Edible gifts are the easiest way to give a present that will be casual but from the heart. Here you will find 6 gift ideas that you can easily make at home just in time for Christmas!
Edible gifts are the easiest way to give a present that will be casual but from the heart. It is a good way to give gifts on various occasions, such as holidays, birthdays or meetings with long-lost friends. And if you know me a while you know I absolutely love making homemade goodies as gifts!
Undoubtedly, such a gift never puts the recipient in an awkward situation when they feel obliged to pay back. I love such gifts to give and receive! It can be a homemade cake or a dessert in a fancy jar tied with a coloured ribbon and decorated with a label printed on a home printer. Sometimes I buy some small preserves just for the original jar, and then use them for such edible gifts.
For lovers of the kitchen, apart from sweets, you can present sets of unusual, sophisticated cheeses or sauces, oils and vinegars. Olives, capers, dried tomatoes or cheese, feta, in a marinade of olive oil and wine vinegar, with the addition of garlic and herbs – you can create various sets of delicacies, ready-made or home-made, and even tiny pickled cucumbers will be a good gift for a culinary twisted gourmet.
Here is a list of my suggestions that I will be making this year of Edible Christmas gifts that you can use as small additions to the main gifts or create individual, small gifts from them. You can combine several together by putting them in a larger box or basket, wrapping them in cellophane, or in paper or bag.
You can upload all those recipe in a easy e-book below! This guide includes printable gift tags!
1. Gingerbread truffles
Those delicious Christmas pralines are awesome! If you have some gingerbread or spicy cookies, you should like this recipe (although I made these pralines with my homemade gingerbread for them). The truffles are quick to make, velvety inconsistency and they are tasty for everyone.
It is a great idea for an edible gift, but it is worth ensuring a worthy packaging for this delicacy. A nice box and decorative curlers will do the trick. Store the finished truffles in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks.
Truffles
Ingredients
- 250 gram gingerbread men cookies
- 100 gram almond butter
- 30 gram coconut oil
- 100 gram dark chocolate
Instructions
- Place your gingerbread cookies in a blender and blitz till it forms crumbs.
- Melt your coconut oil and add to a blender followed by the nut butter.
- Blend all the ingredients till it starts coming together. Check if it forms a ball by squashing the dough between your fingers. Form 20 truffles. Put them in the fridge.
- Melt your dark chocolate over a pan with hot water. Take your truffles out. Dip each truffles in the chocolate. Chocolate should set in few seconds as the truffles are cold!
- Put them in a nice container 😊
2. Gingerbread nut butter
Spicy peanut butter seasoned with honey and homemade gingerbread spice is a great idea for an original, very tasty gift. It is very versatile. You can spread it on toast or waffles. It would be a great additional topping to anyone’s oats! YUM. You can make it easier on yourself and just use ready-made nut butter. If you don’t have one of the ingredients it is very easy to just swap them around to suit your taste or availability
Gingerbread nut butter
Ingredients
- ½ cup cashews
- ½ cup almonds
- ½ cup hazelnuts
- ½ cup coconut shreds
- ¼ tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp ground allspice
- ⅛ tsp ground nutmeg
- ⅛ tsp ground cloves
- 3 tbsp coconut oil
Instructions
- Toast your nuts in a frying pan or in the oven till slightly brown and set aside. Now gently toast you coconut -be careful not to burn it!
- Add all you nuts into a high speed blender and blitz till it form butter.. This process takes around 10 minutes. You will have to stop once in a while and scrape the sides of the processor.
- Melt coconut oil.
- Add your spices and blend follow with melted coconut oil.
- Transfer to a nice looking jar.
3. Spicy Pear butter
Pear butter is another simple and very tasty edible gift idea. It works well as an addition to toast or pancakes. You can stuff it with muffins, use it as a fat substitute when you bake cakes. . Or you can eat it with a spoon during lazy Christmas evenings when you have already eaten traditional dishes, but still want a little something good 🙂 Of course after you have given some as gift 😁.
