Gift Making @ somerville kitchen

Forget about shopping and crowds, the best gifts are those made with care and love. The card, a print from a Marwan Khoury original (details at artistwebsites.com) was just the start.

But shopping could not be completely eliminated all together since the amount of planned baking required a multitude of trips.

Three days of baking resulted in packing up many goodies to be included in gift baskets to friends and neighbours.

Those were:


Chocolate chips rum balls, wrapped in the cutest small Christmas bags (see recipe at Holiday Baking) 

Mom's cookies wrapped in long skinny bags to accommodate the snowmen (see recipe at Mom's Cookies).

 

And not to forget the somerville kitchen Christmas Cake (see recipe at Festive Cake).

Two local specialty stores got my business to enhance the gift baskets. 

The first is Shaktea. 


With their exotic new teas that appeared right in time for Christmas, it was difficult to restrain from trying some of those teas on my adventurous pallets' friends.

The second is European Specialty Importers on 220 Prior Street in Vancouver.

This German store goes crazy at Christmas with the most delicious imported Christmas German specialties.

More on their Christmas products at Christmas Gifting.


And the last chores of Christmas done, now I am all set to enjoy the holiday.

Merry Christmas!