10 Homemade Food Gifts

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How about peanut (or other nut) brittle? It’s a great homemade food gift that just happens to be vegan, if you use one of the recipes that doesn’t call for butter (or maybe substitute margarine in one that does).

They are time-consuming, but for the past 20 years, this Gringa has made tamales as gifts. I give them to all the neighbors, people in carpools, relatives, and we eat them ourselves on Christas morning and beyond. NOthing says...

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Your suggestions appreciated for your favorite homemade holiday gifts. In the past I’ve done the usual cookies, breads, candies, spice rubs, infused oils & vinegars, mustards, fruit preserves, jams, compotes and even...

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...

If you are giving gifts to alcohol-drinking folks, homemade limoncello is nice. Of course, I live in a lemon-growing area, so the lemons are free for me. :) That star anise vodka sounds good as well. One year when my sister was in...

What are people making for homemade holiday gifts this year? What recipes have been a success in the past? or is it too early for this topic? TIA!

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....

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).

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...

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