Pear butter
Equipment
- slow cooker
Ingredients
- 3 lb pears (1300 grams)
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp nutmeg powder
- 1 tsp ginger powder
Instructions
- Place chopped apples in the base of a slow cooker. Stir in the spices.
- Cover and cook on high for 4-5 hours or on low for 8-10 hours. You may want to stir it partway through (only once).
- After cooking through, blend it until smooth using an immersion blender. Alternatively, you can work in batches and carefully puree the apple butter in a stand blender.
- Storage- keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. You may freeze for up to 6 months; make sure to leave lids ajar and to leave space for expansion if you are freezing right in the jars.
4. Real Chocolate granola
I believe that it is a fantastic gift for a friend, colleague or loved one. Through a self-prepared edible gift like this, you are able to show how important the person is toyou. What is not to be liked about chocolate ?
Fruit lovers can be pampered by mixing granola with dried cranberries, bananas, dates, mulberry or raisins.
Chocolate granola
Ingredients
- 2 cups oats
- 1 cup nuts
- ½ cup chia
- ½ cup coconut shreds
- 3 tbsp flax meal
- 2 tbsp flax seeds whole
- 3 tbsp cacao nibs
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- ¾ cup dark chocolate
- 4 tbsp coconut sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C and line the baking sheet with archement paper.
- Add your dry ingredients to a bowl and mix through.
- Melt the coconut oil , add maple syrup and mix with your dry ingredients.
- Place the granola on a baking sheet and bake for around 20 minutes till golden in color and crunchy!
- In a small bowl melt your chocolate over a pot with hot water.
- Take the granola out of the oven and while still hot add your chocolate. Mix through till melted!
- ENJOY!
5. Kraut – fermented vegetables
It is an excellent gift for gourmets who, apart from the taste, also care about the health of what they eat – give your loved ones delicious, healthy and alive ferment 🙂 It contains live probiotic bacteria and lots of love! Kraut can be eaten straight from the jar or as side dishes.
Kraut
Ingredients
- 250 gram cabbage
- 80 gram beetroot
- 4 gram garlic
- 6.5 gram salt
Instructions
- Shred the beets and dice the garlic. Remove the large exterior leaves of the cabbage and save them for later before thinly slicing the rest of the cabbage.
- Combine all your ingredients in a large bowl and mix well. Let them sit there for 1 hour as this will help pull the water out from the cabbage. Start slightly pounding the cabbage to release the moisture.
- Transfer your mixture to a fermenting container and really compact it down. The goal is to use the water present in the vegetables to submerge all the kraut fully.
- Place your whole cabbage leaves on top of your kraut and press it down. You want to keep everything under the brine. Leave it in a room temperature. Keep checking the kraut to make sure that enough brine has developed to submerge your kraut fully. Leave it there for 21 days. After that, it’s active and ready to eat! Store the kraut in your refrigerator.
6. Syrup
https://pronounced.ie/honey-and-citrus-syrup/
Love these holiday recipes. The chocolate granola looks delicious, can’t wait to try it!
Author
thank you x
These recipes all look so good! Definitely need to save a few to my list! The chocolate granola and gingerbread nut butter for sure
Author
thank you xx those are my actual gifts this year for my friends 🙂
This is so good! 1. Bc they’re vegan 🙌 but 2. Bc they all look and sound so freaken yummy! I also love that these are such sweet mindful gifts to give to people and they do not have to break the bank.
Author
thank you xxxx
I’m a vegetarian, with a view to becoming a vegan soon, so these recipes will be super handy!
I would try any of these! Especially that chocolate granola and the pear butter!
Author
thanks!
wow these are all great and love that they are vegan!
Such good ideas! Especially love nut butter and granola. Great recipes!
Author
thank you! Great to hear 🙂 The chocolate granola is a huge hit in my house
These are such yummy ideas! Gingerbread Nut Butter- oh, my goodness I can’t wait to try it!!
Author
thank you! I love that nut butter 🙂
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Author
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