      Chocolate Rugelach
    • Chocolate covered peanut butter candy in star shapes with Hanukkah sprinkles.
      Chocolate Peanut Butter Hanukkah Candy
    • Gold foil wrapped Homemade Chocolate Coins (Hanukkah Gelt) with small, wooden dreidels
      Homemade Golden Chocolate Coins (Hanukkah Gelt)

    Christmas Baking

    • Winter Wonderland Chocolate Dipped Oreos
      Winter Wonderland Chocolate Dipped Oreos
    • Green Grinch Brownies with a red heart on top on a green plate next to book.
      Grinch Brownies
    • Round ball shaped cookies coated in powdered sugar.
      Cinnamon Snowball Cookies
    • Closeup of sliced gingerbread quick bread.
      Gingerbread Loaf Cake

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