Home-baked teacher’s Christmas gifts

8th December 2017sue Share:FacebookTwitterShare

 

Beautifully wrapped homebaked biscuits and brownies


Home-baked gifts look sensational when presented with a little flair

Say thank you to your children’s teachers with a thoughtful gesture this Christmas. Home-baked gifts are fun to make and easy on the pocket. They also mean a lot more than something grabbed from the supermarket.

When it comes to making home-baked gifts look great, presentation is everything. But don’t worry. With a few simple tricks you can elevate a simple, homemade gift to something spectacularly special. Here’s our three-step guide to a gorgeous teacher present...

Step 1: Choose your home-baked Christmas treats

 

dark chocolate lebkuchen by Dash of Ginger blogger


Glossy, chocolatey lebkuchen makes a special home-made gift
Image: A Dash of Ginger

A pretty package, full of delicious, homemade Christmas treats, makes the perfect teacher gift. Christmas baking is a great weekend activity to do with the kids and they’ll feel extra-proud when they hand over a special present to their favourite teacher.

We’ve scoured the internet for some tried and tested recipes to get you started. For something really simple, Holly at Recipes from a Normal Mum describes how to transform chocolate and mini marshmallows into heavenly hot chocolate sticks.

Staying with the chocolatey theme, how about some cheeky chocolate gingerbread men from Baking a Mess? Or perfectly rich, dense and fudgy brownies courtesy of Ashley of The Recipe Rebel?

Celebrity blogger Tanya Burr’s recipe for superb shortbread uses just four simple ingredients to create crumbly, buttery heaven. And if you’ve never been successful before, this super-easy fudge recipe from Christie’s Lifestyle uses a slow cooker to save you hours of stirring and temperature-testing.

But for a real taste of Christmas, A Dash Of Ginger’s dark chocolate lebkuchen biscuits make the perfect gift. Kirsty reckons you can have them made from start to finish in under an hour and they'll taste a hundred times better than anything you can buy in a shop.

Step 2: Get creative and decorate

 

decorated christmas biscuits


Children will love decorating shaped biscuits
Image: Unsplash

You’ve picked and baked your favourite recipes. Now it’s time to make those treats look as gorgeous as possible.

If you used Christmas cookie cutters to create stars, Christmas trees, baubles or gingerbread men, let the kids loose on the coloured icing and sparkly sprinkles. We can’t think of many better ways to spend a wet winter afternoon.

Step 3: Perfect your presentation skills

You’ve shaped, baked and decorated your delicious goodies – now here’s where the magic happens. Elevate your lovingly handmade gift to a spectacular showstopper with a few simple tricks. Watch our short video (above) to see how to gift wrap your home-baked treats with ease.

  1. Wrap a thick piece of card in Christmas wrapping paper to make an elegant base. (We used a clean polystyrene base from underneath a pizza.)
  2. Place it on a large piece of cellophane and pile your baked treats on top.
  3. Gather the cellophane and tie with Christmas ribbon, as we’ve done here. And voilà – a beautiful gift that will make any teacher’s day.

Other presentation ideas from dotcomgiftshop…

 

Glass cookie jar from dotcomgiftshop


Put your homemade treats in a traditional large glass jar from dotcomgiftshop - £12.95
Image: Shutterstock

 

dotcomgiftshop christmas baking tin


Buy a Christmas tin to fill with your best baking like the Jolie Noel tin from dotcomgiftshop - £7.95
Image: Unsplash

 

dotcomgiftshop wrapping paper is perfect for wrapping brownies and flapjack


Wrap squares of fudge in beautiful Gold spot sea mist wrapping paper from dotcomgiftshop - £8.95
Image: Unsplash

 

Decorative washi tape from dotcomgiftshop


Elevate plain cellophane bags with dotcomgiftshop’s Scandi chic paper washi tapes - £3.95

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