Homemade Food Gift II: Christmas Coffee
We’re nearing December and so I’m helping you out by coming up with some Homemade Food Gift Ideas. Read on to find out how to make your own Christmas Coffee Blend. Head over here for a Homemade Candy Cane Hot Chocolate Powder and don’t forget to get yourself some of my free Christmas Gift Tags by clicking here. If you’re not making homemade food gifts this year, never fear! I’ve got you covered with an Amazon Store full of gifts for foodies with ideas for kids and adults alike. It’s going to be such a tasty holiday season!
Please! Somebody help me get into the Christmas spirit. I need it early this year.
Why? Partly because I’m on my son’s PTA Board and we’re having our Winter Festival this weekend (if you live near me and have kids you should come! We’ll have a big snow slide, bounce houses, pictures with Santa, a caricaturist, music, kite-making, a Christmas Tree Raffle, and so so much more. Email me for the deets).
But also my in-laws from the UK and my brother and his family arrive for our early Christmases together next week. This of course means that all of my shopping needs to be done (it’s not!) and the house needs to be decorated (it’s not!) and I need to be channeling the Christmas spirit (I’m not!).
This morning, I posted on Facebook asking what people put into their coffee other than milk/sugar. Somebody mentioned Eggnog. I thought, “Hmmm…If I add Christmas to my coffee and then chug-a-lug maybe the spirit I require will be jolted into me.” I crushed up some Christmas spices and tossed them into a jar with some ground coffee and then used it to make my morning joe.
The flavor is subtle with just a little something special added to my cup. I think it’s making a difference because I found myself heading for the garage in search of the Christmas tree and I might have been humming Jingle Bells as I went.
Because the cinnamon sticks are left chunky in this homemade coffee blend, it looks really pretty in a jar. This makes it the perfect homemade food gift that you could give as a hostess gift or as a Christmas gift to someone with a caffeine addiction.
If you’re giving some homemade food gifts this year (this homemade coffee blend or something else), don’t forget to get yourself some of my free Christmas Gift Tags and coordinating recipe tags (these have more room so you can write a personal note or the kind of instructions that are sometimes required with a homemade food gift). Here’s one of the gift tags on a little jar of Homemade Christmas Coffee:
- 4 cups dark roasted ground coffee
- 8 cinnamon sticks
- 80 whole allspice berries
- 40 whole cloves
- 20 whole black peppercorns
- Pour the ground coffee into a large jar or container that has a tight-fitting lid.
- Into a mortar, break up the cinnamon sticks a bit using your fingers. Add the remaining ingredients and then use a pestle to gently crush everything up. You want the cinnamon sticks to still be in chunky pieces and most of the other spices to be less-than-whole but not powdery. (Be careful not to crush too forcefully as the little allspice berries like to come jumping out of the bowl and onto the floor, which is annoying if you don’t notice them there and then find them stuck to your feet later on).
- Add the crushed up spices to the coffee in the jar. Put the lid on and shake it all up.
Good post. Homemade coffee seems to make a good Christmas present. Thanks for sharing.
So happy you liked the idea. It is a delicious gift for sure!
I absolutely love this idea. Will share it with my readers right away. Great work! :)
Danijela recently posted: Peppermint Mocha Recipe (5 Minute Recipe)
I saw your tweet about this coffee blend. Thanks, Danijela! I appreciate it!
This is such an awesome idea! I can smell the coffee from here!
Thank you…sounds awesome…MERRY CHRISTMAS to you…
I absolutely love this and wish I was going to be waking up to a cup of this tomorrow morning! What a great gift idea!
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Thanks Aggie. You know, I made up a batch to give as gifts and we’ve already drunk it all ourselves! I’m going to make some more today but I’m afraid that it also will not manage to leave our house.
I’ve been known to add a bit of ras-al-hanout or seven spice to my coffee… mmmmm! But my “house blend” is about 50/50 French Roast and Ethiopian Harrar and (she said modestly) it’s pretty darn fine on its own! :-)
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Hey girl, I’m all about Christmas spirit right now… I can help! ;)
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(oops I mean gifts)
Nice idea!
As for the giftI have two words for you… Online shopping!!