11 Cheap and Charming Homemade Gifts: From Limoncello to Bath Salts Photo 8. One-quart, wide-mouth canning jar 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1 cup packed brown sugar 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp. ground ginger 1 tsp. ground cloves 1 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 tsp. ground allspice Large tag for instructions Ribbon Gingerbread cookies are a great holiday gift, but give busy friends with no time to bake this cookie-in-a-jar mix so they can make their own and impress their pals.
Gift-Giving: Spiced Tea Mix. I’m a big fan of homemade gifts. Mainly because I enjoy food and drink so much, I guess I just expect everyone else to as well (that’s not always the case, but nevertheless, if you’re friends of ours, you can bet your gift will be edible). My mom makes this spiced tea every year at Christmas and it’s just scrumptious.
Really. There’s nothing more comforting than sipping a big cup of this while watching a Christmas movie, and I imagine it would be perfect after an afternoon of playing out in the snow….just a guess, seeing as how we don’t get much snow ’round these here parts! Easy homemade sugar scrub recipe. Bath Fizzies.