Alternative Gift Ideas-Baking

One thing that I have noticed over the past couple of years is that homemade cooking is becoming a lost art. I have found that people love homemade baked goods or items they can quickly put together themselves to call homemade. The one thing people seem to love are my home canned food items especially the jams and jellies. This brings me to my next list of ideas for alternative gifts.Here are some ideas:

-your speciality homemade Christmas cookies. (I use reusable Christmas tins for this. You can find tons of them at Goodwill. I also will sometimes put in baggies and wrap in small gift bags.)
-Homemade quick breads 
-Fresh homemade loaf of bread
-homemade candies
-home canned jams, jellies, salsa, others (put a piece of Christmas material under the removable ring. Tie a ribbon around the ring.)
-jar of cookie mix with directions on how to prepare (can find tons of recipes for this on the internet)

Try some of these today. If you are giving them to a child's teacher, babysitter or other caretaker, have your child help in the preparation. As we go along I will try and include some recipes in my blog with some of the more popular items that can be made from scratch. Have fun baking.