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Make your own gourmet gift baskets

Everyone loves receiving a gift basket. Companies often give away corporate gift baskets to their customers as a token of their appreciation. However, most gift baskets are personal expressions of love and friendship.

You can find a huge selection of gift baskets online, from the most expensive to the cheapest. Or, you can come up with your own unique gift basket idea and surprise a dear friend or loved one.

It’s not hard 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 some homemade cookies and wrap them in colorful plastic wrap, include a personal card or poem.
  • Chocolate Lovers Gift Basket – Includes individual fancy chocolates, boxed chocolates, or the person’s favorite chocolate bars along with a hot chocolate mix.
  • Holiday Gift Basket #1 – A 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 filled with candy, add some plastic skulls, spiders, cobwebs, and a variety of spooky items.
  • Wine Country Gift Basket – Wine and cheese baskets are a favorite, include two bottles of choice of wine from your favorite winery or wine store, add cheese and crackers.
  • Coffee Gift Basket – Your favorite coffee lover will enjoy freshly roasted gourmet ground coffee (or your favorite brand), flavored creamer, cookies, and a fun cup of joe.
  • Italian Gift Basket: Includes a variety of dried gourmet pasta such as spinach, whole wheat, or dried tomato, two jars of pasta sauce, fresh mozzarella and Parmesan cheese, garlic bread, and elegant olive oil.
  • Gift Basket for Tea Lovers: You can include several varieties of black tea, green tea, and herbal tea, a mug, and homemade shortbread cookies add a nice finishing touch.
  • Champagne or Beer Gift Basket: The champagne basket would be elegant: it includes a bottle of fine champagne, cheese and crackers, and elegant chocolates; the beer basket includes various 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 it may include: homemade dog biscuits or biscuits, a dog collar, dog toys. For a cat you can include: cat treats, cat chews and cat toys.

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

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