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Cookie Hostess Gift

Hi everyone! I’m Ali and write about vintage goodies, DIY, and food over at Pies & Puggles. I am so excited to have been asked to share a handmade holiday idea here at Persia Lou and I hope you all enjoy my holiday cookie packaging!

There are a lot of ways to overindulge during the holidays: too much shopping, too much booze, too much family time. If youíre a Pies & Puggles reader, it shouldnít surprise you that my particular favorite is too much baking.

Not only does a marathon cookie baking session early in the season get me in the holiday mood, it also provides for enough hostess gifts, potluck offerings and drop-in guest snacking enjoyment to last through the New Year. If you’re interested in organizing a cookie baking marathon of your own, you can check out this post. But today I’m going to share a little packaging idea for giving homemade cookies to a special holiday host or hostess.

What you’ll need:

  • Plastic wrap
  • Craft paper
  • Printer paper
  • Scissors
  • Scotch tape
  • Bakerís twine or ribbon
  • Decorative tin or box
  • Tissue paper (optional)
Gather the cookies you want to pack up. I recommend 4-6 of each type depending on size.
Next, wrap each stack in plastic wrap. This will help keep them fresh if people donít want to eat them right away and it keeps any buttery ones from getting grease on the craft paper youíre going to use to dress them up. I wrap them upside down so when you turn them over, you can see the top of the cookie.
Cut a strip of craft paper just wide enough to cover about 75% of the surface of your cookie stack and long enough that you can overlap the ends and tape it together on the bottom.
Wrap it around the stack length-wise or width-wise. You can keep them consistent or vary them from stack to stack.

Type out the name of each cookie in a fun font (I used Jane Austen, which you can download here for free) and print it out on regular printer paper. Then cut out each label. Tape the label to the appropriate stack.

Tie baker’s twine or a ribbon around each stack for a bit of color.

Pile your cookies into your decorative tin. The vintage tin I found was a bit large for the number of cookies I had so I lined the inside with tissue paper prior to stacking the cookie parcels. This arrangement also looks nice laid out in a regular gift box so the recipient can seen the names of each of the cookies when he or she opens the box. I just didn’t happen to have one that was deep enough.

Finally, tie with a big, festive ribbon.

Looking for more creative ways to package up cookies for gift-giving? Check out this a cute as a button cookie exchange package that incorporates the cookie recipe on Pies & Puggles.

Thanks so much Alexis for asking me to be a part of the Handmade Holiday series!

Thanks, Ali! Now I’m wishing I was on Ali’s gift list! 😉 Be sure to stop by Pies and Puggles for Ali’s latest baking and DIYs (like this fantastic chalkboard globe). And don’t miss her etsy shop full of vintage goodness, Delightfully Modern!

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  1. Marcie Lovett says

    November 19, 2013 at 11:34 pm

    Hi, Alexis. Came over from Pies and Puggles and found great stuff on your blog!<br /><br />If you&#39;re not the cookie-baking sort, you could wrap up a bunch of bakery cookies and make people think you spent time in the kitchen. When they ask if you made them, you answer: Why, yes, I did. (You did make the wrapping, didn&#39;t you?)<br /><br />Just don&#39;t try it with Pepperidge Farms. Someone