Are you still looking for a delicious gift for your loved ones? Today I have delicious recipes for quick Christmas gifts from the kitchen for you and your kids.
You'll often find my minis and me in the kitchen at Christmas time with cocoa-dusted faces and loud Christmas music. There we not only bake delicious cookies, but also take care of delicious Christmas presents for our loved ones. It is mixed, heated, stirred, crumbled, sprinkled and decorated until at the end there is a beautifully packaged treat on the table. These Christmas presents from the kitchen not only come from the heart, but also fill my minis with a lot of pride and the recipients with a lot of joy! I love it!
While my kids are still quite small, I prefer recipes that are quick and sure to work. These Christmas recipes for Christmas gifts from the kitchen are also ideal for last minute gifts! (Do you already know our last minute gift ideas from last year?)
Then let's get started! After all, Christmas is just around the corner! 😉
Pink DIY gift tag set for Christmas
With our Christmas gift tags you can give your homemade Christmas presents that “special something”
Tags, labels & banderoles to decorate your gifts.
Sparkling Christmas jam
At Christmas it is allowed to glitter and sparkle! Like this Sparkling Cherry Jam:
Ingredients
for 6 jars of 250 ml each
- 2 jars of sour cherries
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon speculoos seasoning*
- 3-5 drops of bitter almond aroma
- 500 g Gelierzucker (2:1)
- Edible glitter*
Preparation
- Pour the sour cherries into a sieve and collect the liquid in a mixing bowl.
- Weigh the sour cherries and make up to 1000 g with the collected liquid.
- Then put the sour cherries and the measured liquid in a saucepan and process them into a velvety puree using the hand blender.
- Refine with cinnamon, speculoos spice, bitter almond oil and glitter.
- Add preserving sugar and process according to package instructions.
- Boil down the Christmas cherry mixture according to the instructions on the package, stirring constantly and then pour into boiled jam jars.
- Close the jam jars and turn them upside down for 5 minutes, then turn them over again
Your “sparkling” Christmas presents from the kitchen are ready!
Crunchy Christmas Muesli
With these crunchy Christmas presents from the kitchen you can put even the most grumpy morning person in the festive Christmas spirit
Ingredients
for 12-15 servings (3 glasses of 500 ml each)
- 200 g spelled flakes
- 200 g tender oat flakes
- 150 g chopped nuts (cashews, almonds, pecans)
- 50 g almond flakes
- 50 g dried wild blackberries
- 3 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons Just Spices cookie seasoning*
- 2 tablespoon sunflower oil
- 10 tablespoon agave syrup
Preparation
- Heat the oven to 200 ° C top/bottom heat
- Mix all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl
- Add sunflower oil and agave syrup and mix so that the dry ingredients are coated by the liquid ones
- Spread the Christmas muesli on a baking tray lined with baking paper and roast in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon.
- Then let them cool on the baking tray and then put them into preserving jars when they are completely cool and close them
Speculoos muesli
If you want it to taste a little more like Christmas, then this speculoos muesli is just the thing for you:
12-15 servings (3 glasses of 500 ml each)
Ingredients
- 300 g spelled flakes
- 200 g tender oat flakes
- 50 g almond flakes
- 50 g almond sticks
- 100g dried cranberries
- 6 coarsely crumbled spiced speculoos
- 50 g peanut brittle
- 3 tablespoon speculoos spice*
- 2 tablespoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon sunflower oil
- 100g honey
Preparation
- Heat the oven to 200 ° C top/bottom heat
- Mix all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl
- Add sunflower oil and honey and stir so that the dry ingredients are coated by the liquid ones
- Spread the speculoos muesli on a baking tray lined with baking paper and roast in the oven for 15-20 minutes. Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon.
- Then let them cool on the baking tray and then put them into preserving jars when they are completely cool and close them
Hot drinking chocolate
A walk in the cold winter weather and then a velvety, hot drinking chocolate! What can be better?
Ingredients
for 10 drinking chocolates
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 3 tablespoon cocoa
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 8 edible spoons (you can also use small wooden teaspoons or ice cream sticks)
- Mini-Marshmallows*
- Marshmallow Christmas trees*
- Chocolate balls in gold and pink*
- 10 paper snap cups* (I don't even remember where I bought mine, but I linked similar ones for you.)
Preparation
- Melt the dark chocolate in a water bath
- Add cocoa and cinnamon
- Divide the melted drinking chocolate mixture between the snap cups and press the spoons into the liquid chocolate. To ensure that the spoons are held straight in the drinking chocolate, I secured them with clothespins.
- Decorate the drinking chocolate as desired with mini marshmallows, chocolate balls and sugar pearls
Little tip: The paper cups make wonderful gift packaging. You can paint or stamp them wonderfully.
