20 Food gifts for Christmas that you would love to get yourself

For many people, food gifts are the best gifts ever. Giving these gifts will be easier for you too as you can arrange for various types of food gifts according to your budget. Some can be your DIY Christmas gifts too.

Receiving delicious goodies can be very joyful for the recipients. Keep on reading to get some tasty ideas which will help you to give great best food gifts for Christmas. Even if they are not all food items, they will somehow be related to food.

20 Christmas food gifts

We have assembled the twenty best Christmas food gifts that will blow everyone’s heart with deliciousness. These items are something that you consider buying for yourself. Again no one can make you happy and fulfilled other than yourself. So try buying these gifts for yourself and your loved ones and fill this Christmas with heavenly bliss of deliciousness!

Cinnamon buns or rolls are Swedish pastries that are soft and very delicious. Baked till golden brown, they taste best when served a bit warm. Cinnamon rolls are a great way to start the morning along with a mug of coffee. They are also great as a snack which can be eaten anytime one feels the hunger pang. If you know someone who can travel for these delish pastries, give this cinnamon-buns baking kit to them. They will be able to start their Christmas morning on a perfectly sweet note. 

Key Features:

• Makes 12-14 buns
• C 8 x 8 x 2.75 inches
• Contains all the ingredients
• DIY Activity kit

If you are into baking yourself and are planning on baking some cookies, Christmas cakes, and cupcakes as gifts, you will be needing these empty boxes. These boxes will be helpful in packaging and getting them delivered. You can pack candies in the boxes too. These boxes are all Christmas-themed and have Christmas elements like Santa, Snowman, and Gingerbread house on them. The paper boxes have a clear window in the center so that the baked goodies are visible making your gift box doubly appealing. The boxes will come flat but they can be assembled very quickly. There will be gift tags for each box on which you will be able to write Christmas wishes. Go ahead and hand out fabulous Christmas baking gifts.

Key Features:

• Premium quality craft paper
• With gift tags
• Clear windows

Though it is called an oven, it is a versatile cooking utensil. Once someone uses it, they will keep using dutch ovens. Whether it is baking bread or roasting meat, almost anything can be prepared using this. Originally a dutch oven is made with cast iron, though you might find fancier-looking stainless steel ones. The cast iron oven is heavy and has a heavy lid and a deep pot. Heat distribution happens very evenly in it and the heat retention power is high too. Whatever needs slow cooking can be done easily. It is very useful for making soups and preparing vegetable dishes. A dutch oven is very long-lasting and is known to last for years in a family, almost like a family heirloom. You can also buy one for making homemade food gifts for others.

Key Features:

• Oven-safe
• Best for stovetops
• Pre-seasoned

This is a good decadent gift hamper. It contains savory sausages and tasty cheeses along with crackers and some amazing sweets. It can be sent to any friend or family member who loves meat and cheese. All the items in the basket are carefully handpicked in the USA. This branded meat and cheese gift basket will surely be loved by your foodie friends. This delicious treat will make a perfect gift for Christmas

Key Features:

• Theme: Meat and Cheese
• All items are handpicked
• Imported from the USA
• 14 piece set

Gourmet baskets are always something that amuses every food lover. This gift too is something that takes everyone’s mind and heart to the rich deliciousness of the Gourmet gift basket. It includes chocolate chip cookies, milk toffees, mixed nuts, puff pastry, hazelnut wafers, fruit cookies, and gourmet caramel corn. It contains only premium ingredients. The box is reusable and comes fully assembled. The gift box is topped with a hand-tied bow or ribbon. You can give this to your mother too on her birthday. 

Key features:

• Premium quality ingredients
• Comes fully assembled
• Reusable gift box

Do you know someone who always wants to meet up at an Asian or oriental restaurant so that they can have their favorite sushi? With this deluxe edition DIY sushi set, they will be able to make professional-level sushi at home. You can visit their house without having to visit an upscale restaurant for having some homemade restaurant-style sushi! 

The kit is a professional one too which can be used in restaurants as it has 11 plastic tools for making sushi. If you give this kit to someone who has a family, the kids can join their parents and make sushi for their Christmas party. Though the kit is made with plastic, it is completely safe as the plastic is thick food-grade plastic. These plastic tools are very easy to clean, which is a plus.

