how the cutest little cookie gifts came to be.
one thing that my favorite food blogs have taught me is that it’s allll in the presentation. once i knew i was going to make cookie baggies for coworkers for the holidays, i knew i wanted them to be dolled up in a festive and creative manner. for not a ton of money, i gathered all the supplies i’d need for gift tags and baggies to provide a little home for my holiday cookie collection.
what i used for 30 gifts:
wilton party baggies ($2.99)
three rolls of snowman and snowflake ribbon (on SALE! $2.38 total)
white poster board ($0.99)
foam snowflake stickers ($1.00 and i only used 1/3 of them, so really $0.33)
curling ribbon (had it)
scissors (had it)
markers (had it)
three hole punch (had it)
so allll of that cost me less than $8. YAY!
i cut up the poster board into 30 fairly uniformly sized tags and punched a hole in the top left corner of each. then i stuck the snowflake sticker on and wrote my little (extremely unoriginal) holiday greeting on each of them. before i knew it, i had 30 gift tags:
i didn’t want to personalize the gift tags in case i forgot people or someone wasn’t around for the end of the week and i couldn’t give a gift, etc. all cookie packages were created equal.
next up, i gathered all the contents of my cookie baggies. not that you haven’t heard them enough, but just as a refresher, this year’s offerings were: peppermint bark, snowball cookies, hot chocolate cookies and iced sugar cookies (stars and candy canes).
good variety, something for everyone, yadda yadda. everyone’s favorites seemed to be the super-classic sugar cookies! according to my critic brad, most people load up poorly-crafted sugar cookies with tons of icing, but my cookies were good and could have stood on their own and the light amount of icing/glaze was a perfect, sweet touch.
each bag got a healthy sampling based on the batches that i made: two hot chocolates, one snowball, one peppermint bark, one of each sugar cookie. all the odds and ends extras went on my new snowman plate (once again, THANKS MAMA!) as the refill plate.
then, i tied the bag tightly with curling ribbon and attached the gift tag. i didn’t double knot or anything, though, because i wanted the bags to be resealable, more or less, in case my giftees didn’t want to eat half a dozen cookies in one fell swoop. i know firsthand that when these little guys are double and triple knotted, it doesn’t end well for anyone.
on top of that, i put one of my three festive ribbons - snowmen or snowflakes - and before you knew it, i had a fun gift to hand out!
i threw them all in a basket that was left over from a gift to the department that had been sitting on my desk and as an after thought, hung the candy canes left over from my peppermint bark.
after that, i slapped on my biggest christmas elf smile i could find (“i just like to smile. smiling’s my favorite!” -buddy the elf) and passed out my presents to a very eager crowd.
happy holidays, everyone!
