The Cooking Actress: Homemade Holiday Gift Ideas-Part 2

Friday, December 20, 2013

Homemade Holiday Gift Ideas-Part 2

I AM IN DISNEY WORLD RIGHT NOW. RIGHT THIS SECOND. THAT IS WHERE I AM! OHMYGOODNESS I'M SO EXCITED I COULD CRY! Mmmmmmmm but anyway, you poor dears who aren't in the most magical place ever, you still deserve a blog post. And the holidays are a coming. So I have a little listy list for you people with some AMAZING, easy, homemade (food related) holiday gift ideas. This list is similar to last year's....but has more stuff. And I've actually now given some of these. So hooray!

You read this post. I go see Beast's Castle. Deal?

Homemade Peanut Butter/Variation of Nut Butters

(such as homemade nutella):

Last year I gave my bestie Alex this Chocolate Peanut Butter:

Process peanuts until a ball forms. Add in chocolate. Continue to process until smooth. Add salt if desired.

Pour into a container and store in the refrigerator.

And I also gave my cousin Emily this Homemade Dark Chocolate Walnut Butter.

Cookie Dough:

I gave my brother, Josh, some frozen cookie dough balls from this recipe.

These two methods are particularly good ideas for giving cookie dough (I used the 1st one).

Make sure to include baking instructions with the dough, and keep them in the freezer!

For some ideas of cookie recipes to give as dough, click here.

Cookies:

Giving cookies for Christmas is a classic! I used empty, clean, pringles cans to package the cookies I was gifting this year, and then I wrapped them in wrapping paper! So fun and easy. Just make sure that your cookies aren't too big to fit! Here are some great ideas for cookie recipes to gift this holiday season:

Homemade Vanilla Extract

This is still one of my favorites. Homemade vanilla extract is SO simple, and makes such an adorable gift! That little beauty up there was one of my gifts to my future MIL. :)