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44 DIY Food Gifts for Cooks That Are Way Sweeter Than Store-Bought

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A tasty DIY food gift is the present everyone loves, and it's an especially thoughtful gift for cooking enthusiasts. We have fun food gift ideas for everyone on your list. From creamy chocolate truffles and Christmas cookies to hot sauce and flavored syrups, there are food gift ideas for cooks and foodie friends. And with our cute packaging ideas, these homemade edible gifts will be the prettiest (and tastiest) gifts under the tree.

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Roasted Red Pepper Soup in a Jar

Roasted Red Pepper Soup in a glass Jar with a metal spoon
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What could be cozier on a cold day than a steaming bowl of soup? Share one of the most soul-warming homemade edible gift ideas: heat-and-eat soup. This red pepper soup recipe is gluten-free, fat-free, and low in calories (yet still full of flavor), so it's ideal for gifting. Package with a spoon for easy enjoyment.

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Cheddar Wafers

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Leave the packaged crackers on the shelf. These easy cheddar crackers can be ready in less than an hour—and are possible to prep up to a week in advance. From a snack for the kids to a classy cheese board addition, these crackers are among the most crowd-pleasing food gifts available.

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Toasted Seasoning Salt

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Credit: Andy Lyons
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Did you know that toasting salt in a skillet imparts a smoky flavor? Whip up a big batch of these savory seasoning blends. Meat-lovers can use it to season their steaks or burgers, and vegetarians can toss this DIY food gift with popcorn, nuts, or roasted chickpeas.

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Spiced Bourbon Cherries

Spiced Bourbon Cherries
Credit: Andy Lyons
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Like old fashioned cocktails? Then you'll love these bourbon cherries! Pair this homemade food gift with a set of cocktail glasses for a fun gift combo. These spiced cherries are flavored with bourbon, vanilla, and pepper—making them a must-have for home mixologists.

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Candied Ginger-and-Orange Icebox Cookies

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Our spicy-sweet candied ginger is a great food gift. Also known as crystallized ginger, this easy homemade Christmas treat makes a tasty addition to cookies, cakes, chocolate barks, and more. We suggest stirring it into tea, too!

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DIY Dip Seasoning Mixes

Dried Pepper Dip Seasoning in glass jars with red bow

This unique food gift is actually three presents in one! Create a pack of jars or bottles so your friends and family can season sour cream or plain Greek yogurt three tasty ways: Bloody Mary (tomato, celery, salt), Mediterranean (oregano, cumin, lemon), and Pesto (pine nuts, basil, garlic).

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Individual Brownie Trifles

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Credit: Jason Donnelly
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No one will be able to resist these adorable snowman desserts in a jar. This simple trifle recipe uses purchased brownies and whipped cream. Just layer them together and add the lid. To decorate the jars, cut off the toe end from one baby sock and wrap the cut end with a length of twine. Glue tiny pom-poms to the twine ends. Slide sock hat over top of the jar lid, then dress up with pom-poms and ribbon.

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Pancake Kit

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Credit: Andy Lyons
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A tasty pancake kit can make a surprisingly thoughtful and creative Christmas gift. Package together purchased or homemade pancake mix (see the link above for our buttermilk blend), a container of milk, pure maple syrup, and fresh fruit. Make identifying tags from twine and cardstock; an unused guest check transforms into an adorable recipe instructions sheet.

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Christmas Macaroon Mix

Christmas Macaroon Mix
Credit: Blaine Moats
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Candied cherries and orange peel spice up our coconut macaroons; pretty embellishments decorate their packaging. Place the disk lid on top of the filled jar, then place a scrapbooking paper circle on top and secure with the rim lid. Lastly, twist a white pipe cleaner on each end of a red pipe cleaner to complete this cookie food gift.

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Pecan Pie Bars

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Credit: Scott Little
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Reuse a plastic cookie tray from a cookie package to gift our delicious pecan pie bars with ease! Line the bottom of the tray with 3.25 x 2-inch mini paper loaf liners ($2, Wilton). Fill the liners with bar cookies and don't forget a decorative sticker to ID the pie-inspired flavor.

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Hot Chocolate Mix

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Cute for kids and grown ups alike, this hot chocolate mix makes the perfect last-minute homemade edible gift. It calls for only five ingredients and can be made in 15 minutes flat. Instruct recipients to mix with water and voila: A hug in a mug!

