Do you find it ridiculous to spend hundreds of dollars each holiday season buying gifts for everyone you know?When you are splurging on your family, friends, and even neighbors, you can find yourself in debt quickly.
Instead of buying department store items this holiday season, considering making sweets as gifts.
Don't worry; you don't have to be a master baker to get through this task.
It can actually be quite fun! The first thing you should do is figure out what you want to make.
Since some of your neighbors might have peanut or nut allergies, you should stick with something that doesn't contain nuts of any kind.
Something like fudge or holiday cookies are great to start with.
If you want to keep it simple, only choose one or two different sweets to create.
Next, find great packages to house your sweets.
Holiday tins are perfect.
Get one tin per family.
Then start baking your treats and place them decoratively in your tins.
Remember that you will need to deliver them soon after baking.
If you wait too long, they will not be edible at all.
So, this is something you might want to do the week of the holiday and take them around personally to hand them out.
When you create sweets as gifts you will find that you are having a great time and spending less money than you usually do.
It is a great feeling to get a gift that someone has spent time on as well, so your friends and family will love it!