Every year I like to encourage the children to make a Christmas homemade food gift for their teachers and school friends. The tiny mention of baking, biscuits,cakes,chocolate and they normally drop what ever they are doing and happily join in. Sometimes it is good to give money towards gifts for teachers, and yes normally I am the first to do this (been a busy working Mum!), but this one special time of year, when for me food becomes a central part of every day life, I truly love to do this with the children for lots of reasons.
Last year we made Chocolate biscuit tiffin, the year before that we made homemade chocolate fudge, each year we wrap them in cellophane with tie them with red and purple curly ribbon bows.
This year we decided to do Christmas cookies.
My little girl and I made the mixture in our Ken wood mixer, rolled out the dough and cookie cut them out.
Pumpkins biscuits with pink icing.
All wrapped and ready to go.
Back in late summer of this year, we went foraging you
can see it here and harvested some delicious Victoria plums in a field close to where we live. The recipe we followed explained that we had to store the chutney for 3 months in a dark, cool place, so for 3 months we have had 10 jars of plum chutney under the bed!
Last week we pulled them out, cleaned them, labelled them and decorated them with fabric, ribbons and Christmas twine.
Another homemade Christmas food gift made and many well deserved people to give to.
Do you have any festive homemade food gifts that you have made? I would love to know!
Have a great weekend.
Bxx