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Cookie Decorating Kit

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A cookie decorating kit is the perfect food gift for a family to use together on Christmas Eve. Make a batch of our classic cutout cookies, and package them with sprinkles and frosting. Print out cheery labels for a sweet DIY holiday food gift.

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Candy Crunch White Bark

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A candy-lover will chow down on this rich chocolate bark. Customize the recipe for your loved one by using their favorite candy bar in the filling. Finish off this sweet food gift with an adorable pup silhouette and lid liner.

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Spiced Apple Tea Mix

Spiced Apple Tea Mix
Credit: Blaine Moats
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Meet our top pick for a food gift to give to a holiday host, your friends at the office, or fellow book club members. This cozy tea mix features ginger, cloves, and dried apple chips, giving it the taste of apple pie in a cup. Craft a tea kit with paper cups, tea filters (from $4, Etsy), and our cute printable tags.

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Pizza Night Kit

Pizza Night Kit
Credit: Jason Donnelly
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Delight a neighbor or friend with a make-at-home dinner for the evening. Use our recipes for pizza dough and sauce, and tie up bundles of classic pizza toppings. To package this creative gift, use a pizza box and stick on a cute custom label.

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Triple-Pepper Hot Sauce

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Credit: Andy Lyons
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Spice up your (er, their) life! Three kinds of chile peppers make this hot sauce a perfect food gift for the daredevil diners in your circle. Print out custom labels and tie mild dried chiles to the bottles to hint at the heat inside.

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Savory Herb Salt Rub

Savory Herb Salt Rub
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A master griller will love our herb-infused custom salt rub, and it's a cinch to make. Package the seasoning mixture in glass bottles, then glue twine in a spiral for a cool top. Wrap burlap and a label around each bottle for a custom finish to this DIY food gift.

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Triple-Chocolate Truffles

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Credit: Kritsada Panichgul
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Delight all the chocolate-lovers with a batch of decadent truffles. Plastic boxes, candy cups, and festive fabric are all you need to package these luscious treats. It's really all about the decadent milk chocolate-covered truffles inside, anyway.

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Potato Cinnamon Rolls

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Great for a post-holiday breakfast, this wholesome cinnamon roll recipe features moist potato dough, a brown-sugar filling, and a luxurious cream cheese icing. Bake the twist in a disposable foil pan, then add the lid and color to your gift with a wide, festive ribbon.

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Lemon-Lavender Cookies

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Delight a foodie friend with these delicate lavender cookies. We made cookie sandwiches for easy packing, but you also can spoon the sweet sugar frosting on top. To wrap the cookies, stack them in a paper-lined roll of corrugated cardboard. Place a round of cork at each end and tightly tie the tube with ribbon.

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Apple-Berry Pie in a Jar

Apple-Berry Pie in a Jar
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We're starry-eyed about these sweet mini pies that taste as good as they look! Bake the pie in a 1-cup, wide-mouth canning jar ($14, Ace Hardware), then place the cooled pie in a pint-size wooden berry basket. Wrap the basket with red yarn and add a personalized label to complete the all-American food gift.

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Spicy Lime Pistachio Nuts

Spicy-Lime Pistachio Nuts
Credit: Adam Albright
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Pistachios lend seasonal green color to this nut mix, but you could easily sub in almonds or cashews. To package, layer two muffin liners to make a sturdy container and add your favorite nut mix. Punch circles from cardstock. Fold down the flaps of the liners to cover the mix, then use a dab of hot glue to seal with a cardstock circle. You could also use round stickers to secure the paper.

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Pistachio-Cranberry Baklava

Cherry, Apricot and Pistachio Baklava
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Take their taste buds on an International tour with this flaky pastry treat. Baklava makes the perfect food gift because it offers a unique twist on the concept of Christmas cookies. Package the baklava triangles in a holiday tin topped with a magnetic clip and a note from you.

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Black-and-White Twists

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Double-dipped chocolate and vanilla pretzels are a salty-and-sweet food gift that anyone will love. For the packaging, glue scrapbook paper around a potato chip can. Adhere a homemade label to the can using glue, then wrap the can with twine.

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Oatmeal Spice Cookies

Cinnamon and Fruit Cookies
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Gift this classic childhood favorite with a grown-up twist for the holidays. A bold dose of cinnamon and dried fruit adds some sophisticated flavor to oatmeal cookies. To package, line a small burlap gift bag with brown parchment paper. Tie the filled bag with ribbon and add a tag.

