During the Victorian era, cookies were known as sweet biscuits and were eaten only by paupers, who were forced to substitute rich, hearty tallow with inexpensive sugar. Relish this sweet substitution with today's Groupon: for $10, you get $20 worth of treats at Cookie Connection. This Groupon is valid at the locations in Sacramento, Roseville, and Woodland.

Equipped with house-made recipes, as well as preservative-free ingredients, the expert treat crafters at Cookie Connection bake fresh made-from-scratch batches of their sugary circles every morning, helping the shop garner an award for Best Gourmet Cookies from Sacramento Magazine in 2008. The roster of everyday cookie selections ($1.65 each or $15/dozen) beckons sweet teeth to sink into 16 varieties such as M&M chocolate chip and Crackle, a chocolate-brownie cookie that, like a soldier camouflaged in a snowy land, is covered in powdered sugar. Sweets shoppers can sync up their daily planner with the lineup of changing flavors ($1.65 each or $15/dozen), which includes Tuesday's molasses and Friday's mint-chocolate Fantasy fudge. On Thursday, the staff artfully splashes colorful frosting across decorated sugar cookies ($2 each or $21/dozen) to give form to footballs, Easter eggs, and flowers. Customers can also opt for personalized photo cookies ($3 each) that serve as far tastier edible memories than crepes rolled from diary pages.