In the pre-New Year rush, we may not have time to run around florist shops looking for packaging materials for our little culinary gifts.
It doesn’t matter, because you can use some things that are always available at home or in the office.
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Material for FM Christmas culinary gifts
And FM "Journey to the Nutcracker Kingdom"

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CD sleeves
Yes, yes, simple paper CD sleeves with a transparent window.. It’s as if they were specially invented for gingerbread!
Clear CD bags work well too. Their disadvantage is that they do not hold their shape well. It can be easily eliminated by inserting a strip of cardboard cut exactly to the width into the bottom of the bag. You can also put a New Year's card with congratulations in the same bag for the cookies.

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Menage basket made of whatman paper
For this we will need a sheet of A3 size paper.
Cut a square out of it with a side of 297 mm (the length of the shorter side). We divide each side of the square into three and draw it along these marks, as if we were drawing a grid for a game of tic-tac-toe. We make folds along these lines, the folds should look down. On the four corner squares we make diagonal folds, these folds should face up.
Now we bring the bent corners to the center and, using a needle, collect them onto a strong thread. We tighten the thread, tie it, secure the knot, cut off the excess thread. We decorate the junction of the corners with a ribbon or something else.
The menage basket is ready. You can put sweets, cookies or other small gifts in it, and decorate the outer sides with applique or drawings.

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It is easy to make a cubic gift box from the same blank.
You just need to not bring the corners-ears to the center, but press them from the inside to the walls and attach them - glue them with glue, tape or using a stapler.

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Pencils, markers, felt-tip pens
These stationery supplies will help you decorate your box or basket at no extra cost. Before final assembly, we draw snowflakes, stars or Christmas trees on the sides, and write good wishes to the recipient.
Nowadays it is fashionable to stylize everything and everyone as “houses”. Why not take advantage of this idea - drawing windows and doors is not at all difficult!
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Stationery files
Any gift will look better if you wrap it in a transparent rustling film - lavsan. Instead, we can use regular office file pockets. It is enough just to carefully cut off the strip intended for the binder, and we already have a ready-made gift bag in our hands.
The package size, by the way, is very practical. For example, our menagerie basket will fit perfectly into it. Well, except that the corners in the center will have to be joined not end-to-end, but slightly overlapping.

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If this bag is too big for your purposes, you can simply cut it into sheets and wrap small gifts like candy, tied with a ribbon.

Now is the time that edible gifts no longer seem strange and people happily accept homemade baked goods, sweets and simply delicacies brought from vacation.

In this review, you can find your favorite, simple and beautiful way to package these goodies.

The easiest way to make a nice little gift with your own hands, in my opinion, is to bake cookies, package them beautifully and give them as a gift. After all, cookies, in fact, do not require special shapes and ingredients.

And I will be happy to share with you the recipe for my favorite, very tasty lazy cookies.

Ingredients:

We measure dry ingredients without a slide, pouring them loosely into a measuring container with a spoon and without compacting them.

We will need enough for 30 large cookies:

355 g flour;

156 grams of sugar (preferably grind in a processor);

1/4 tsp. spoons of salt;

226 g butter at room temperature;

2 tsp. spoons of vanilla essence;

2 table. spoons of cream cheese. Philadelphia, cream cheese or regular, not very fatty cottage cheese are suitable.

Preparation:

1. Mix butter and sugar. Add salt and essence as desired. Then add the cheese and carefully add the flour.

2. Mix everything until smooth.

3. If desired, you can add chocolate, nuts, raisins or lemon zest to the dough.

4. Divide the dough into 2 parts, shape each part into a disk, wrap in film and keep in the refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.

The dough can be refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 2 weeks. Then defrost in the refrigerator.

5. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.

6. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

7. Roll out the dough to about 5 mm thick, cut out cookies from it. We don’t skimp on flour for the sprinkling; it won’t be noticeable later.

You can make the cookies round, or you can cut themed figures for holiday gifts using cookie cutters.

For Halloween:

For the New Year

For a birthday

For Valentine's Day

8. Bake for about 10 minutes (it’s best to check after 8 minutes because thin cookies burn quickly).

9. Remove the finished cookies from the oven, cool and carefully transfer with a spatula to a plate or package.

And now I will tell and show how to pack as a treat these cookies or other sweets.

Of course, the easiest thing is to just put it in a beautiful bag, and glue a cute ready-made sticker on top, or glue a small peak with colored decorative tape to decorate desserts.

The bag can be tied with a two-color cord several times, and glued (or attached to the cord itself) a piece of paper (or a ready-made tag) with handwritten text and the name of the person for whom it is all intended.

I also inserted a small flag in the middle (a ready-made pike for desserts).

Peaks come in different colors, shapes, sizes and themes.