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Little Peppermint Cakes

Petite Peppermint Petits Fours
Credit: Scott Little
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Need a last-minute gift? Don't fret. These French-style peppermint cakes have a trick up their sleeve: A frozen pound cake base allows you to put them together in just 30 minutes. Dress them up with paper candy cups and a gift box.

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Hazelnut Rocky Road Brownie Mix

Hazelnut Rocky Road Brownie Mix
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Our homemade brownie mix in a jar recipe features rich cocoa powder, gooey marshmallows, and a layer of crunchy hazelnuts. Pour the ingredients into the jar one by one, and then decorate it for the season. (We used velvet stickers to jazz up the sides.) For the flower topper, layer a paper tag, a vintage foil flower, and a large button; adhere them together with a few dabs of hot glue.

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Hazelnut Truffles

Sweet Cherry Truffles
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A light dusting of powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and nuts completes these decadent truffles. The chocolate-lover in your life will swoon over them! Package these treats using small paper candy cups and a gift box tied with a festive ribbon.

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Breakfast Basket

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Heading to a friend's home for dinner? You'll nearly guarantee a return invite if you leave breakfast behind as a thank you. Fill a food gift basket with homemade pancake mix, granola, coffee, and jam. Finish it off with fresh fruit and a bouquet of flowers.

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Vanilla Bean Liqueur

Vanilla Bean Liqueur
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For a make-ahead Christmas food gift your friends will love, combine vodka, sugar, and vanilla beans, then store for a month in a cool, dark place. Copy your favorite drink recipe onto a cute card and attach it to this luscious liqueur for a personal touch.

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Butterscotch Brownies and Deep Chocolate Brownies

Butterscotch Brownies
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This two-in-one brownie food gift looks lovely in a pretty confection box ($7, Joann). Alternate brownie squares for a fun checkerboard effect. With a look as appealing as its taste, this food gift idea is a sure winner.

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Homemade Marshmallows

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Light-as-air homemade marshmallows are a treat to give. Recipients can add them to hot cocoa on a chilly night or to ooey-gooey s'mores. Wrap the marshmallows in a cellophane bag topped with a small chalkboard gift tag (available at crafts or hobby stores).

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Egg-and-Bacon Breakfast Casserole

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Here's one food gift that's a meal and a kitchen gift in one! A savory bacon-and-egg casserole goes mobile in a baking dish the recipients will love to add to their stash. Wrap the dish with a festive holiday towel and ribbon, and tie on wooden utensils.

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Chocolate Slab

Chocolate Slab Food Gift
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Customize tempered chocolate with your favorite candies (we love the salty-and-sweet combo of pretzels and peppermint). To package, cut a circle just smaller than the jar lid from about 25 layers of holiday-color tissue paper. Use a double-threaded needle to make one stitch in the center of the stack; knot. Snip around the circle at regular intervals. Pull the tissue-paper petal shapes up and toward the center and use a glue dot to adhere the flower to the jar lid.

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Pomegranate-Herb Syrup

Pomegranate Syrup Food Gift
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Drizzle this tangy syrup over pound cake or ice cream, or add a dash to cocktails. To package, wrap washi tape around the top or bottom of an apothecary bottle for a quick embellishment. Tie a gift tag to the neck of the bottle with twine.

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Chocolate-Cherry Banana Bread

Chocolate-Cherry Banana Bread
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Standard banana bread gets dressed up for the holidays with cocoa and amaretto-soaked cherries. To package, bake the bread in parchment paper. When cool, set it inside a wooden basket and slip it into a clear bread bag.  Wrap the bread with red velvet ribbon and secure with hot glue. Use a thin-tip permanent marker to write on a wooden tag, and tie the tag to the package with hemp twine.

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Gingerbread Cutouts

Peppered-Orange Gingerbread Cutouts
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Spice up these classic cookies with cinnamon, ginger, clove, and nutmeg. To package, cut scrapbook paper to fit the interior of a petal envelope and adhere using double-stick tape. Use glue dots to attach buttons to the flap, a half inch from the opposite fold. Wrap twine in a figure eight around the buttons to close.

