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Cookie gift baskets make wonderful gifts for all occasion. Who doesn’t love cookies? They’re a great way to celebrate holidays such as Christmas and Valentine’s Day as well as birthdays, anniversaries, baby showers, and other special occasion.

You can slso use cookie gift baskets as a way to say thank you, congratulations, good luck, get well soon, and convey other expressions when words alone may not be enough.

One good thing about cookie gift baskets is that they don’t have to contain exclusively cookies. You are free to add in other goodies like candies, chocolate bars, or brownies and fudge and create mixed cookie gift baskets.

Need more ideas to fill your cookie gift baskets? How about oatmeal raisin cookies, sugar cookies, and jam filled cookies? Oh, and don’t forget everyone’s favorite: chocolate chip cookies!

If Christmas is the occasion, you may also want to include lemon bars and cinnamon cookies along with some gingerbread men and candy canes. You can decorate your cookie gift baskets with gold tissue paper, red or green cellophane and gold or silver confetti, and throw in a couple of pine cones to reflect the season.

If you’re a cookie lover like me, you probably have no shortage of recipes at hand, and including the recipes for your cookies in the gift baskets as an extra treat for your recipients would be a great idea.

One thing to remember about cookie recipes and gift baskets is that you should tailor them to your recipients’ tastes and needs without compromising the quality of the cookies. For instance, substituting shortening for butter or margarine may result in disappointment.

If you have a friend who is crazy for chocolate chip cookies, you may want to make a cookie gift basket based on chocolate chips that contain a mixed variation such as raisins, peanuts, macadamia nuts, and cinnamon.

A health conscious business associate of yours will appreciate a cookie gift basket filled with healthy fruit based cookies. Including your recipes for each selection will assure them that your delicious cookies won’t compromise their food ethics.

There are also sugar-free cookies and other foods you can put together to create special cookie gift baskets for diabetics. Spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves make for a really tasty cookie and usually are less caloric. The sweetness comes from the spices, and tends to be healthier.

On the other hand, if the consumer has no dietary restrictions, you can present them a gourmet cookie gift basket filled with decadent and calorie-rich goodies like butter cookies and fudge.

As you can see, you can make excellent cookie gift baskets to suit the pickiest eater with just a little creativity. In case you need more ideas for cookie gift baskets and recipes, check out some cooking magazines or recipe books. You can slso find some free, great tasting cookie recipes online. Just do a search!

Posted by Susie 

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