Homemade Christmas Gift Baskets

The list including potential Christmas gift baskets to make yourself is limitless. Indeed, there's a wide range of different themes to choose from when making Christmas gift baskets.

Here are a few examples of potential Christmas gift baskets to make at home:

• Whiskey themed Christmas gift basket for old alcohol collectors,
• First class brand cigars for tobacco amateurs
• Music gift basket for classic music amateurs
• DVD or blu ray gift basket for a fan of cinema
• Book gift basket for readers
• The list of potential Christmas gift baskets doesn't stop there!

You are just limited by your imagination.

As an example, my father is a beer amateur and turned 65 this year. So, I think I'll prepare a nice Christmas gift basket filled with different sorts of beers. The support will be a wooden shelf on which I'll place as many bottles of beer as possible - I thought of 65 (one per year) but think I'll keep the idea for his next birthday. I live in Belgium; which produces more than 680 sorts of beers; which means that I'm going to have hard times selecting the few bottles of beer I'm going to include into the Christmas gift basket.

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The most popular Christmas gift baskets ever are the chocolate themed gift baskets. So, for chocolate amateurs on your Christmas gift list, Christmas gift baskets filled with chocolate specialties and chocolate related products that you can find on the market, you're sure to make your recipient happy.

Making chocolate themed Christmas gift baskets at home is quite easy. Here's an example: using a metallic box, fill it with cream-colored tissue paper, a sheet of silk paper or crepe paper and then add the following chocolate related products:

• A bottle of chocolate liquor,
• Leonidas chocolates,
• Chocolate bars - Cote d'Or Special Edition,
• A natural cocoa box,
• Boxes of fruit, flower or citrus flavoured sugar.

Naturally there are many more items you could add to chocolate themed Christmas gift baskets... As a matter of fact, when it comes to chocolate gifts, seashell chocolates; which are a specialty by Guylian, chocolate waffles a specialty from Liege, Belgian truffles; which are tasteful sweet treat or Cote d'Or mignonettes in a gift box; which are a one-stop treat to serve with coffee; work wonders too!

Here you are, in less time than you thought at first sight, you have your Christmas gift basket ready!

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• White, red and rose wine bottles
• A professional corkscrew
• A wine tasting set
• A set of wine jellies
• Wine candies
• A wine club membership certificate.

Red, white and rose Wine jellies are also a must have for any wine amateur. You don't have to buy expensive products to make outstanding or classy wine themed Christmas gift baskets. Many regions in the world produce high quality wines: countries like Spain, Italy and Australia or regions like South Africa, California produce exceptional wines that can be purchased for a very decent price and those wines can be added to any good wine themed Christmas gift baskets.

Spa themed Christmas gift baskets are another type of gifts that are sure to please their recipients. Here are the instructions for you to make spa and/or perfume themed Christmas gift baskets at home:

• Using acrylic glue, cover a shoebox with a special Christmas gift wrap
• Decorate the inside of the shoebox with colorful silk paper
• Surround the box with a large red or green ribbon
• Place a towel of the same color

Then add the following products in the Christmas gift basket you just created:

• women Perfume or Eau de Toilette,
• A body moisturizer,
• A women shower gel,
• Body therapeutic sponge set,
• Body exfoliating accessories,
• A bottle of floral water,
• A horsehair glove.

Christmas gift baskets of food are also very popular and provide you with a wide range of different options. Let's take the example of homemade Spanish food Christmas gift baskets.

Here's how to proceed to create a stunning Spanish gourmet Christmas gift basket: using a metallic basket, place red and yellow silk or crepe paper and add the following products:

• A bottle of Ponche,
• A bottle of "Sangre de Toro" wine,
• A pata negra ham or Serrano ham; which are the most delicious Spanish hams ever,
• A chorizo, a tasteful spicy sausage,
• A Queso Manchego or other Spanish cheese such as Mahon Reserva, Idiazabal and Murcia al Vino,
• A bottle of Spanish olive oil,
• Almond Turron,
• An assortment of Christmas Spanish cookies (Surtido de Navidad) which are Spanish lemon, almond, etc. flavored biscuits.

These are the kind of products I add to the Spanish food themed Christmas gift baskets I make.

Naturally, you're free to create any kind of food themed Christmas gift basket using Chinese, French, German, Swedish, etc. delicacies.

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Gourmet Christmas gift baskets are generally sure to please everyone. But if there's a gourmet on your Christmas gift list, then a gourmet Christmas gift basket is the most appropriate present to get this person.

For you to make gourmet Christmas gift baskets at home, you're going to varnish a wooden wine box (I suggest using a "rustic oak" tinted varnish). Once the box has dried, fill it with decorative straw or beige silk or crepe paper and add the following products:

• Three bottles of wine (red, rose and white),
• Fresh French foie gras which is a must for any gourmet,
• 2 legs duck confit, another must have specialty for a gourmet;
• Caviar (make sure this fits with your budget as with caviar, you might end up spending lots of money);
• Truffles; or, because truffles are as expensive as gold, truffle perfumed oil and seasoning; which are more affordable products,
• A pot of onion confit; which your recipient will spread on their foie gras.

Because gourmet Christmas gift baskets can be quite expensive, depending on how large is your Christmas gift budget, you'll want to remove some products. Of course, if your budget is large, you might want to add more products to the gourmet Christmas gift basket.

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