Every year I make them an assortment of treats which always includes peppermint bark, peppermint brownies, and cayenne shortbread (aka cheese wafers). This year I added the white chocolate cherry shortbread.
I change the packaging each year and have the container as part of the gift. One year I did a decorated photo box with each person's initial and favorite colors, and another year was a Christmas tin. Last year I used black photo boxes and attached wire ribbon (black, white and red Christmas pattern) to look like the box was a wrapped package.
This year I started with a Christmas tin tray. The shortbreads were both packaged in cellophane and tied with a red wire ribbon. The peppermint bark candies and peppermint brownies were each in the small boxes below. I wrapped the entire thing in cellophane and tied it with a red ribbon.
For dinner I made a delicious new soup - Chicken Vegetable Soup with tortellini, fennel, kidney beans, Swiss chard and several other ingredients. I served the soup with warm rolls. Dessert was a brownie topped with peppermint ice cream, homemade whipped cream and crushed peppermints.
We had a great Christmas book club!
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| Packaged Christmas Goodies |
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| Tray with Cayenne Shortbread and White Chocolate Cherry Shortbread |
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| Box of Peppermint Bark Candies added |
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| Second box with Peppermint Brownies added |
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| Final product |
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