Key Features:

• Suitable for beginners and chefs both
• Has accompanying tutorial
• 4 differently-shaped molds

Let’s move on to Italian cuisine which is hugely popular too. This is for the pasta lovers on your list, specifically for those who love ravioli. These are steel ravioli cutters with dough cutting wheels. The handles are made of wood so that they are easy to hold and don’t slip. 3 tools of the set molds with which you can make ravioli stamps and also square and round ravioli. So this set can be used for making ravioli at home too. The pasta stamp features a wooden handle with sturdy aluminum frames and is very easy to handle. The recipient of this gift would be so proud to make ravioli stuffed with meat or cheese or vegetables themself.

Key Features:

• Stainless steel
• Cuts sharply
• Double blade roulette

A kit for gin lovers. Yes, food gifts include drinks too. So the tipple-lovers won’t be forgotten. This kit has ‘everything you need to make the perfect gin’. A gin-lover will have a lot of fun stirring up their cocktail. They would love to use this kit and show off their bartending skill when they have friends over. They will be excitedly waiting for dinner parties like Christmas parties when they can open the box for the first time. With this kit, one can make both fruity and floral flavored gin. The gin infusion technique will be enjoyed by seasoned home cocktail drinkers and also by a beginner brewer.

Key Features:

• Exquisite cocktails at home
• Eliminates the need for expensive flavored gin
• 12 Spices in glass jars
• Contains a funnel and sieve

A kit for someone who uses an instant pot and can’t stop raving about how convenient it is to have one. Make them go ga-ga even more with this accessories kit. They will be able to have steamed vegetables and other dishes that need steaming. Healthy food which is tasty too can be now prepared using their pot. 

It is a complete kit having cheat sheet magnets, oven mitts, steamer basket, divider, kitchen tons, egg bites mold, spring form pan, steam diverter, steam divider, egg rack, and bowl clip! The accessories are made with either premium quality stainless steel or BPA-free food-grade silicone. All of them are ergonomically designed, dishwasher safe, and long-lasting. The 3 magnetic cheat sheets will help one to make vegetables, grain, or meat dishes more easily and quickly.

Key Features:

• Stainless steel steamer and basket
• Multipurpose non-stick baking tin
• Rotatable steam release diverter

Kombucha is a soft drink that is very healthy. It is a naturally fermenting sweet tea. If someone you know enjoys drinking kombucha tea, help them brew kombucha continuously at home with their scoby. They can stop buying kombucha from grocery stores that don’t come cheap. With this kit, they will be able to make probiotic-rich kombucha themself. Apart from a dehydrated organic scoby, the kit also contains activating sugar, a kombucha screen, a temperature strip, and a PH strip. Kombucha has essential vitamins and minerals and caffeine too, all of which our body needs. The recipient will be able to enjoy all the healthy benefits of kombucha at home without paying anything.

Key Features:

• All-in-one kit
• Step-by-step fermentation
• 100% organic dehydrated scoby

A dairy lover can craft their cheese, too in 30 minutes. Step-by-step instructions have been provided so that they can make 2 different types of cheese –ricotta and mozzarella. Other than the quick 30-minute quick mozzarella, one can also make the traditional mozzarella. This is a completely beginner-friendly kit and one only needs to add 4 liters of milk per batch. The milk can be of any kind – low-fat, organic, whole-fat, or conventional. They wouldn’t have to buy kitchen equipment like cheesecloth and thermometer as those as well as a pipette will be included in the kit. If anyone has been wanting to make cheese at home, they will be delighted to receive this kit.

Key Features:

• 100% veg and gluten-free
• 2 types of cheese 
• Beginner-friendly kit

This is a half-and-half tin consisting of caramel and cheddar popcorn. These two are a favorite of everybody, of every age. The recipient will be thrilled to open this tin at their Christmas event. They will be too happy to receive something as a gift that will help them to serve their guests’ deliciousness. If they decide to keep the sealed tin till another occasion like a birthday or anniversary, they very well can. The popcorn can be eaten anytime within 6 months. This shareable party tin will be a great addition to a pantry or kitchen. It looks celebratory and bright and will be helpful whenever the recipient wants to have a flavourful snack. The tin is sufficient for serving 15 people as it holds approx. 28 cups of popcorn.

Key Features:

• 2 pounds of popcorn
• Non-GMO kernels
• Bold table-topper tin

If you are a baker, what’s Christmas without a cake? When you cannot be with people in person to celebrate Christmas, add to their joy by sending them this special Caribbean Banana Rum cake. That was our thought while we searched for a giftable cake option when we found this great gift. At a time when you cannot spend time with friends and family, make up for your absence by sending them this sweet gift like this one. The cake is made using 5 years aged old Tortuga gold rum and high-quality ingredients.

