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Homemade Gifts From Your Kitchen

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I have a few hostess gifts to give and as I pondered what to take, my mind ran, as it usually does, to the kitchen! I love to cook and I got to thinking about ideas of things to bake for our hosts and hostesses.

I heard about these little wonders last year…

See this blog for Rolo turtle candies and the super easy recipe! I must try these! Caramel, chocolate and pretzels. As Ina Garten would say, “How bad can that be?” =)

We’ve all seen the Cookies in a Jar, but this is Brownie Pie Mix! Talk about a handy thing to receive. Pie all ready to dump and bake!

Go here for the recipe for the Brownie Pie Mix.

Little loaves of bread given “wrapped” in the little bread pan and accompanied by a cute little dish of butter would make any one’s day! If you’re not a bread baker (hello, Christy – sorry, couldn’t resist!), you could even buy the frozen loaves and bake them! It could be your secret!


This little jar holds homemade granola and would make several jars at once. It looks so yummy!

The Granola would be so unique – and even healthy, if there was someone who couldn’t eat sweets. This is sweet, but not like cookies or fudge!

I loved the presentation of this next gift. The cookies are any little snowball cookie your family makes, but then they popped them into those little candy wrappers, cut off the lid to a cardboard egg carton and made that their tray! Clever!

Here’s another simple, but very elegant gift – chocolate dipped candy canes. They rolled them in some kind of little sprinkle to embellish them even more. Wrap them in a simple white box with tissue and a red ribbon. What a lovely gift!

I think I’ve decided to make these Cream cheese Coffee Cakes for two of my gifts. I’ve made these cakes for years. The recipe makes four at a time. You make the dough the night before – so you split up the process a bit. They are as good as any coffee bread you’d get at Panera! I’m going to buy a Christmas oven mitt for each cake and slide the cake inside of it. The bread will be longer than the mitt, so it will be seen and make a nice presentation. Try this recipe! I’m telling you, it’s so good and not as hard as you’d think! You can wrap them and freeze them until they’re needed. You don’t have to give them away – you probably won’t want to! Save them for Christmas morning for your family!

Happy baking!

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