Gift Basket Making Ideas with Edible Eatables

Making gift baskets for anyone on any occasion is very simple and assembling a pleasant gift basket is a matter of few minutes, provided you have decided what you are giving and have arranged all the necessary stuff required. Gift Basket Making Ideas are enormous and there is no hard and fast rule in assembling any kind of gift basket. Choice is all yours, what theme you want to follow in selecting gifts, how much you want to spend, what should be the size of the basket, each and everything can be easily handled if you have some ideas about it.


The first and foremost is to select the style and shape of basket you want to use. You can find a variety available in the market with handles in different colors. Get the best of a reasonable price and if you have any old one at home you can also finish up using it.

Gift Basket Making Ideas for a Baby Shower, to make the basket more personalized get to know whether it’s a baby girl or boy. For baby shower favor ideas, a bath tub can be used in place of basket as you can easily assemble all the relevant gift items in it.

If you are giving it to a baby girl go for pink color tones and prefer giving things which are for common use like bath set, body suites, pampers, napkins and toys. For boys you can select the blue or brown color and other gift items can be the same.

Gift Basket Making IdeasWith edible things, have you ever thought of making a freeze gift basket which includes ice cream, ice cake and sundae. It is really a nice idea to follow in summers or taking it for the host friend on beach party. Depending on your choice you can get one big ice cream tub and wrap it nicely with cellophane gift paper and decorate it with ribbon, or you can also bring small ice cream bowls or cups of different flavors and place them nicely in a basket. If the basket is too big and cannot be filled with ice cream only than other options to add are ice cream spoons, ice cream sauces, dressings, napkins and a book on ice making recipes.

Other types of edible gift basket can be made from bakery items like cakes, cupcakes, cookies, biscuits, sand which, burgers and many other things. If you know baking than you can also show your expertise in making the things you are good at and basket them together as a gift for your friend. An idea to entertain a female can be giving cutlery and table set along with different types of seasonings, canned fruits, and ready to eat items.

If you know the hobbies and interests of the receiver then even you can plan things very accurately. A girl who is fond of baking arrange to add baking recipe books, different types of moulds, measuring spoons and utensils and most attracting bars of cooking dark and white chocolate.