Please share your "neighbor" gifts. **Updated with mine**

[Claudia1]

We live in a friendly neighborhood and several of us share gifts of holiday breads, snacks, candies, etc.... Most have teenagers and will eat anything!

If you have a recipe, please post it. I know that this is not the Recipe Board but it would be helpful to see the recipe along with your description.

Any good ideas out there?

 

[CamColt]

I got the neighbors the Twelve Coffees of Christmas, and I plan to make cookies to go with them. Im using the recipe that is on the bag of Mint Hershey Kisses. They sound yummy!

 

[Olaf]

I just make toffee and put it in a tin. Everybody loves it.

 

[tiggerlover]

I usually make cookie platters for everyone. As a matter of fact we delivered them around the neighborhood today.

 

[Wendy]

Claudia, if I were your neighbor, I would LOVE to receive some of those scrumptious looking candies!!!

 

[Kermit]

Wendy took my answer. I'd love for you to be my neighbor and give me chocolate.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

This year I think I am going to make cheese balls, add a small box of crackers, and a touch of homemade cookies. Too keep costs down I think I will put them in a decorative box in tissue paper.

 

[CamColt]

I just thought of something I made last year, that I did get a couple of favorable comments on. My mother is making them for her work right now, so thats why I remembered. They are very good and very easy to make.

Rocky Roads

1 jar dry roasted salted peanuts
1 bag Nestles chocolate chips
1 bag mini marshmallows
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 tablespoons butter

Melt chips, butter, and milk slowly in a pan. In a separate bowl mix nuts & marshmallows. When the chips are melted, combine the 2 mixtures. Pour in buttered foil pan & refridgerate. When hardened, cut into squares.

Enjoy!

 

[Pembo]

I gave my 2 neighbors small fruit plates last year. Just a couple apples, oranges, etc and some bulk candy. Nothing fancy........

 

[BCVOwner2002]

Here are some gifts I've given over the years:

Assorted nuts

Potpourri - holiday fragrance

Small Yankee Candles - holiday fragrance

Lindt Chocolates

 

[FOJMO]

when you work 40+ hours a week and are at theatre rehearsals, choir rehearsals, etc. we aren't home long enough to see anyone much less know anyone.

But all of your ideas sound like nice ones.

 

[Claudia1]

I had a great idea this weekend! Tell me what you think........

I adapted a dynamite (dry) Hot Chocolate Mix recipe and I bought some neat but inexpensive glass jars for the mix. I then added bunches of flavored candy canes (French Vanilla, Berries 'n Creme, Cinnamon, etc....) with the instructions on how to make the hot chocolate and also to stir with the candy canes for holiday flavors. Put it all in some Christmas bags and delivered them tonight.

(.......... truthfully..... am I off the wall? Was it too weird?)

Here's the recipe:
10 C. dry milk powder
5 1/2 C. confectioner's sugar, sifted
2 C. unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
2 1/2 C. powdered non-dairy creamer
2 boxes chocolate pudding mix (not instant)
3 1/2 C. miniature marshmallows

This makes approximately 20 cups of dry mix.

To make the hot chocolate, stir 1/2 C. of the dry mix into 3/4 boiling water. Drink as is or stir with a flavored candy cane for flavored hot chocolate.

 

[nativetxn]

It sounds wonderful, Claudia. I think you were right on the mark

 

[Serena]

That sounds delicious Claudia.

 

[LuvTigger]

I bought some Xmas Tupperware from a friend and I'm going to fill them with a variety of goodies:

* Almond cookies (adapted from a cookie press recipe given to me by Tiggerlover)
* Choco-Coco Pecan Crisps (which I tried and turned out very well! What's nice is you can prepare it ahead of time and bake as needed, I'll post the recipe later, I don't have it in front of me)
* Ghiradelli Chocolate Truffles (I can post this recipe later too)
* MAYBE Ghiradelli Chocolate Fudge
* Biscotti
* Blueberry Mochi (not sure how widely available Mochiko is around the nation, and not sure if people outside of Hawaii will like it!)

Another idea, someone gave this to us last Xmas: get a Tupperware container and fill it with the dry ingredients for cookies. All they need to do is dumpt it out and add the wet ingredients, and bake. Plus, they have a container to use!