For: Your Local Chocoholic Recipe: Classic Chocolate Truffles Package truffles in colorful cellophane bags, then tie with a ribbon and the recipe. For an accompanying item, choose their passion: cute and cozy hot chocolate, or a bottle of bubbly? Complement the truffles with items like…:
For: The TV Chef Fanatic Recipe: Popcorn Olé For the TV food-show junkie in your life, pop up a batch of spicy popcorn from Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken of Two Hot Tamales fame. Bag and tie with a ribbon; attach the recipe and... Complete a chef-lover's gift basket with items like these:
For: The Grill Master Recipe: Spice-Rubbed Sirloin Steaks To please the griller in your family, mix up the spice rub and include it in a tin or baggie tied with a ribbon. Place the recipe in a colored envelope and add a complementary gift: Ideas for a grilling good time:
For: An English Garden Tea Host
Recipe: Popovers
If you are delivering this gift immediately, bake the popovers and include the recipe. Otherwise, measure the flour and salt in the popovers, place in a sealed baggie and attach instructions for completing the recipe, then add a gift:
High tea trinkets:
- Loop Teakettle
- Garden Gift Set (teapot, cups, tea)
- Tupelo Honey in Fluted Bottle
- Nonstick Popover Pan
For: The Bread (and Cheese) Lover Recipe: Nut Bread For the Atkins-be-damned bread fanatic, bake a loaf and tie with a ribbon with the recipe attached. For a trendy accompaniment, dipping oils are the rage, but we've also suggested premium cheeses and that wonder of all aromatic wonders, a bread machine. Bread-lovers' loves:
For: The Roman Holiday Dreamer Recipe: Biscotti Deliver everything they'd need for an antipasti picnic, with crisp biscotti as the sweet ending. Biscotti can be placed in a tin with the recipe, while antipasti ingredients like those below can be attractively arranged in a picnic basket. Quite Continental accompaniments:
For: The Cocktail Entertainer Recipe: Toasted Spiced Almonds Fill an ice bucket like the one below with your spicy almonds, then include the recipe in a small envelope on top. For the truly dedicated cocktail crowd, include the martini glasses and recipe book. Gifts that make it a party:
For: The Coffee Connoisseur Recipe: Pecan Coffee Cake This gift guarantees a good cup of Joe and sweet start to the day. Bake the coffee cake, wrap with colored plastic and tie with a bow, attaching recipe. Combine with a gift like one below; you could pack the mugs with the coffee beans for an attractive presentation. Good gifts are a-brewing:
For: A Neighborhood Cookie Monster Recipe: Chocolate Brownie Cookies A crowd-pleasing gift for all ages, make the cookies and fill a cookie jar like the one below with luscious chocolate cookies. Place the recipe in a note card on top to ensure that the jar's never empty. Accompany cookies with gifts like these:
For: The Breakfast Buff Recipe: Cranberry-Maple Muffins With a basket full of muffins, and recipe included, plus a gift of pancakes, bacon or just the right red skillet, they'll be greeting the holiday morning in style. Add a gift from this breakfast buffet:
For: A Perfect Pie Artist Recipe: Cherry-Berry Lattice Pie For the baker in your family, impress them by presenting a home-baked pie in a beautiful new pie dish. A spoon set or mixer could be wrapped separately, and don't forget to include the pie recipe in an envelope! Pie-maker's delights:
For: The Asian Cuisine Enthusiast
Recipe: Fresh Teriyaki Sauce
Give a taste of the East with a jar of homemade teriyaki sauce, tied with a ribbon and the recipe. Among the suggested gifts below, the knives will come in handy for all Asian cuisines.
East meets gift:
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