Let’s Make Christmas! Ten fabulously easy, simple and inexpensive ideas for indulgent Christmas food treats to package up and give to friends and family. Homemade is so much better than shop bought!
It’s starting to look a lot like Christmas round here! Oooh I love this time of year! In the run up to Christmas every year I get really excited about what food gifts to make for my friends and family. I especially love making things that are festively cute, and can be easily packaged up into pretty bags and tied with a Christmas ribbon!
Since you don’t have much time this time of year (or any of the year, who are we kidding!), I thought I’d save you time by bringing you a round-up of my favourite Christmas food gifts. I have a few criteria – they must be easy to make, but impressive, and the ingredients can’t cost a fortune. The best value gift is probably the Chocolate Snowballs, and you could easily add a bit of rum or kahluha to make them even more delicious…
Click on the headings to go to the recipes!
Cookie Dough Peanut Butter Cup Pretzel Bark
Chocolate bark is one of the easiest, yet most impressive food gifts out there! It’s simply melted chocolate (you can do white, milk, or dark, or a combination / layers) which you spread out on a sheet of parchment paper on a baking tray. Dot your recipients favourite things on top – whether it be cut up bounty bars and maltesers, booze soaked raisins, or peanut butter cups (I went for cookie dough and pretzels in the bark above!). Or for an extra festive version, use red and green M&Ms and Christmas sprinkles. Cool, cut into large pieces and package in a gorgeous bag. They will think you went to loads of effort, but we’ll know the truth!
White Chocolate Rocky Road
Just as easy to make as bark, I LOVE the festive colours of this strawberry white chocolate version. Gorgeous and delicious! I’ll be making something similar for New Year’s eve to share with you all – I can’t wait!
Christmas Tree Brownie Pops
I just love these brownie pops by my creative friend Liana at My Sugar Coated Life. This would be such a lot of fun to do with kids! You could wrap two or three up and secure a bag around the base of the straw – voila, a gift bouquet of brownie pops!
Chocolate Coconut Snowballs
I made these last Christmas as a food gift for my friends (if you know me in real life you will always, always get an edible gift from me!) and I just loved them. They are so ridiculously easy to make, would be great to do with kids (there’s really no way to mess them up) and they’re cheap to make too! Plus they look like snowballs. Oh, and they taste like a delicious bounty truffle!
Lemon Pistachio Wreaths
Oh my gosh. These cookies are just so adorable. They’ve been on my to bake list for a couple of Christmas’s and I really need to get around to them soon! They’d be easy to make if you have some different sized circular fluted cookie cutters like these, and the delicious lemon and pistachio would be really fresh and yummy.
Reese’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
This easy foolproof fudge recipe is just my favourite. You can use the base to make any kind of flavour you like – Bounty fudge, S’mores fudge, white chocolate gingerbread fudge, baileys fudge, the possibilities are endless! Oh, and it takes about ten minutes to make!
Christmas Tree Cookies
Oh oh I love these cookies. They’re so easy and tasty and you could use the same idea to make christmas star, snowflake or stockings in the middle of the cookie. Adorable!
Chocolate Covered Oreo’s and Marshmallows
Really the easiest of the easy, these are simply jumbo marshmallows dipped in white chocolate and sprinkles! The oreo’s are a little more involved – lollypop sticks are popped into oreo’s and they’re then dipped in chocolate and topped with Christmas sprinkles. SO cute.
Triple Chocolate Brownie Cookies
Give these as a Christmas gift and your friends will love you forever. They are the MOST chocolatey thing I think I’ve ever consumed. Definitely a must for any known chocoholics in your life!
Gingerbread Cupcakes
These are a little more effort, but they taste SO good! Aromatic gingerbread cupcakes are paired with fresh, creamy cream cheese frosting, and each one is topped with a mini gingerbread man! You could buy the gingerbread men from the supermarket if you prefer to make things simpler.
Packaging your treats!
This year I’m using these snowflake print bags from Lakeland, and their selection of Christmas ribbons to tie them. They have plain ones too which I usually use (like when I made my friends wedding favours back in October!).
I’m also using these metallic sharpies to write out my tags and cards. Does anyone else still get super excited about pens, but specifically, metallic shades? Just me?!
Giveaway time!
I love working with Lakeland, and I was really excited when they offered me three of these Fairy Tale Village Moulds for my readers! Aren’t they just so cute?
