Last-Minute Edible Gift Ideas

From our friends at Food52.com, whose weekly recipe contests we've been featuring on HuffPost Food, comes this clever collection of recipes that can be whipped up in the waning days of Holiday gift-giving.

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[Krinkle Kut]

08:38 PM on 01/05/2011

so was this all just a shameless ad for food 52? seems like it. Dreadful sugar cookies, lacking cream of tarter or baking soda. Also known as rocks. Enjoy!

[Ozark Homesteader]

12:10 AM on 12/22/2010

How about cashew bark? It's crunchy, buttery toffee encapsulated with chocolate and cashews? And since a poster below wanted recipes, here it is: http://ozarkhomesteader.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/chocolate-cashew-bark-sweet-slightly-salty-decadent-toffee/

[Laxsmi de Potrero]

07:42 PM on 12/21/2010

does huffnfluff get some sort of kickback for promoting non-healthy food choices?

[Nosybear]

02:38 PM on 12/21/2010

I tried to eat a gift idea once. Tasted like cardboard.

[Kay-B]

02:35 PM on 12/21/2010

Yuuuuuuuuum.

[Sue Bryant]

02:15 PM on 12/21/2010

Macarons please, not macaroons. Not the same thing.

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

12:54 PM on 12/21/2010

For my brothers and their significant others, I am putting together a cookie in a jar. It's all the makings for cookies, minus eggs, milk, and vanilla. It comes along with a recipe, so they can make it at their leisure.

For one of my best friends, as well as for my family and myself, I made four jars (total) of my homemade marinated olives. This is a very coveted treat and everyone who tries them - even those who say they don't like olives - get hooked.

[peachpage01]

06:52 PM on 12/21/2010

That's a fantastic idea. I've seen them in stores for 3 times the price of what it would cost one to put this together, so kudos to you for doing what I've been thinking of doing for the past 8 years. It's time!

[notsotupelohoney]

08:29 PM on 12/21/2010

Are you allowed to put food ideas out there WITHOUT sharing the recipes? Especially marinated olives? It doesn't sound right to me. I'm sure your breaking some rule or other.

[Ozark Homesteader]

12:11 AM on 12/22/2010

I agree!

[DrJohnnySkeptic]

01:59 PM on 12/24/2010

I got the "Cookie-in-a-Jar" recipes from www.allrecipes.com - Cowboy Cookie Mix and Chocolate Cookie Mix.

I'm actually not making them, as I have already made three desserts for Christmas. Those are definitely some goodies!

The marinated olives recipe is a coveted recipe and I have never given it out as long as I have been making them, which has been years.

Sorry. :-(