This week's them is recipes suitable for giving as gifts. Dubious Wonder hosts and does a fine job. It looks delicious- check out the fajitas for 4,000!
We entered our hot cocoa. Our Russian Tea recipe is also a nice gift in a jar, and the recipe we shared for a cheese ball and home-made crackers also would make a nice gift.
What gifts do you make in your kitchen?
I'm not very fancy, I just make various tea breads, and candy (like peppermint bark or turtles). I generally deliver the bread frozen, as I know that some people get so much Christmas food/ stuff, they either eat themselves sick or throw some away.
ReplyDeleteOne year I gave mason jars with the dry ingredients for Friendship Scones in them, with instructions written out on a nice label then tied with ribbon around the neck of the jar. But it seems that most people I know don't bake at all, even quickie stuff, so I don't think they cared for it much. Probably won't bother with that this year.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
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Spiced Mocha Mix
and maybe even a Bean Soup kit... I'm still thinking about that one - and will post about it soon!
I have received the greatest compliments for my assortments of Christmas cookies (and here I thought it was just a little extra I was doing, not a replacement for the gifts!)
ReplyDeleteBut a friend received Russian tea in a jar, with the recipe on the outside, one year. Ever since, it's her favorite winter drink. she almost does not cook at ALL but she'll put that together.
Various years:
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Cocoa mix
Chocolate spoons
Cookies (of course)
Minestrone soup-in-a-jar
Homemade marshmallows
Gingerbread
Tortiere
Cranberry meatballs
Warm-uppable chicken and mushroom spread
Mini gingerbread houses
Peppermint bark
Corn syrup suckers
Maple sugar candy
Gumsquares (as opposed to gumdrops ;-)