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Biscotti that ship
The biscotto was engineered for exactly this — twice-baked, dry, and unbothered by a week in transit. 60 American bakeries are verified to ship it nationally. Here is every one, and what they bake.
Verified here is narrow: the bakery’s own website says it ships, on the date we checked. This page carries no affiliate links and no paid placements — if that ever changes, the disclosure will sit right here, above the first bakery. We have not yet tasted these by mail; Assaggio N.° I is ordering from every bakery on this list, and its verdicts will land on this page when the blind tasting is done.
Biscotti keep for weeks in a tin, which makes them the rare food gift that forgives the mail. For December delivery, order early and check each bakery’s own posted deadline — small shops close their shipping windows before the carriers do. The two bakeries that say cantucci on the label — Bruno’s and Enrico Biscotti Co. — are flagged below. Baking the gift instead? The Christmas cookies of Italy, region by region. And if the hard part is not what to send but what to say: twenty occasions, three budgets each, and the lines to write in the card. And if you are reading this in Hawaii, this page is not a convenience but the whole list — no bakery in the Register is a drive away.
California
Petaluma · whole almond, salted pistachio, cranberry, orange chocolate chip, anise almond, chocolate hazelnut
Disclosure: this site and this bakery have the same owner. The listing stands because it was verified exactly the way every other listing was, but common ownership means we cannot pretend to judge them — they are recused from Assaggio N.° I and will never appear in a ranking here.
Colorado
Wheat Ridge · almond, chocolate, chocolate chip
Connecticut
New Haven · est. 1922 · chocolate, chocolate dipped, lemon, vanilla
Florida
Port St. Lucie · est. 1926 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate dipped, fig
Tamarac · almond, chocolate chip
Home-based cottage bakery with a rum- and bourbon-infused line.
Boynton Beach · est. 1961
Illinois
Chicago Heights · est. 1911 · anise almond, pistachio, orange chocolate, blueberry vanilla
Baking in Chicago Heights since 1911; its signature is a soft biscotti rather than the hard twice-baked style.
Chicago · est. 1904 · almond, hazelnut
Little Italy bakery in the same family since 1904; sells its hazelnut version as biscotti di noci.
Indiana
Kouts · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, cranberry, lemon
Kentucky
Louisville · almond, cranberry almond, double chocolate espresso, ginger, macadamia white chocolate
Louisiana
New Orleans · est. 1905 · almond, anise, anise iced, inglese, regina
Sicilian gelateria and pasticceria in Mid-City; the biscotti case still carries the old Sicilian forms, Biscotti Regina and Biscotti Inglese.
Chalmette · est. 1965
Chalmette · est. 1965
Covington · est. 1965
Mandeville · est. 1965
Massachusetts
Boston · est. 1926 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate dipped, fig
North End bakery open around the clock; ships cookie assortments anywhere in the continental US.
Boston · almond, anise, chocolate dipped almond
Maryland
Baltimore · est. 1956
States it makes over thirty varieties of Italian cookies and biscotti.
Minnesota
Virginia · almond, almond chocolate, chocolate pistachio
Iron Range bakery that trades as The Italian Bakery and is equally known for Slovenian potica.
Missouri
Kansas City · est. 2007 · almond, chocolate, hazelnut, lemon, orange, vanilla
Kansas City · almond, chocolate, fig, lemon, pistachio
North Carolina
Charlotte
New Jersey
Perth Amboy · est. 1892 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate dipped, hazelnut
Chester · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, cranberry, gluten free
Grew out of a grandmother's recipe; the shop gives a free biscotti to every first-time visitor.
Chester · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, cranberry, gluten free
Evesham Twp
Jersey City · almond, chocolate, fig, prune, apricot
Tuscan bakery that sells its biscotti under the Prato name of cantucci, alongside brutti ma buoni.
New York
Highland · almond, anise, cappuccino chip, cherry chocolate amaretto, chocolate, cranberry orange
New York · est. 1994 · almond, anise, pignoli, pistachio, sesame
Started in 1994 as Pane Al Forno, a Gorizia family bread bakery; the family turned the business over to Italian cookies in 2019.
Staten Island · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, lemon, sesame
Queensbury · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate dipped, cranberry
Deer Park
Brooklyn · est. 1945 · almond, anise, fig, lemon, sesame
Bushwick fixture since 1945; the biscotti case also carries cuccidati and taralle.
Niagara Falls · est. 1920 · traditional almond, double chocolate, triple chocolate, chocolate dipped, cherry almond butter, lemon butter
Opened in 1920 by Tomaso and Addolorata Di Camillo and their eleven children; the Biscotti di Vino wine biscuit was introduced in 1979.
Clifton Park · gluten free
New York · est. 1892 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate dipped, hazelnut
Brooklyn · almond, anise, chocolate, hazelnut, pignoli, pistachio
Oakdale · est. 1980
Syracuse
Calverton · almond, anise, chocolate, cranberry, gluten free, hazelnut
Long Island small-batch baker working from what it describes as a 200-year-old Sicilian family recipe.
Ohio
Cleveland · est. 1958 · lemon
Bellaire
Walton Hills · est. 2004 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate dipped, cranberry
Walton Hills · est. 2004 · original almond, anise, chocolate chip, triple chocolate dipped
Oregon
Redmond · est. 1999 · almond, lemon
Founded in 1999 by a jazz-loving pastry chef; bakes a deliberately softer-than-traditional biscotti.
Pennsylvania
Sinking Spring · almond, anise, chocolate, gluten free, vanilla
Sinking Spring · vanilla, peach mango
Runs a rotating monthly theme flavor and a gluten-free line.
Greensburg · est. 2003 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate dipped, cranberry, hazelnut
Not closed — now a brand inside Sweetmore Bakeries, baking biscotti, biscottini and pizzelle for other companies' labels rather than its own. See Le Marche.
Perkasie · classic anise almond, chocolate dipped classic, sea-salted chocolate toffee, lemon poppy, espresso chocolate chip walnut, cranberry walnut
Second-generation family bakery; sells locally through an unstaffed honor stand on Creamery Road.
Perkasie · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, chocolate dipped, cranberry
Pittsburgh · est. 1993 · almond, chocolate, chocolate chip, lemon
Founded 1993 by Larry Lagattuta, who left a corporate desk to hand-shape oversized biscotti in the Strip District. The bakery inspired the 2001 film The Bread, My Sweet and taught bread classes for decades. Lagattuta died in June 2023; the ovens kept going.
Philadelphia · est. 1904 · anise, fruit and nut, chocolate chip almond, lemon blueberry, cranberry white chocolate, espresso
James Beard-nominated Italian Market landmark, open since 1904; rotates seasonal biscotti flavors by summer and winter.
Imperial
Philadelphia · est. 1992 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, cranberry, lemon
Philadelphia · est. 1992 · almond, anise, chocolate, chocolate chip, cranberry, lemon
Philadelphia · est. 1981 · honeynut, pistachio, anise, tiramisu, vanilla, chocolate
Rhode Island
Providence · est. 1916 · chocolate pistachio
Federal Hill panificio and pasticceria running since 1916; also bakes traditional wine biscuits.
Texas
Houston
Assaggio N.° I orders from every bakery above at retail, under an ordinary customer’s name, and tastes blind against a home-baked control. When it publishes, this page gains what no listing can claim: which of these actually survive the box. The method is already public.