12 Homemade Christmas Gifts Ideas You Can Give in a Jar
With Christmas fast approaching everyone is looking for inspiration for homemade gift ideas. We love making homemade recipes in our Thermomix to fill up glass jars. It can be fun to get the kids involved to help with the cooking or to decorate the jars with ribbon or other Christmas decorations.
These jar ideas are great for Christmas gifts for friends, family and neighbours. They are also great to use for new home gifts, thank you gifts or teacher gifts.
Collect your glass jars throughout the year from pasta sauces, tomato paste or coconut oils. Or they are fairly cheap to buy from discount shops. They are easy to decorate and you can fill them with just about anything.
Here are 12 of our favourite Thermomix recipe ideas to fill up your gift jars:
1. Gingerbread Tree or Gingerbread House
Recipe link: Gingerbread Biscuits by Thermomix in Australia – featured on the Thermomix Recipe Community. This recipe is also published in the Festive Flavours Cookbook and Chip.
Facebook Group: A big thanks to the community on Thermo Gift Ideas Facebook page for the great Gingerbread in a Jar inspiration!
Tips: Try adding 3 drops of ginger doTERRA Essential Oils to the gingerbread mixture – For more information about doTerra Essential Oils please contact us on our Facebook Page: Fayi Essential Oils.
2. Macadamia Nuts
Recipe Link: Thermomix Roasted Macadamia Nuts
Tips: Add 2-3 drops of doTERRA essential oils to the nuts for flavour. Try adding cinnamon oil, pink pepper oil or black pepper oil. For more information about doTerra Essential Oils please contact us on our Facebook Page: Fayi Essential Oils.
3. Honey Cinnamon Roasted Almonds
Recipe Link: Honey Cinnamon Roasted Almonds featured on the Thermomix Recipe Community
Tip: Try adding 1 drop of cinnamon essential oil. For more information about doTerra Essential Oils please contact us on our Facebook Page: Fayi Essential Oils.
4. Sponge Cake In A Jar
Recipe Link: Our sponge cake recipe that we use to make the Avengers Birthday Cake.
Tip: Use Christmas sprinkles and flavoured icing to decorate the jar. Tie a wooden spoon to the cake jar so that the gift can be eaten immediately. Try adding doTERRA Essential Oils to the cake icing. Try lemon, lavender, spearmint, lime or peppermint. For more information about doTerra Essential Oils please contact us on our Facebook Page: Fayi Essential Oils.
5. Chai Mix
Recipe Link: Chai Latte Mix and Chai Latte featured on the Thermomix Recipe Community.
Tip: To make this recipe dairy free, use coconut milk powder. Try making chai with water and a blend of “chai flavoured” essential oils. For more information about doTerra Essential Oils please contact us on our Facebook Page: Fayi Essential Oils.
If you like the recipe tag attached to the chai jar, then please download them from us for free. Click the button below to ‘download the free printable’ and we will email the template to you.
6. Two Ingredient Dark Chocolate with Fruit and Nuts
Recipe Link: Two Ingredient Dark Chocolate trial mix featured on the blog Simply Tara Lynn. We converted this recipe using our Thermomix instructions for melting chocolate.
Tips: Try adding doTERRA Essential Oils to the chocolate such as peppermint, wild orange, cinnamon and cardamom oils. For more information about doTerra Essential Oils please contact us on our Facebook Page: Fayi Essential Oils.
7. White Chocolate Pistachio Fudge
Recipe Link: White Chocolate Pistachio Fudge from our ebook the Christmas Collection or try this recipe for Salted Caramel Fudge.
Tip: Fill a jar with small squares of fudge or wrap up with cellophane and Christmas decorations.
8. Christmas Rocky Road
Recipe Link: Christmas Rocky Road recipe from our ebook the Christmas Collection.
Tip: Fill a jar with small squares of rocky road or wrap up with cellophane and Christmas decorations.
9. Coconut Ice
Recipe Link: Coconut Ice Thermomix Recipe
Tips: Use red and green food colouring to make the Coconut Ice Christmas themed. Or try soaking beetroot in water for pink/red natural food colouring. Another cool recipe to try with beetroot is the Musk Sticks featured on the Thermomix Recipe Community.
10. Butter Biscuits
Recipe Link: Butter Biscuits from our Mezze Cookbook
Tip: Use a Christmas tree or star shape cookie press to shape the biscuits.
11. Gliko – Greek Spoon Sweets
Recipe Link: the Grape Gliko and the Quince Gliko recipes are both featured in our cookbook Mezze.
Tips: Fill up a jar with one of the Greek spoon sweets and serve with a spoon.
12. Peppermint Bark
Recipe link: Peppermint Chocolate Christmas Bark
Tip: Try adding doTERRA Essential Oils to the bark for flavouring. We like: peppermint, wild orange, cinnamon and cardamom oils. For more information about doTerra Essential Oils please contact us on our Facebook Page: Fayi Essential Oils.
MASON JAR LABELS
Check out these gift tags and mason jar labels from Simple As That Blog. They are a FREE download and super easy to print out and add to your gift jars.