Speculoos truffles
These small, delicious Christmas presents from the kitchen are child's play and if the minis don't roll them perfectly round, that's not a bad thing at all. The Christmas truffles don’t mind at all 🙂
Ingredients
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 6 spiced speculoos
- 75 ml whipped cream
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon speculaas seasoning*
- Baking cocoa
- gold glitter*
Preparation
- Finely crumble the spiced speculoos in a kitchen mixer (e.g. Thermomix, etc.) (you can also put it in a freezer bag and chop it up with a rolling pin)
- Bring the whipped cream to the boil briefly in the saucepan.
- Add the chocolate and let it melt in the warm whipped cream.
- Add the speculoos crumbs, cinnamon and speculoos spice and mix well.
- Allow the mixture to cool and place in the refrigerator.
- After cooling, use a teaspoon to roll small portions into small balls and roll them in baking cocoa and roll into small, even balls with your hands.
Little tip: It looks particularly beautiful when the baking cocoa is mixed with gold glitter and the truffles then shimmer gold!
Vanilla truffles
Ingredients
- 200g white chocolate
- 1 vanilla bean
- 75 ml whipped cream
- powdered sugar
Preparation
- Bring the whipped cream to the boil briefly in the saucepan. Add the chocolate and let it melt in the warm whipped cream.
- Add the vanilla pod pulp and mix well.
- Then let the mixture cool down and put it in the fridge.
- After cooling, use a teaspoon to roll small portions into small balls, then roll them in powdered sugar and roll into small, even balls with your hands.
Cinnamon chocolate almonds
When I think of Christmas presents from the kitchen, almonds cannot be missing. The classic is probably the roasted almonds, but chocolate almonds are also definitely worth a sin!
Ingredients
- 300 g whole almonds
- 100 g dark chocolate
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 70 g baking cocoa
- 20g powdered sugar
Preparation
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath
- Add cinnamon
- Spread the liquid chocolate over the almonds and mix well (so that all the almonds are coated with chocolate)
- Place the baking cocoa and powdered sugar in a sieve and sift over the chocolate almonds (the chocolate must still be liquid)
- Now shake the bowl with the almonds a little so that the sifted cocoa is evenly distributed over the almonds.
- Finally, spread the almonds on baking paper to dry. They should be in one layer if possible.
The delicious cinnamon-chocolate almonds are now ready to give as gifts
Vanilla chocolate almonds
Ingredients
- 300 g whole almonds
- 100 g white chocolate
- Pulp of a vanilla bean
- 80g powdered sugar
Preparation
- Melt the chocolate in a water bath
- Add the vanilla bean pulp
- Spread the liquid chocolate over the almonds and mix well (so that all the almonds are coated with chocolate)
- Place powdered sugar in a sieve and sift over chocolate almonds (the chocolate must still be liquid)
- Now shake the bowl with the almonds a little so that the sifted powdered sugar is evenly distributed over the almonds.
- Finally, spread the almonds on baking paper to dry.
Roasted almonds
Ingredients
- 200g almonds
- 100 g sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 3-4 tablespoon water
Preparation
- Put water, cinnamon and sugar in a pan and bring to the boil.
- When the sugar water starts to bubble, add the almonds and from now on only stir with a wooden spoon.
- First the water evaporates and the almonds get a white sugar coating. You have to keep stirring now. After about 5-7 minutes, the sugar begins to caramelize and becomes liquid again and this time the almond gets the familiar brown “caramel coat”. It is important that you stir thoroughly as the almonds can burn quickly.
- Finally, let them cool on baking paper - if possible individually so that they don't stick to each other.
Crunchy Christmas Crunch
Since I tried it for the first time, it has definitely been one of our favorite Christmas gifts from the kitchen - although... we always like to give it as a gift - not just at Christmas time! It's quick and tastes FANTASTIC!
Ingredients
- 3 cups (230 ml capacity) oat pillows filled with chocolate*
- 2 cups mini pretzels
- 1/2 cup salted peanuts
- 1/2 cup salted cashews
- 200g white chocolate
- Mini-Marshmallows*
- Chocolate pearls*
- Christmas sprinkles*
- Chocolate snow crystals*
Preparation
- Place oat pillows, mini pretzels, peanuts & cashews in a mixing bowl
- Melt the white chocolate in a water bath and pour it over the dry ingredients and stir carefully until the dry ingredients are completely coated with chocolate.
- Spread the crunch on a baking tray lined with baking paper and decorate as desired.
Christmas gift tags & gift labels
Do you still need beautiful gift packaging for your Christmas presents from the kitchen?
With our Christmas gift tags and labels you can beautifully decorate the bags and jars of your Christmas presents from the kitchen. For glasses, bags, spice boxes, bottles, etc. with our “Christmas gift tags” your gifts from the kitchen become a wonderful eye-catcher under the Christmas tree.
You can find the Christmas gift tag set here. (We are currently working on a pretty “Christmas gift tag set” in a classic Christmas color! Would you like to be the first to know when it is available in our shop? Then feel free to sign up for our newsletter!
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My kids & I wish you and your minis a lot of fun designing your Christmas presents from the kitchen and, above all, giving them away!
Yours, Lia
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