Handmade Holiday Gifts
Give your favorite food lovers what they really want for the holidays: homemade fudge and brittle, freshly baked holiday breads, jarred jams and more handmade and edible gifts from the heart.
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Spiced Ginger Rum Balls
Chrissy Teigen's colored-sugar-flecked chocolate balls are as spicy as she is sassy, and with 1/4 cup of dark rum, are delightfully boozy –– perfect for holiday parties.
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Triple-Decker Peanut Butter and Pretzel Fudge
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Candied Pecans
All you need to make candied nuts is sugar, water, salt and a pinch of cayenne pepper. Make a big batch to pass around at your next party.
Get the Recipe: Chuck's Candied Pecans
Chicago Mix Popcorn
This caramel corn and cheddar cheese popcorn mix will appeal to those who like their sweet and salty flavors combined. Be sure to start with fresh, stovetop-popped popcorn for the best flavor.
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Limoncello
Bestow bottles of this lemon-tinged libation on the liqueur connoisseurs in your life and get ready to win gift giver of the year! Just make sure to start your batch a month and a half before you need it. After all, you can’t rush love… or limoncello.
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Chocolate Truffles
Gift Alton's rich truffles this season and be prepared to ward off plenty of requests for the recipe. He spikes chocolate ganache with brandy and rolls the truffles in cocoa powder, chopped nuts or toasted coconut.
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Salted Caramel Sauce
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Brownie Peppermint Bark
Go beyond a basic peppermint bark by adding a thin layer of brownie crust to boost the richness of this traditional holiday candy.
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Apricot-Chocolate Trail Mix
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Candy Cane-Kissed Peppermint Patties
These peppermint cream and chocolate cookie sandwiches would already be festive, bearing the season's favorite flavor pairing, but a half-moon hat of chocolate-mint cream and crushed peppermint makes them downright iconic.
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Gingerbread Cookie Mix Gift Jar
Bestow this simple-to-make cookie mix on friends and family so that they can bake, bake as fast as they can… to catch themselves a gingerbread man. Add a bit of extra charm by packaging the mix in glass jars and attaching a cookie cutter with string.
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Cranberry Almond Chocolate Bars
These chocolate bars can be pulled together quickly after raiding your pantry for sweet, salty and nutty ingredients. All you need are slivered almonds, chocolate morsels, dried cranberries and a pinch of tangerine or orange zest.
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Porchetta Rub Kit
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Red Velvet Whoopie Pies
Brighten up a cold Christmas day by gifting these fluffy crimson sandwich cookies to friends and family. The combination of subtle cocoa cookies and a sweet cream cheese filling is always a crowd-pleaser, especially in palm-sized portions.
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Figgy Holiday Quick Bread
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Balsamic Chocolate Truffles
Giada intensifies the flavor of her dark chocolate truffles with a couple teaspoons of balsamic vinegar. This adds a tart edge to the pleasantly bitter chocolate and cream.
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Chile-Cinnamon Brittle with Mixed Nuts
Rachael roasts almonds, hazelnuts and peanuts to really develop their individual flavors before preparing this brittle. A bit of chile powder and cinnamon add heat and spice, and she limits the amount of sugar used, to render a truly savory brittle.
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Holiday Mulling Spices
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Red Velvet Twinks
This Christmas-ready recipe re-makes the famous snack cake with a southern twist. Goat cheese adds a nice tang to the traditional cream cheese filling, while a dip in shredded coconut makes for a pretty presentation.
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Chocolate-Espresso Morning Buzz Granola
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Peanut Butter Fudge
Alton's easy fudge recipe circumvents the stove-top entirely; the peanut butter gets warmed in a microwave. After that, a quick mix with butter, vanilla and powdered sugar leads to perfectly smooth fudge that you'll want to keep all to yourself.
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Cashew Nut Brittle
Kelsey infuses her brittle with a briny edge by spreading the hot, caramelized mixture over a chilled block of Himalayan sea salt to harden.
Preserved Lemons
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Gingerbread Cake Truffles
Gingerbread is anything but boring when rolled up with lemon cream cheese frosting and drenched in white-chocolate candy coating.
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Homemade Pomegranate-Lime Lollipops
Smooth and full of zing, these lollipops make for a special holiday treat. Feel free to swap out the lime juice and try ginger-spiked orange juice or grapefruit juice instead.
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Thai Bird Vodka
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Sea Salt Caramels
Crafting a fine caramel is a true art, and New York City confectioner Liddabit Sweets, who specialize in caramels in all sorts of flavors, know a thing or two about the secret sweet science.
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Free Range Fruitcake
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Pine Nut Brittle
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Juniper Mop Sauce
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Chocolate Truffles
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Pineapple Confit with Aleppo Pepper, Smoked Sea Salt or Cloves
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Seaside Toffee
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Sweet and Sesame Kettle Corn
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Chocolate Fudge
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Cranberry Honey Butter
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Spiked Date and Fudge Balls
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Spiced Almonds
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Graham Cracker Toffee
This four-ingredient recipe turns graham crackers into chewy, nutty, caramelized bars. Simply top them with a butter, sugar and nut sauce and bake for 10 minutes.
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Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread with Pecans
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Walnut and Dried Cherry Bars
Topped with a glossy layer of apricot preserves, these chewy, energizing bars are wonderful for breakfast, a snack or a healthy dessert. The sweet nutty flavor is offset by tart dried cherries.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles
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Alton's Chocolate Fudge
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Chocolate Caramel Popcorn Bark with Bacon, Pecans and Chile
Sweet, spicy, crunchy — this ultimate popcorn has it all! It combines just about everything delicious: dark chocolate, vanilla bean, smoked bacon, chipotle powder, pecans and more.
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Gingerbread Squares with Cream Cheese Frosting
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Vanilla Almonds
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Schiacciata Alla Fiorentina
This unbelievably easy Florentine orange cake from Debi and Gabriele is traditionally made in Italy around Easter, but bright citrus sweets are welcome in the dead of winter –– when oranges are, in fact, best.
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Chocolate Truffles
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Midnight White Chocolate Cherry Bark
Dried cranberries or other fruits add color and sweet contrast to this double-chocolate and peppermint bark, which gains its beautiful striated color from a surprising hardware-shop tool.
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Christmas Chutney
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Hot Fudge Sauce
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Caramelized Pear, Black Pepper, Honey and Goat Cheese Pound Cake
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Cacao Nib Caramel Corn
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Peanut Butter, Bourbon and Maple Fudge (Halvah)
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Croccante: Almond Brittle
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Pomegranate Soda Kit
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Vanilla Meringues
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Browned Butter Peanut Butter Crispy Rice Treats
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Fraya Berg's Famous Biscotti
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Petits Fours
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Popcorn and Peanut Bark
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Apple-Habanero Jelly
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