Make Your Own Gourmet Gift Baskets

Everyone loves to receive a gift basket. Corporate gift baskets
are often given by businesses to their customers as a token of
their appreciation. However, most gift baskets are person to
person expressions of love and friendship.

You can find a great selection of online gift baskets from the
very expensive to the cheap. Or, you can come up with your own
unique gift basket idea and surprise a cherished friend or loved
one.

It’s not difficult to make your own personalized gift baskets.
Most gift baskets involve a theme.

Here are some sample ideas to get you started:

** Cookie Gift Basket – bake up some homemade cookies and
enclose them in colorful plastic wrap, include a personal card
or poem.

** Chocolate Lovers Gift Basket – include individual fancy
chocolates, boxed chocolates, or the person’s favorite chocolate
bars along with hot chocolate mix.

** Holiday Gift Basket #1 – a Christmas holiday gift basket idea
could include small stocking stuffers, candy canes and homemade
Christmas cookies.

** Holiday Gift Basket #2 – a Halloween holiday gift basket can
be stuffed with candy, throw in some plastic skulls, spiders,
cob webs and assorted creepy items.

** Wine Country Gift Basket – wine and cheese baskets are
favorites, include two bottles of choice wine from your favorite
winery or wine shop, add cheese and crackers.

** Coffee Gift Basket – Your favorite coffee lover will enjoy
fresh gourmet ground roasted coffee (or their favorite brand),
flavored creamer, cookies and a fun coffee mug.

** Italian Gift Basket – include a variety of dried gourmet
pasta like spinach, whole wheat, or dried tomato, two jars of
pasta sauce, fresh mozzarella and parmesan cheese, garlic bread
and fancy olive oil.

** Tea Lovers Gift Basket – you can include several varieties of
black tea, green tea and herbal teas, a mug and homemade butter
cookies adds a nice finishing touch.

** Champagne or Beer Gift Basket - the champagne basket would be
elegant: includes a bottle of fine champagne, cheese and
crackers, and fancy chocolates; the beer basket includes several
domestic and/or imported beers, lagers, or ales, chips, pretzels
and nuts.

** Pet Gift Basket – dog and cat gift baskets are the most
popular. For a dog you can include: homemade doggie biscuits or
cookies, a doggie collar, doggie toys. For a cat you can
include: cat treats, cat nip and cat toys.

Now you know that all it takes to make a unique gift basket that
will be treasured is a little ingenuity and your personal touch.