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Hazelnut-Mocha Sauce

Hazelnut-Mocha Sauce
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Cook chocolate pieces and chocolate-hazelnut spread with evaporated milk and sugar for 8 minutes, stirring frequently, and this rich dessert sauce is done! Pour it in a glass jar and refrigerate until serving or until you're ready to give it as a food gift to your friend with the biggest sweet tooth.

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Cranberry-and-Pepper Shortbread Bites

Cranberry and Pepper Shortbread Bites
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Peppercorns give these buttery sweet treats an unexpected bite. To package, cut scrapbook paper to fit the box lid and secure with double-stick tape. Layer two ribbons of different widths in a band around the closed box and hot-glue them in place. Dip the stems of punched leaf shapes in hot glue and press onto the ends of hemp twine; knot around the box on top of the ribbon.

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Cracker Pizzas

Everything Cracker Crisps
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This snack is for the pizza-lovers out there. We've borrowed the cheesy, saucy flavors of a delicious slice and transformed them into a crisp cracker. Share this DIY food gift in a reusable glass jar to make your recipient's mouth water.

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Chicken Noodle Soup with Vegetables

Chicken Noodle-Vegetable Soup
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Mom's classic recipe makes a great gift and looks tasty in a quart jar wrapped with a flour-sack towel and seasonal ribbon. Tuck it in a basket with a warm loaf of bread for a cozy, comforting food gift.

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Cranberry-Orange Relish

Chunky Cranberry Relish
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Cranberry and orange zest add pizzazz to this delicious relish, which can be made up to a week in advance. Decorative jars, topped with a cute wooden spoon and personalized note, make ideal packaging. Gift it around Thanksgiving—or any time of year!

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Marinated Feta Cheese and Olives

Marinated Feta and Olives
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We're going Greek with this DIY food gift idea! It's a ready-to-devour appetizer of feta cubes, kalamata olives, green olives, roasted peppers, and onion wedges marinated in an herb vinaigrette. A piece of scrap fabric dresses up screw-top jars, which are personalized with a homemade label.

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Sweet Maple Mustard

Sweet Maple Mustard
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Want to give a gourmet food gift but short on time? This easy maple mustard is a snap to make, thanks to a microwave cooking technique. Suggest the recipient tries it with soft pretzels or on sandwiches.

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    7 of 44 Individual Brownie Trifles
    8 of 44 Pancake Kit
    9 of 44 Christmas Macaroon Mix
    10 of 44 Pecan Pie Bars
    11 of 44 Hot Chocolate Mix
    12 of 44 Cookie Decorating Kit
    13 of 44 Candy Crunch White Bark
    14 of 44 Spiced Apple Tea Mix
    15 of 44 Pizza Night Kit
    16 of 44 Triple-Pepper Hot Sauce
    17 of 44 Savory Herb Salt Rub
    18 of 44 Triple-Chocolate Truffles
    19 of 44 Potato Cinnamon Rolls
    20 of 44 Lemon-Lavender Cookies
    21 of 44 Apple-Berry Pie in a Jar
    22 of 44 Spicy Lime Pistachio Nuts
    23 of 44 Pistachio-Cranberry Baklava
    24 of 44 Black-and-White Twists
    25 of 44 Oatmeal Spice Cookies
    26 of 44 Little Peppermint Cakes
    27 of 44 Hazelnut Rocky Road Brownie Mix
    28 of 44 Hazelnut Truffles
    29 of 44 Breakfast Basket
    30 of 44 Vanilla Bean Liqueur
    31 of 44 Butterscotch Brownies and Deep Chocolate Brownies
    32 of 44 Homemade Marshmallows
    33 of 44 Egg-and-Bacon Breakfast Casserole
    34 of 44 Chocolate Slab
    35 of 44 Pomegranate-Herb Syrup
    36 of 44 Chocolate-Cherry Banana Bread
    37 of 44 Gingerbread Cutouts
    38 of 44 Hazelnut-Mocha Sauce
    39 of 44 Cranberry-and-Pepper Shortbread Bites
    40 of 44 Cracker Pizzas
    41 of 44 Chicken Noodle Soup with Vegetables
    42 of 44 Cranberry-Orange Relish
    43 of 44 Marinated Feta Cheese and Olives
    44 of 44 Sweet Maple Mustard

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    44 DIY Food Gifts for Cooks That Are Way Sweeter Than Store-Bought
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