Key Features:

• Vacuum sealed
• Made using five-year-aged rum
• Made of high-quality ingredients

You will enable someone to have a great start to their Christmas morning when you give them this buttermilk pancake mix. Pancakes are a yummy breakfast and this kit contains 2 of 2lb buttermilk mixes and 1 original syrup that can make around 40 large-size pancakes. It will be enough for a full family plus some guests. They can put some of their favorite fresh fruit and have a wholesome breakfast or coffee-time snack. The two boxes of buttermilk pancake mix and one bottle of original syrup will help someone make a few pancakes in no time. These pancakes will have calcium and iron but are low fat and have no artificial flavors or colors.

Key Features:

• Low calorie
• Makes 18 pancakes/box
• 10 years of shelf life

These 6 hot sauce bottles to go are thoughtful gifts for anybody who likes to get a kick from their spicy food. Each bottle holds a good 3oz. of sauce. These hot sauces can be given to any vegetarian or vegan too. The sauces have varying degrees of heat, they can make a dish subtly spicy or very spicy, depending on the chosen sauce. The labels on the bottles are so eye-catching and it includes– HOT Habanero Pepper Sauce, Green Habanero Pepper Sauce, Mild Habanero Pepper Sauce, Belizean Heat Hot Sauce.

Key Features:

• 6 sauces from mildly spicy to extremely spicy
• 30-ounce weight
• Eye-catching packaging

A true beer-lover knows how drinking beer in the correct glass can add to the whole experience. So give this craft beer tasting kit to anyone who has newly taken a liking to beer or has turned old enough to be tasting beer.  No, there are no bottles of beer involved but it is a 3-piece tasting kit. This means that there are 3 glasses of different shapes meant for drinking different beers. One can drink American wheat beer, IPA, Wheat beer, Barrel-aged beer, Pilsner, or Stout in glasses they should be drunk from. 

All the glasses are fully transparent as they are made from crystal. Seeing the color and froth makes beer drinking more enjoyable. The glasses are dishwasher safe and they will not lose their shine even after multiple washes. The refined thin-walled glasses will be a good addition to a home bar.

Key Features:

• Maintains flavor profiles of beer
• Glasses for IPA, Wheat beer, and stout
• Laser-cut rims

Cookies are always everyone’s favorite and are a must on your Christmas Table. This tin contains 24 pieces of butter cookies. You can also get to taste the deliciousness of tender coconut or vanilla twist. The cookies are styled in Pretzel Style, Vanilla Ring, Finnish Style, Country Style, and Coconut. Non-GMO Ingredients are used to make these delicious cookies and it contains no added preservatives or colors or ingredients.

Key Features:

• Flavors: Butter, coconut, and vanilla twist
• 24 pieces
• Non-GMO ingredients
• No preservatives
• Comes in a beautiful tin
• Reasonable price

This has to be one of the most mainstream Christmas gift boxes as Santa and sweet treats are the most significant things for kids. This hamper filled with treats can be given to any adult but no one will appreciate this more than a child. There are many sweets in this box which are all classic American treats. Once one gets this gift box delivered to them, they can enjoy the sweet treats over the next 3 months. A medium-sized box filled with heavenly sweets will be loved by your family and friends. It is one of the most perfect gifts that you can send out for Christmas. If someone has not tasted well-known American sweets, this will be a grand way to introduce them to the same.

Key Features:

• Retro-styled gift box
• A large number of sweet treats
• Classic USA treats

This has been listed for all your DIY food gift ideas. This basket will be especially useful if you were thinking of Christmas food baskets. An oval Christmas basket with handles is the best for keeping fruits and giving them away. Though it has a touch of red and white to make it Christmassy, the basket is a multi-purpose one. Natural split bamboo has been used for making this basket which has a certain elite look about it. The basket filled with fresh fruits will be a good Christmas decoration for any dining table. The handles make the basket easy to pick up, carry or hang on the wall.

Key Features:

• Eco-friendly gift basket
• Multipurpose
• Easy to carry

This is a food gift basket for Christmas that can be given to any family member. But we would suggest you give it to your mom or dad as these are healthy food items. The gourmet gift basket is filled with dry-roasted sweet and salty nuts which they snack on whenever they want. The nuts can be a good accompaniment for drinking wine. The Nut Haven gift basket has a deluxe mix of carefully selected nuts. 7 different types of gourmet nuts. The boutique-style gift box is sure to make the recipients completely amazed.

Key Features:

• 7 types of nuts
• Sweet and savory flavors
• Hand-picked nuts

We have rounded up our list of unique gift baskets which are great for food lovers. There is something for everybody’s taste buds. Pick any or all to surprise your friends, relatives, co-workers, etc. Merry Christmas!