If there are a lot of cookies, then choose a larger bag in advance; the transparent one will make it easy to see what kind of gift it is. That's why he's good))!

Tie the bag with a beautiful ribbon, lace or lace braid and secure some small decoration. In my case, these are cute flowers.

Also, a few cookies will look great in a craft box with a window.

Tie the box on top with decorative ribbons with various figured decorations and cotton cords.

Attach a flower, a sticker with an inscription, or a piece of paper with a handwritten wish.

The emphasis on the box can be placed either on the middle of the window or on the edge of the box - it will look equally good.

Another way of packaging is to give cookies in a colorful opaque bag, in which you can still keep the secret of the gift).

Such bags themselves are good because they are made in bright colors and can be used as gifts for children, for example, in a kindergarten. Due to the folding of the paper, they are quite voluminous.

On the first bag, I made colored flags and glued them to a paper cord, which I secured with a stapler.

I attached a flower of a suitable size to the side.

And in the middle, again, I used a sticker and wrote it by hand.

I placed emphasis on the sticker using a marker.

On the other two I used lace braid, paper cord, a flower and paper drinking straws and stickers.

We close the bag with a sticker so that the cookies do not spill out.

General packing tips.

1. To begin with, if you are packing cookies, let them cool and place them on a napkin to remove excess fat.

3. Think about whether you want to make this gift personalized or with some kind of wish.

4. You can use ready-made mini-postcards, tags, stickers with inscriptions, or simply cut out a piece of paper, sign or draw something.

5. You can write directly on the packaging, as I did in one of the examples, using a permanent marker. In fact, if the marker is permanent, you can write on a regular plastic bag with it. You can draw a cyclic pattern, stars, circles, hearts.

6. Ribbon always decorates the packaging. It can be a regular lace, floss, paper ribbon, shabby, satin ribbon, waxed cord - whatever you have that suits the idea and color.

7. Stickers help a lot, because even if you just cover the package with a beautiful sticker, it already takes on a special, cuter look.

8. If you have boxes of different sizes at home, packing an edible gift will not be difficult.

Thus, here is what I recommend having at home in order to quickly turn cookies into a beautiful gift for a child or adult:

Paper or transparent bags;

Boxes of different sizes, it’s good if they have a transparent window;

Ribbons;

Laces;

Lace;

Various stickers;

Permanent marker or felt-tip pens;

Craft or plain paper;

I hope these tips help you and give you inspiration!

In the pre-New Year rush, we may not have time to run around florist shops looking for packaging materials for our little culinary gifts.
It doesn’t matter, because you can use some things that are always available at home or in the office.
**
Material for
And FM "Journey to the Nutcracker Kingdom"

**
CD sleeves
Yes, yes, simple paper CD sleeves with a transparent window.. It’s as if they were specially invented for gingerbread!
Clear CD bags work well too. Their disadvantage is that they do not hold their shape well. It can be easily eliminated by inserting a strip of cardboard cut exactly to the width into the bottom of the bag. You can also put a New Year's card with congratulations in the same bag for the cookies.

**
Menage basket made of whatman paper
For this we will need a sheet of A3 size paper.
Cut a square out of it with a side of 297 mm (the length of the shorter side). We divide each side of the square into three and draw it along these marks, as if we were drawing a grid for a game of tic-tac-toe. We make folds along these lines, the folds should look down. On the four corner squares we make diagonal folds, these folds should face up.
Now we bring the bent corners to the center and, using a needle, collect them onto a strong thread. We tighten the thread, tie it, secure the knot, cut off the excess thread. We decorate the junction of the corners with a ribbon or something else.
The menage basket is ready. You can put sweets, cookies or other small gifts in it, and decorate the outer sides with applique or drawings.

(photos enlarge by click)
**
It is easy to make a cubic gift box from the same blank.
You just need to not bring the corners-ears to the center, but press them from the inside to the walls and attach them - glue them with glue, tape or using a stapler.

(photos enlarge by click)
**
Pencils, markers, felt-tip pens
These stationery supplies will help you decorate your box or basket at no extra cost. Before final assembly, we draw snowflakes, stars or Christmas trees on the sides, and write good wishes to the recipient.
Nowadays it is fashionable to stylize everything and everyone as “houses”. Why not take advantage of this idea - drawing windows and doors is not at all difficult!
**
Stationery files
Any gift will look better if you wrap it in a transparent rustling film - lavsan. Instead, we can use regular office file pockets. It is enough just to carefully cut off the strip intended for the binder, and we already have a ready-made gift bag in our hands.
The package size, by the way, is very practical. For example, our menagerie basket will fit perfectly into it. Well, except that the corners in the center will have to be joined not end-to-end, but slightly overlapping.

