Tentative Kitchen Gifts list for 2024

 

 And today, here is my list for kitchen gifts.  Again, it is likely to be added to.  

Some special people get gifts of cookies: Eggnog Logs and  Sacher Torte Cookies, and Chocolate Mint Crisps.  I put the cookies for nearby recipients on pretty Christmas or winter plates that I either pick up on after-Christmas clearance the year before, or at the thrift store throughout the year.  I found some beautiful ones for this year's cookies, and they are washed and stashed away ready for use.

Cookie recipients who don't live nearby get their cookies in festive tins I've purchased in similar fashion or saved from a previous year.

One person loves the Golden Apricot Cakes so much that I will make them just for her.   These are fun to make in tiny loaf pans.

The little cakes cooling (with Eggnog Logs in the background)

Apricot cakes wrapped and ready to gift

 
 And seeing those little loaves reminds me of some other recipes I'd love to make for gifting:

This chocolate chai tea loaf, for one. 

Triple chocolate quick bread, for another.

And I remember a fruitcake recipe from Cook & Tell that included chocolate chips.  Hmmm .., I may be sensing a theme here!

Christmas Granola is just my Homemade Granola with dried cranberries and shelled pistachios added.

The BBQ pecans are just a want-to-try that I hope to make for some men on my gift list.  And that's why my lists are always tentative to start with...