I love to make food gifts for my friends and neighbors. Over the years, I have made flavored coffee creamers, pumpkin butter, Amish peanut butter, beer bread mix (where you put the ingredients in a cellophane gift bag) with instructions to add a can of beer and how to bake. This year I am making a group gift basket for my co-workers with several flavored coffees, teas, hot chocolate, latte, and hot cider mixes (all bought at an Amish store) for my coworkers. I’ll probably add my homemade coffee creamer and maybe some homemade chocolate dipped spoons.
I have 2 great books, ‘Gifts of Good Taste’, and ‘Gifts that Taste Good,’ by Leisure Arts, that have great food gift ideas. Also, if you google, ‘gift mixes’ you can find some great ideas. People really like getting this kind of gift. I usually line the basket with a nice Christmas towel and tuck an ornament or something similar in the basket (usually something that I bought at the end of season 75% off sales the year before). There are so many creative things you can do.
Another favorite food gift I like to make are pizzelle cookies. They are made with a special pizzelle cookie maker that resembles a waffle maker only with flat irons. They make a wafer thin cookie that is very lacey and pretty. They make great gifts.