Simple Holiday Gift: Give Holiday Cookies on a Vintage Plate

Want to make your gift of homemade cookies a little more special? Wrap them up on a pretty vintage plate specially chosen for the recipient, and make the plate part of the gift. And while they add a ton of class, small, charming plates like this don't cost much just a couple dollars tops at a local thrift store.

While it isn't easy or cheap to find sets of matching plates, single mismatched plates are plentiful and usually very inexpensive at thrift stores. (Antique stores and flea markets can be a different story, but you could certainly splurge on a big-ticket plate for a special recipient.) Even in the big city I live in, most cost between 25 cents and $2.

Yet they add so much to the simple gift of homemade cookies. When packaging cookies this way, I'm always surprised at how touched and delighted my friends are when they find out the specially-chosen little plate is theirs to keep.

Do you have any packaging ideas for making the gift of homemade cookies a little more special?

Related: Pretty Packaging Ideas for Homemade Cookie Gifts

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5 Ways to Package Cookies for Gift-Giving

Stack cookies in mason jars and tie with some string for a pretty and practical look.

Giving homemade cookies as gifts this year? Try one of these five pretty packaging ideas to really make it special.

Related: Gifts of Jam: Pretty Packaging Ideas

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Just-Baked Cookies Anytime: Give the Gift of Frozen Cookie Dough

There are only so many homemade cookies a person can eat before they go stale. But give the gift of homemade frozen cookie dough, and you've just guaranteed several weeks or months of freshly-baked cookie goodness for the recipient.

There are a couple ways to present the cookie dough. You can portion it out before freezing and package the individually frozen balls in a freezer bag or, if you think the dough will be baked in a big batch, you can transfer it to a paper ice cream container for the recipient to scoop out themselves. But I think the simplest, prettiest presentation is wrapping a frozen cylinder of slice-and-bake cookie dough in parchment paper, with the baking instructions written on the outside. (If the person you are giving the dough to is a less experienced baker, you'll want to attach more detailed directions and an approximate use-by date.)

Frozen cookie dough makes an excellent hostess gift, or just a thoughtful, homemade gift that keeps giving long past the cookie avalanche of the holidays.

Have you ever given cookie dough as a gift? What are your favorite cookies to freeze?

Related: Snack Recipe: Peanut Butter & Jelly Icebox Cookies

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