You can use them to make amazing gingerbread houses, either with biscuit, or with chocolate. They are absolutely adorable! Just look at the amazing chocolate Christmas house my friend Liana of My Sugar Coated Life made last year (and she’s making more and doing a tutorial this year, hurrah!).
I’ll just wait here while you gasp in awe! Could it be any more beautiful? Probably not right. Although I bet a few people will be making Frozen versions this year…
Lakeland have been kind enough to give me three to give away, worth £11.99 each! To enter the giveaway, simply leave a comment on this post and tell me which of these festive treats you’d love to receive this year! Be sure to include an email address you check often so I can contact you if you win!
Giveaway runs until Tuesday 2nd December at midnight, after which time I’ll pick three commenters at random – you have to have your mould well in time for Christmas! Thanks to Lakeland for their generosity!
Please note – the giveaway is only open to people in the United Kingdom.
Need more Christmas baking inspiration? There’s about a lifetimes worth here!
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Happy festive baking, friends!
x Kerry
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Ohmygosh, those gingerbread cupcakes are adorable! Definitely going to give those ones a go!
That white chocolate bark looks deeelicious!
And your gingerbread men have just given me a great idea for a dinner party cake I need to make 🙂 x
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Oh I love this post! I am always looking for inspiration for gifts to make at Christmas and I love this roundup! Well done. Gutted that I missed out on the giveaway…I would have loved that because I plan to make my first gluten and dairyfree ginger bread house with the kids this year!!
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What a pretty list, it all looks amazing #festivefood
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Love xmas trees cookies, they look amazing. I bet they taste good too. J x
Don’t suppose you want another friend ‘in real life’? Because if I was given Chocolate Coconut Snowballs as a present I’d be a very happy person!
Always! Especially if youre a midlander!
How do you narrow that list down?! Ha! I think I can get as far as three: the chocolate bark, Reese’s fudge (yomp!) and the delicious sounding cookies jumping in at the end there. I really couldn’t break it down to one…
It’s got to be one of Liana’s chocolate houses?! What an awesome gift that would make! Oh and your cookie dough bark looks totally dreamy. Thanks so much for sharing on #festivefoodfriday. Love your posts as always x
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The chocolate coconut snowballs sound yummy, so I’d like to receive these.
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Wow, these look absolutely amazing! Mouth-watering photos! I will be following on Pinterest. #FestiveFoodFridays
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Planning on making some Christmas cake pops and mince pies xx
I’d like to receive the Lemon and Pistachio Wreaths. They are not something I would usually make myself so would be nice if someone else went to that trouble for me 🙂
I love giving foodie gifts at Christmas. Coz after all. ..Christmas is all about the food right?! Em x
I’d love to receive the gingerbread cupcakes – I come from Market Drayton which is ‘the home of gingerbread’ so I think they’d go down a treat with friends & family!
I love all of these food gift ideas! That Christmas house is amazing!!!
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I would love to receive all of these, especially the Reese’s fudge, yum! (ok, maybe not the gingerbread cupcakes – I *want* to like ginger, I just can’t bring myself to it) I think I’ll just make them all & give them out instead. I’ll feel thinner over the holidays if I make everyone else chunkier 😉
I’m all about home made Christmas gifts too! That’s what I really look forward to at Christmas every year. Great selection Kerry! 😀
Oh my goodness, can I really only choose 1 item to receive?!! Well I’d truely have to say I’d love to get the Reece’s chocolate peanut butter fudge, 3 of my favorite things all smooshed up together, heaven, however I’d make everything else for my ever greatful significant other as I know he always shares with me!! 🙂
Oh gosh these look so good! I am planning my baking for December so definitely need to give some of these a go, those christmas tree cookies are the best!xx
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I adore those lemon and pistachio wreaths, so pretty and a lovely fresh flavour combination. I think I’ll definitely have to give them a try! (Though they’d probably be fairly quickly demolished by university flatmates!)
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Planning on making bark this Christmas (because it’s easy!) but I love those brownie trees and the cut out cookies. I’d have any of them though, I have the sweetest tooth!
Thanks for your comment Lynsey! Me too, they all look so yummy don’t they!
I would love to receive some gingerbread cupcakes this year they are soooo cute, I might just have to make some myself to make sure I get some 🙂
Thanks Kim! They are really delicious and I loved sticking some into to the frosting head first to make it look like they were drowning in cake – what a way to go!