10 Homemade Food Gifts

Gourmet presents you can afford to give.

I enjoy giving (and receiving homemade food gifts) as well. I’ve made and/or received: salsa, hot mustard, pepper jelly, bourbon balls, peppermint bark, pretzels dipped in chocolate (then rolled in nuts), biscotti, cookies...

As another poster noted, it’s never too early to think about what we’re making for homemade holiday gifts. Last year I did a peppermint hot cocoa mix and spiced nuts. Not sure what I’m doing this year...I like...

Talk of holiday baking made me think of last January’s great thread on Homemade Food Gifts You Gave (linked below) which had a huge number of great ideas. I hereby request GG Mora’s recipe for hazelnut cardamom cookies....

I dont know if you folks who make these homemade food gifts know it or not, but I have heard a large percentage of people dont eat these gifts and throw them away. I know I am very cautious of food made in others kitchens without...

Any homemade food gifts out there? I remember my mom used to make jars of “Russian Tea” it had cinnamon, sugar, iced tea mix, and tang...there might have been other ingredients as well. I have made infused vodkas and...

The holiday issue of Fine Cooking has a bunch of great ideas for holiday food gifts, including homemade granola, which I think I’m going to do (but using my own recipe rather than theirs).

Now that the holidays are just a memory, I’m wondering what any of you did about homemade food gifts this past holiday season, whether they were well received, and whether you would make them again. This summer, I canned...

We had lots of discussion in November and December about the wide range of homemade food gift ideas. We’ve developed a tradition of giving food gifts to the kids' teachers at Christmas and at the end of the year. My mom was...

chocolate bark too “Restoration Hardware”. That got me to thinking. Target carries those cookie mixes in a jar now all nicely tied up to look homemade. It didn’t use to be so readily available. Does this make...

I am part of a small department in my office (less than 10 people) and I would love to give everyone a small homemade food gift for the holidays. I’m looking for something inexpensive to make that I can wrap beautifully for...

I’ve been trying to think of quality recipes I can make for some gifts this year. The biggest problem I find is that things go bad pretty quickly, a week or two it seems at most for most sauces, salsas and whatnot....

I’ve been thinking about making holiday gifts for a number of people on my gift list, but I haven’t done a thing to begin. I feel like I should get the ball rolling soon, otherwise what would be a fun project might...

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