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Article #205: How to Make A Cheap and Easy Chocolate Lover's Gift Basket

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Gift baskets will always be popular and a covered strawberries, Hershey chocolates,
great idea to give as a gift. People love dark chocolates, white chocolates,
to receive gift baskets. Making your own chocolate bars, chocolate covered
chocolate lover's gift basket is cheap cherries, Belgian chocolates, chocolate
and easy. mints, and chocolate covered pretzels.
You can fill it with a variety of How about miniature or giant-size
inexpensive items and there are lots of chocolate animals, gourmet chocolate
choices.ou can easily customize each candies, Tootsie Rolls, nuts, homemade
chocolate theme gift basket to your chocolate-based cookies, pre-packaged
recipient. chocolate food items, brownie mixes,and
I've put together a few great ideas for chocolate chip cookie mixes.
making a chocolate lover's gift basket, And wooden spoons, your best chocolate
complete with instructions on how to make chip cookie recipe, your favorite
them. You can make inexpensive gift hand-written chocolate recipes, chocolate
baskets or expensive gift baskets dessert recipes, chocolate fudge recipes,
depending on your budget. hot chocolate or cocoa mixes in fancy
First make a list of your recipient's packets, coffee mug for cocoa, movie
hobbies and interests. List everything tickets and cinnamon sticks.
you can think of. You can use as many chocolate items as
Suggestions: sports, books, television you like. You can make your basket with
shows, in-house hobbies, outdoor all chocolate items or mix in a few
recreation, camping, workshop, enjoy non-chocolate items.
working with tools, golf, fishing, For gift basket wrapping you can use
computer-related, environment friendly, tulle netting or I like to use cellophane
golf, and tennis. wrap. You can buy it in large rolls. Look
Also relaxation, food, wine, spa, bath for specialty packaging outlets where you
and body, fruit, cookie, crafts, can buy it wholesale.
gardening, etc. You can tie in any Tie off the wrapped basket with ribbon.
interests into your chocolate theme. Wired fabric ribbon is best if you have
These are just a few ideas. it. For bows: You can use pre-packaged
You can find many inexpensive items for bows but making your own bows is easy and
use in making your gift baskets or the best if you can do it. Use a large or
filling your gift baskets, at 'dollar' huge bow.
stores, craft stores, party stores, Assemble all your gift basket items,
discount outlets, flea markets, close-out tools you need, etc. Now line your
stores, etc. selected gift container. Now stuff the
For gift containers you can use: any type selected filler into the gift basket to
of basket, wicker basket, straw basket, give added height to your items. Place,
bucket, laundry basket, plastic layer and arrange your selected items on
container, toy dump truck or other large the filler in the gift container. Put the
toy truck, purse, tin, Christmas tin, larger items in the back, the smaller
seasonal container, large tea pot, large items in front.
upside-down hat, or plastic storage Fill in the holes or prop up with more
container-put lid underneath. filler (shredded paper, Easter basket
Other items might be: extra-large coffee grass, wrapped chocolates, napkins or
mug, boot, potted plant holder, wire holiday napkins etc. Also you can use
basket, large pasta bowl, large popcorn 'picks' of artificial flowers to fill in
bowl, cooking pot, clay pot, tackle box, space.
colander, small wagon, skillet, antique Place your cellophane or other wrap under
trunk, champagne bucket, hamper, the gift basket. Center the gift basket
Asian-style trunk or picnic basket. on the wrap. Bring the cellophane or
For gift basket liner you can use: tissue other wrap over the top of the gift
paper, shredded paper, shredded basket and tie it with ribbon and or a
newspaper, tea towels, dish towels, hand beautiful bow! Use ribbon and bows to
towels, kitchen towels, colored towels, match your theme colors. Tuck a card in
colored napkins, placemats, diapers, baby the ribbon and that's it!
blankets or fabric pieces. You can find fabric or wired ribbon
For gift basket filler you can use: cheaply at Costco-- especially in the
shredded colored paper, straw, Easter fall prior to Christmas but often
basket grass, crumpled newspaper comics, throughout the year in some stores. You
a bed of wrapped chocolates or other can shred paper in a paper shredder. If
wrapped candy. you're going to need a lot of cellophane
For items in the container it'll depend you can purchase it wholesale through the
on the specialty or theme of the gift packaging specialty stores throughout the
basket - in this case Chocolate! With U.S. but should be easily found in craft
chocolate it's best not to include any stores.
fragrant items, unless they are wrapped General tips: Try to use non-perishable
in such a way that they don't give off items. Use freshly packaged food items,
any fragrance. Here's a small random because even packaged crackers and
sampling to give you some good ideas: cookies can go stale in a couple of
Gift certificate for massage or spa months. You can find filler flower
visit, gift certificate to favorite 'picks' at garage sales for pennies. If
store, gift certificate for restaurant, you buy wholesale they are usually around
loofah, CD of nature sounds, favorite a dollar each.
artist CD, DVD of newer release movie, Also there's nothing like learning how to
how-to video or CD, handwritten poem, make gift baskets from a video or DVD for
watch, framed photo, inspirational book, making cheap and easy gift baskets. You
spa pillows, bath pillows, spa supplies, can view it over and over again and share
or a small fluffy towel. with your children, other family members
Also flavored teas, green tea, specialty and friends.
tea, herbal tea, biscotti, tea infuser, You can even charge for classes with your
healthy snacks, fancy chocolates, boxed new-found knowledge and/or start a home
chocolates, chocolate bars, hot chocolate based business if you so desire. In any
mix, specialty coffee mix, homemade event, making a chocolate lover's gift
chocolate chip cookies, homemade basket is cheap and easy and will be
brownies, chocolate fudge, and thoroughly appreciated by the chocolate
Ghirardelli chocolates. lover recipient.
Or chocolate covered raisins, chocolate






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