Gifts from Your Heart and Your Kitchen...

Home-baked goodies are the perfect gift for family and friends! Not only do they taste delicious...they say, "I made this because I love you!" Plus as an added bonus if you included your children not only will you bond but you will also be creating holiday memories that they will always cherish!

So for the next few days I'll be posting a variety of easy to make and incredibly delicious holiday goodies.

Here is a list of some Homemade Gourmet baked goodies.

A. Great Baked Cookies: Add in ideas...pecans, chocolate chips, peanut butter chips
White Chocolate Cran-Orange cookies
Awesome Oatmeal cookies
Chocolate Chunk cookies
Peanut Butter cookies

B.Muffins:
Mocha Cappuccino muffins
Mini Pecan Pie muffins
Strawberry Bread muffins

C. Breads: Large loaf, mini loaves, or muffins...made with HG Basic Sweet Bread Mix
Banana Nut Bread
Apple Spice bread
Pumpkin bread

D. Other Ideas:
Five Minute Fudge....optional add-ins: toffee chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips, chocolate mint chips, chopped cashews, chopped walnuts, toasted coconut
Butterscotch Blondies
Coconut Truffles


Perfect Packages for that elegant look:
*Chinese Food Containers....you can get holiday style or different print/designs
* Decorative Tins
*Cloth Lined Wicker or Metal Baskets
*Beautiful Cookie Jar
*Santa Claus Cookie Plate
*Christmas Stocking

For over 225 Holiday recipes, just go to the Key to the Kitchen homepage and select ‘Holiday’ in the “By Lifestyle Needs” search field. Some of the great recipes you will find are:

Baked Lemon and Honey Turkey
Hearty Green Bean Casserole
Little Apple Pie Crisps
Nanny Winn’s Dressing
Pumpkin Roll

To get to our Recipe database..Key to the Kitchen...go to my website www.homemadegourmet.com/marylou and hit the 'recipes' tab!