For too long, cookies have been relegated to a supportive capacity, holding together ice-cream sandwiches or giving their lives to make milk chunkier. Give cookies a well-deserved starring role with today's Groupon: for $17, you get $35 worth of freshly baked cookies and gifts at Cookie Expressions in West Seneca. This Groupon can be redeemed in-store or by phone at 888-232-2447; the deal value can also be used toward the cost of shipping.

For more than 25 years, Cookie Expressions has been expressing its love for fresh baked goods by whipping up artful cookie arrangements for tons of occasions. Woo the goodwill of sweetheart bosses or bossy sweethearts on October 16 with a six long-stem cookie bouquet, featuring a half-dozen chocolate-chip cookies, dressed in their fanciest red cellophane evening wraps, and arranged with baby's breath and a fern to resemble a box of roses ($33.95). Any number of the get well soon bouquets ($32.95–$42.95) will help rally hospital-bound loved ones to quickly regain the use of their jaw, while the soda glass bouquet ($33.95) also can be used to toast to their speedy recovery.

Aside from traditional chocolate chip, Cookie Expressions puts its high-quality ingredients to good use in peanut butter, oatmeal raisin, chocolate-chocolate chip, and sugar varieties. All cookie orders are wrapped in a cellophane vest, ensuring they arrive safely to be appropriately maimed by your biscuit-butchering bicuspids. The tasteful designs also utilize attractive baskets, mugs, vases, and other keepsake containers to make the memory of the special gift last long past the final mouth-pleasing morsel.