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Last-Minute Edible Christmas Gift Ideas

Course: beverage
Cuisine: american
Keyword: drinks

Ingredients

Infused Vodka

  • 1.5 L of your favourite vodka I just Chopin vodka

Bottle 1:

  • ½ cup fresh blackberries

Bottle 2:

  • 1 ½ fresh figs sliced into quarters
  • 1 tbsp fresh cardamom pods
  • 1 vanilla bean split down the center

Bottle 3:

  • pickles and pickle juice

Homemade Sugar Cubes

  • Ingredients makes approx. 1 cup of sugar cubes
  • 1 cup granulated sugar or brown sugar
  • 2 tsp water
  • food colouring if desired

Creamy Hot Chocolate Mix

  • Ingredients makes enough mix for 3 ½ cups of hot chocolate
  • ½ cup powdered coffee creamer
  • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • ½ cup skim milk powder
  • ½ cup confectioner’s sugar
  • 1 candy cane

Instructions

Infused Vodka

  • Place the ingredients to flavour the vodka into glass bottles. If making pickle vodka, add 1 part pickle juice to 3 parts vodka. Pour the vodka on top and seal the bottles.
  • Allow the ingredients to steep for 4 days. You can strain the vodka to remove the ingredients, or keep them in the bottles for visual interest.

Homemade Sugar Cubes

  • If colouring your sugar cubes, combine the water and food colouring. Add the water to the sugar and mix well, until the sugar resembles wet sand.
  • Press into a silicone mold and press down firmly on the surface with a knife, until the sugar is densely packed into the mold. Allow to dry at room temperature overnight.
  • Gently unmold the sugar cubes and package in a jar or cellophane bag.

Creamy Hot Chocolate Mix

  • Choose a cute mug for gifting and place a cellophane bag into the mug. Pour each powdered ingredient into the bag, smoothing each layer evenly to create pretty, distinct layers. Secure with a string, sliding the candy cane onto the string while tying.
  • Include a note along with the mug and hot chocolate mix telling the gift receiver to mix all the dry ingredients together and to mix 1 cup hot water with ½ cup mix for a cup of hot cocoa. Alternatively, mix the entire hot chocolate mix with 3 ½ cups hot water.

Video

Notes

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