Any ideas for homemade foody items for Christmas presents??

[Flummery]

Homemade jars of mincemeat - they keep for around 6 months

Most of my family are getting homemade foodies pressies this year so thanks for asking this question, I've got lots more ideas now!

I've just used up the last of the mincemeat from 2 years ago! The secret is adding plenty of brandy.

[percy charlie]

i often make sweets to put in jars as prezzies here are some and the receipes.
pepermint creams or other flavoured creams egg white icing sugar added till stiff so can roll into balls in hand few drops pepermint essence or other flavouring and drop of green or other appropriate food colouring once balls rolled dip half into chocolate. jar when cool needs making xmas eve and fridging as only keep about 2 days.
marzipan fruits add food coloring and roll into shape jar will keep for months usually eaten before that.
rum or other booze truffels (especially baileys) or just chocolate if for kids chocolate butter cream but add extra icing sugar to stiffen up few drops of booze essance or real booze roll then quick dip in cold water then roll in chocolate sprinkels or crumbled flake keeps about a week in a fridge.
fruit or nut chocolate clusters or fruit and nut clusters, mix dried fruit or nuts or a combination in melted chocolate, spoon clumps onto a baking sheet cool in fridge then place in a jar, keeps about a month if not eaten.
busicut bites, break buscuits up into little peices can use different varieties together or seperatly mix into melted chocolate spoon onto baking sheet and cool put into jar.
luxury buscuit bites, break the biscuits up mix into chocolate butter cream (can also add couple of table spoons of nutella chocolate spread to butter cream) roll into balls then cover with chocolate.
i also cover dried fruit like pineapple bananas and apricots in chocolate to put in jars.
hope this gives you ideas for tasty gifts.
cooking and baking are my favourite passions of house work. all the best pc

[Hilary B]

You can make a no-cook coconut ice starting with sweetened condensed milk. Add lots of desicated coconut and icing sugar until it is VERY difficult to stir. Line tin with greaseproof (baking parchment is even better). Put half of coconut mix in the tin, colour the other half pink and put on top. Leave somewhere off-cold overnight. Mark into 'pieces'. Leave a couple more days, turn out onto wire rack and leave in off-cold plae another couple of days to 'dry out'. Cut or break into pieces, put in jar or wrap.
If you get the caramel condensed milk, and add lots MORE icing sugar but no coconut, you can make a nice fudge by the same method.

[MaureenHall]

I'm making batches of marshmallows - got lots of eggs to use up!! Google James Martin marshmallow, dead easy and absolutely delish

[Jay Bee]

A few ideas in the DM

Cook your Christmas presents! | Mail Online

[todayiwillbemostlygrowing]

Hi Heres loads of ideas for xmas gifts at the Money Saving Expert website:

Special Occasions and Celebrations - MoneySavingExpert.com Forums

and cookery gifts on BBC Good Food website here:

Christmas gifts recipes - Recipes - BBC Good Food

[Mcbee]

If I'm stuck for ideas i visit the library. there are so many different books on stuff that you should be able to find some ideas. Its great because you don't have to buy the whole book - you can just take the bits you want!

[JennieAtkinson]

And tomorow night I am going to make a large batch of tablet -

Ooooooh Tablet ! My failing!

My husband has just got into making millionaires shortbread (don't ask!), and he had some of the fudge bit left over the other day (I would have just poured the whole lot on) ....... anyway he put it in the fridge and then covered bits of it with chocolate ........ it was LOVERLY!

[pigletwillie]

Come on then Rat, your tablet recipe please!!!!!!

[Hilary B]

Something simple, effective, and potentially using home produce. If you have dried home grown fruit, just coat it with chocolate. I haven't got any home-dried, but I bought a bag of dried black cherries. A 'cluster' of 4, coated in white chocolate, looks fancy. I made dark chocolate cherry clusters too. They are going to the local Christmas Fair on Saturday, along with the no-cook coconut ice and the caramel chocolate truffles. I hope the 'lazy fudge' will be fit to take along as well, it still needs to dry out a bit more.

[janeyo]

Last year I bought some plain - poshish biscuits and dipped them in dark choc and gave them as pressies. Also the family really loved the rum truffles I made on xmas day. Easy recipes like that can be googled as can't find my 'sweet' book at the mo.

janeyo

[coreopsis]

Come on then Rat, your tablet recipe please!!!!!!

I completely agree.
May I have some rum truffles as well?

[coreopsis]

Oooops,I forgot to add:

Pretty PLEASE(with cherries on the top)