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Homemade Food Gifts

Looking for a thoughtful, homemade gift? DIY food gifts are the perfect way to show you care. Whether for holidays, birthdays, or just because, edible gifts always impress. From festive M&Ms Cookie Mix Jars to savory BBQ spice rub to easy Homemade Kahlua, there’s something here for everyone.

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A beautifully packaged gift basket with microwave popcorn, boxes of candy, popcorn seasonings, and cardboard popcorn boxes.

Popcorn Seasoning Recipes (Popcorn Gift Basket Idea!)

A jar of hot cocoa mix sits next to a fresh mug of frothy hot chocolate with marshmallows on top

Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix Recipe

Top view of a black bowl piled high with sweet and salty popcorn.

Kettle Corn Recipe for Gifting or Snacking

Chewy Lemon Crinkle Cookies on a white board dusted with powdered sugar

Tender Lemon Crinkle Cookies

Soup Mixes in a Jar

6 Homemade Soup Mixes in a Jar

A fork rests across the top of an open canning jar, a pickled beet slice speared on the end of it.

How To Make Canned Pickled Beets

Three half-pint jars of berry jam stand on a wooden cutting board with fresh berries around them.

Simple Blueberry Jam Recipe

Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam

Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam

Overhead of caramel popcorn on a white counter.

How to Make Perfect Caramel Popcorn at Home

Close view of ranch dressing mix in a bowl with a metal whisk.

Homemade Ranch Dressing Mix (Ranch Seasoning)

Closeup view of a cut out sugar cookie shaped like a christmas tree topped with green icing and sprinkles.

The Best Sugar Cookie Icing Recipe for Decorating

Chewy Gingerbread Cookies

Soft Gingerbread Cookies

Lofthouse Sugar Cookies decorated in white, green, and red frosting, topped with sprinkles

Copycat Lofthouse Sugar Cookies

Close view of pieces of homemade peanut brittle stacked tall on a parchment paper lined cooling rack.

Homemade Peanut Brittle Recipe

An open jar of preserves stands with a wooden spoon dipped into it.

Gingered Pear Preserves Recipe

Three jars of onion jam stand on a wooden board, the jar in front is open and has a wooden spoon in it.

Red Onion and Port Jam

A small wooden spoon rests in an open pint jar of bourbon peach jam.

The Tastiest Bourbon Peach Jam Recipe

A spoon sticks out of an open jar of pineapple salsa. A halved papaya and a whole pineapple are in the background

Pineapple Papaya Chili Salsa

Fresh green jalapeno peppers and a wooden spoon rest beside a jar of pepper jelly.

Jalapeño Pepper Jelly Recipe

A bloody mary cocktail kits with a gift tag and red ribbon stands in front of 5 other cocktail gift kits.

6 DIY Cocktail Kits for Easy Gifting

Gingerbread cookie mix in a jar packaged for gifting with colorful fabric, string, and a recipe card.

Gingerbread Cookie Mix Jars for Gifting

A gift tag tied with red and white string hangs from a jar of ruby red pomegranate jelly.

How to Make Homemade Pomegranate Jelly

A spoon scoops apple pie filling from a Ball canning jar.

Step-by-Step Guide to Canning Apple Pie Filling

A glass of wine stands in front of two bottles and fresh peach slices.

How to Make Peach Wine – A Beginner’s Guide

A stemmed wine glass filled with chilled blueberry wine stands surrounded by fresh blueberries and two bottles of homemade wine.

A Beginner’s Guide to Making Blueberry Wine: All You Need

A collage of photos of DIY food gifts, ranging from hot sauce, to limoncello, to soup mixes, and more. A text overlay reads "45 Easy DIY Food Gifts."

Gift Guide: 45+ Thoughtful and Easy DIY Christmas Food Gifts

Overhead of chicago mix popcorn bagged up for gifting.

Homemade Chicago Popcorn

Two bottles of homemade kahlua on a kitchen counter surrounded by coffee beans.

Homemade Coffee Liqueur Recipe (AKA: Kahlúa)

A glass of homemade strawberry wine sits next to a bowl of fresh strawberries.

How to Make Fruit Wines + Strawberry Wine Recipe

Close-up of homemade margarita mix in a glass bottle with a handwritten label and fresh cut limes and oranges.

How to Make Margarita Mix

A full and labeled bottle of Homemade Limoncello lies on a white kitchen towel among lemons and other filled bottles.

How to Make Limoncello

Three jars filled with mixed berry agave jam stacked in a pyramid with fresh berries in front.

How to Can Mixed Berry Jam (Naturally Sweetened with Agave)

Two hands pull an almond flour chocolate chip cookie apart. Gooey chocolate stretches between the two cookie halves.

The Best Almond Flour Paleo Chocolate Chip Cookies

A bottle of homemade vanilla extract is labeled and wrapped in baker's twine.

How to Make Vanilla Extract

Two bottles of labeled hot sauce sit on a counter. One of the bottles is open.

Hot Sauce Recipe

A glass mug filled with a chai latte sits in front of a jar of loose leaf chai mix.

Homemade Chai Tea Recipe and Easy DIY Tea Gift Set

An open jar of edible cookie dough with a white spoon in it sits in front of a packaged jar of the dough.

How to Make Healthy Edible Cookie Dough for Gifting

Baked veggie pizza sliced and sitting on parchment paper.

Healthy Almond Flour Pizza Crust Mix and Dough Recipe (Paleo, Gluten-Free)

Stack of Pumpkin Spice Dark Chocolate Nut Butter Cups arranged on a white plate. One of the cups is cut in half to show the filling.

Pumpkin Spice Dark Chocolate Nut Butter Cups