Design Crafters

In addition to personalized holiday cards, what about sending your friends home with cookies in a jar? Well, maybe not the entire cookie itself, but all of the dry ingredients to make a batch of your favorite chocolate chip cookies…Really, when you think about the amount of food we all eat during the holidays, it makes sense to make a gift that can be used after the decorations have been put away for the year.

It is as simple as finding a decorative jar and filling it with ingredients. You can put each ingredient in individual bags or add it all in at once. Make sure you don’t add anything that has the potential to spoil, that’s best left to the gift receiver.

Another option is to gather the dry ingredients for your favorite cake and put in a decorative jar, accompanied by a cake pan in a fun shape, or even a bundt pan. Look for ways to personalize the gift and make it special.

Think about ways to take your favorite recipes and share them. How about the dry ingredients for pizza dough and a jar of tomato sauce you made from your summer tomatoes?

Or what about the dry ingredients for your favorite bread along with a gift certificate from you for 1 bread-making lesson. You would be giving a gift to both of you, spending fun time together.

Don’t forget you can always create spice mixtures, rubs, dry soup mixes, all with many of the ingredients you have in your kitchen already. Look around and see what cool foodie gifts you can create!