I wanted to post about the various things that I put in my holiday gift baskets this year - hopefully, if you were lucky enough to get one (ha!), you won't be reading this post because then you will realize just how easy the items are to make. I love making food and homey gifts for the holidays - it is so difficult to know what to get everyone and I like to give something that has just a little bit of thought put into it. I love giftcards as much as the next guy, but to me, the holidays are about making it a bit more special. Mind you, this is coming from someone who won a $15 giftcard to Target in our Christmas Eve White Elephant gift exhange and is totally pumped about it, but you get what I mean.
Here are some of things that my gift baskets included:
- Bittersweet chocolate-covered peppermint sandwich cookies
- Bittersweet chocolate-covered pirouline cookies
- A mixture of vanilla brownies, fudge brownies and blondies
- Homemade Vanilla extract
- Punition cookies
- Brownie biscotti
- Chocolate-peanut butter fudge (in cookie cutters!)
- Apple butter
- Pomegranate jelly
- Gourmet hot cocoa and holiday marshmallows
I did not take as many pictures as I would have liked of the finished baskets before I gave them away....but I used supplies that I have been collecting for awhile. I try to package my cookies in airtight jars, tins or these wax-lined kraft paper bags. Here are a few great websites for bottles, boxes and packaging (also check around at your local discounts stores for good deals throughout the year):
- Specialty bottle
- Papermart
- Nashville wraps
- Container store (I like their food-safe wax tissue paper; you can also get it from Martha [glassine paper])
2 comments:
WOW!! You really cooked up quite a storm! Looks great!
Sounds yummy! Looks pretty! Many thanks for sharing this post with others! Writing the articles is similar to creating the essays! The process is not easy but possible! Happy blogging!
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