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    Home • Recipes • Types of Recipe

    Food Gifts

    Collection of easy recipes that can be given as edible gifts - such as preserves, teacakes, granola, biscuits, cookies and confections. For more inspiration, see holiday recipes for Thanksgiving, Christmas and the New Year.

    • Pain d'épices (French Gingerbread)
    • Gingerbread Men and Decorating Ideas (Biscuits Speculoos)
    • Banana Coffee Cake (Low Sugar)
    • French Butter Cookies (Palets Bretons)
    • How to Make Tuiles - The Easiest French Almond Cookie
    • Moist Banana Nut Bread - Low in Sugar
    • Healthy Homemade Granola with Maple (No Added Sugar)
    • Easy Raspberry Macaron Filling - White Chocolate Ganache Recipe
    • Chocolate Marble Cake with Banana
    • Gluten Free Brownies - Fudgiest Ever
    • Healthy Flapjacks (Barres de céréales)
    • Financier Cakes (Financiers)
    • Classic French Brioche - Parisian 'Brioche à Tête'
    • Quick No-Suet Mincemeat (For Mince Pies and a Macaron Filling)
    • Snowballs - No Bake Coconut Bites
    • Canelé Recipe (Cannelés de Bordeaux)
    • Macaroon Jam Tarts
    • Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
    • Pumpkin Spice Macarons - with White Chocolate Ganache
    • Spiced Plum Jam
    • Mendiants (French Chocolate Disks)
    • French Meringue Filled Snowballs
    • Chocolate Granola Recipe with Coconut (No Added Sugar)
    • Chocolate Cherry Ganache Macaron Filling
    • Rhubarb Jam - How to Thicken with Less Sugar, More Flavour
    • Pickled Radishes Without Sugar
    • Creamy Orange Curd - A Perfect Crêpe Filling Recipe
    • Honey Biscuits with Lemon
    • Chocolate Chip Hazelnut Cookies
    • Mincemeat Pinwheels - Easy Puff Pastry Recipe
    • Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies - Healthy Recipe
    • Christmas Granola (Granola de Noël)
    • Coconut Macaroons (Rochers Coco)
    • Carrot Cake Muffins
    • Matrimonial Cake (Date Squares)
    • Salted Caramel Macarons
    • Brandy Snaps with Mojito Cream
    • Scottish Macaroon Bar Snowballs
    • Salted Caramel Sauce (Caramel au beurre salé)
    • Confiture de Lait Recipe and How to Store Vanilla Beans
    • Melting Moments - Mini Oat Cookies
    • Chocolate Hazelnut Rocher Truffles

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