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    Home • Recipes • Types of Recipe

    Food Gifts

    Collection of easy recipes that can be given as edible gifts - such as preserves, teacakes, granola, biscuits, cookies and confections. For more inspiration, see holiday recipes for Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year.

    • soft gluten free muffins made eggless with chia seeds, no added sugar and vegan - some with walnuts on top
      Gluten-Free Banana Muffins (No Sugar, Egg-Free)
    • sliced banana coffee cake, showing a beautifully moist crumb and topped with walnuts
      Healthy Banana Bread with Coffee (Low Sugar Recipe)
    • plate of square cut flapjacks made with honey, fruit and nuts
      Healthy Flapjacks Recipe (Without Added Sugar)
    • raspberry macarons with a white chocolate ganache and raspberries, sitting on top of each other next to roses
      Raspberry Macarons (White Chocolate Ganache Filling)
    • close up of salted caramel macarons with a thick filling
      Salted Caramel Macarons
    • Lemon madeleines with a scalloped shape and hump on a plate served with a cup of tea
      How to Make Classic French Madeleines With Lemon
    • plate of dark caramelised cannelés de Bordeaux with red edible Begonia flowers
      Canelé Recipe (Cannelés de Bordeaux) - Without Beeswax
    • spoonful of creamy orange curd, naturally thickened using egg yolks
      Creamy Orange Curd Recipe - A Perfect Crêpe Filling
    • high raised round buttery biscuits with a rough texture with air-holes
      French Butter Cookies (Palets Bretons)
    • slices of chocolate marble cake for teatime
      Chocolate Marble Cake with Banana
    • slice of glossy dark gingerbread topped with candied ginger
      Pain d'épices (French Gingerbread)
    • little puff pastry spirals with mincemeat
      Mincemeat Pinwheels - Easy Puff Pastry Recipe
    • Christmas box with milk chocolate and hazelnut rochers with red ribbon in front of the decorated tree
      Milk Chocolate Hazelnut Rocher Truffles (Ferrero Style)
    • preparing jars of homemade granola for Christmas presents
      Christmas Granola (Granola de Noël)
    • chocolate disks topped with dried fruits and nuts
      Mendiants (French Chocolate Disks)
    • classic Parisian brioche with a little head on top
      Classic French Brioche - Parisian 'Brioche à Tête'
    • jar of bright pink pickled radishes with bay leaves
      Pickled Radishes Without Sugar
    • golden bar shaped financier cakes
      Traditional French Financier Cakes (Financiers)
    • pyramid shaped coconut cookie with other bite-sized shapes on a plate
      Easy Coconut Macaroons (Without Condensed Milk)
    • Tubes of brandy snaps filled with whipped cream, mint, lime and rum
      Brandy Snaps with Mojito Cream
    • bowl of chocolate granola jug milk and raspberries
      Chocolate Coconut Granola Recipe (No Added Sugar)
    • honey biscuits or cookies, golden, glazed and in love heart shapes
      Honey Biscuits with Lemon
    • cup of homemade granola topped with fresh blueberries next to a French newspaper at breakfast
      Healthy Homemade Granola (No Added Sugar)
    • pumpkin spiced macarons
      Easy Pumpkin Spice Macarons Recipe
    • 4 pots of homemade French apricot jam with lavender and reduced in sugar
      French Apricot Jam with Lavender
    • fig jam with bread and cheese
      Corsican Fig Jam (Confiture de Figues): Step by Step Recipe
    • plate of snowmen, decorated trees and gingerbread men in front of the Christmas tree
      Gingerbread Men and Decorating Ideas (Biscuits Speculoos)
    • French tuiles cookies made with almonds and rounded like tiles
      How to Make Tuiles - The Easiest French Almond Cookie
    • moist banana nut bread made with ripe bananas, chestnut flour and walnuts
      Moist Banana Nut Bread - Low in Sugar
    • plate of gooey gluten free brownies made with almond flour and melted chocolate, topped with almonds
      Gluten Free Brownies - Fudgiest Ever
    • stirring a pot of homemade mincemeat without suet
      Quick No-Suet Mincemeat (For Mince Pies and a Macaron Filling)
    • plate of christmas sweet treats in front of the tree
      Snowballs - No Bake Coconut Bites
    • spooning almond cream into unbaked jam tarts
      Macaroon Jam Tarts
    • close up of a buttery cookie with chocolate chips
      Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • bubbling plum jam with spices
      Spiced Plum Jam
    • 2 white meringue halves stuck together with cream to look like a melting snowball cake
      French Meringue Filled Snowballs
    • deep pink cherry chocolate macarons with stalks as decor
      Chocolate Cherry Ganache Macaron Filling
    • best rhubarb jam recipe, low in sugar, a hint of rose and packed with more flavour
      Rhubarb Jam - How to Thicken with Less Sugar, More Flavour
    • chocolate chip cookies in golden autumn leaves
      Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies
    • plate with 2 cranberry cookies next to clementine oranges
      Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies - Healthy Recipe
    • moist fluffy muffins with two topped with a spiral of cream cheese frosting with orange zest
      Carrot Cake Muffins
    • oat crumble squares with a date paste sandwiched in middle, cut on plate with old recipe book and tartan in background
      Matrimonial Cake (Date Squares)

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