(photos enlarge by click)
If this bag is too big for your purposes, you can simply cut it into sheets and wrap small gifts like candy, tied with a ribbon.

The tradition of giving each other gifts for the New Year holidays will never cease to exist. New Year's gifts can be very different.

Decorating delicious surprises

Such an unusual holiday surprise can act as a corporate gift for colleagues or even friends and relatives, etc. You can make a whole one, which can consist not only of gingerbread and, but also,.

Don't forget about decorating Christmas presents. But how can you package gingerbread cookies and gingerbread cookies for a gift? To pack such a gift, you can use some kind.

Place a beautiful openwork napkin at the bottom of the box. Place the baked goods on a napkin. You can lay it in several rows, alternating with each other. A box.

Don’t forget that the wrapper should convey a festive mood, so it’s best to choose bright shades with sparkles. For originality, you can glue rhinestones or sequins to the box lid yourself.

Another option for presenting a gift set of gingerbread and cookies is to place them on a beautiful table. It is better if it is decorated in a New Year or Christmas style.

Sweets should also be placed on a napkin. Then wrap all this beauty in beautiful transparent paper or film, securing it on top with a ribbon or bow.

This is how you can present gingerbread cookies or gingerbread in gift wrapping, and you don’t even have to go to the store where they produce gift wrapping.

If the surprise is for an adult, then in addition you can present a bottle of mulled wine - a drink that in many European countries is associated specifically with the Christmas holidays. Such an additional gift will really create a New Year's mood.

Recipe

Those who love to cook can make ginger cookies as a gift with their own hands. To prepare you will need:

How to cook:

1. Mix sugar and flour in a cup.
2. Quench the baking soda with lemon juice and add to the flour.
3. Add ginger, cinnamon and vanillin there. Mix everything well.
4. Beat the egg yolks with a whisk.
5. Cut the butter or margarine into cubes and add to the mixture.
6. Add honey and yolks.
7. Knead the dough with your hands and put it in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
8. Roll out the prepared dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm. Use cookie cutters to cut out cookies.
9. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for no more than 15 minutes.

Ready-made New Year's cookies can be additionally decorated with icing, chocolate or nuts. And enjoy the taste with a cup of good tea.

Usually the next step is what to wrap it in. That is why we have collected a lot of options on how to make packaging for cakes, cookies, pies and muffins with your own hands.

Save this article, it will be useful to you more than once. For example, when you decide to bake something delicious in d, or.

How to pack a piece of cake or pie: packaging diagram

The situation is familiar: there is a cake or pie, and in some magical way it needs to be transported piece by piece to another place. Yes, so that the baked goods do not turn into puree.

It turns out that this problem was solved a long time ago. Simply print out the diagram for the pie box and use it to cut out a piece of cardboard. The diagram is below (dotted line - bend, solid line - cut).

Scheme of a box for packaging a pie or cake in pieces

How to pack cookies: packaging ideas

If we are talking about packaging large flat cookies, then you can simply use the “envelope” technique. Take a square sheet of paper or cardboard and simply fold the corners towards the center, securing with tape.

The second option on how you can pack cookies with your own hands in a stylish and elegant way is to sew a suitable case from cardboard or paper. And although the picture shows cookies packed in newspaper, you should not follow this example - printing ink that is transferred to food does not have the best effect on children's health.

For packaging, choose clean, unbleached paper. You can use thick napkins or baking parchment. Cut out the cover of the required shape, stitch it along the edges using a sewing machine or manually using one of the decorative seams.

If you need to quickly and beautifully pack cookies for a school fair or as a gift, use regular paper bags. You don’t have to buy them; it’s quite possible to make such bags from craft paper or baking parchment.

A diagram of how to make a paper bag for packaging cookies with your own hands.

To avoid crumbling, we suggest packing small, fragile cookies in boxes made of paper cups. To do this, cut off the thick rim of the cups and make eight vertical cuts, as shown in the figure. Then place the cookies inside and fold the “petals” one by one.

How to pack your own muffins and cupcakes

Small muffins can be packed in cardboard egg trays. Stick something fun on top so you can't see the "Eggs" sign, and you've got yourself a stylish muffin container.

You can also use plastic cups to pack muffins. Either place them as you see in the picture, or, if you have cups with a lid, place the cupcake on the lid, and cover the top of the cupcake with the glass itself, like a dome.

If you are faced with the task of delivering a classic-shaped cupcake from point A to point B, we suggest making a cardboard box with your own hands. You will see the diagram below. The main thing is that the glue you will use to glue the box does not come into contact with the baked goods: either replace it with paper clips/thread/glue away from the edges, or make a liner inside the box from tissue paper.

But if you decide to bring pre-cut pieces of cake to the school fair, use these cookie packaging ideas.

Packaging for other products: jelly, popcorn, chips, fruits

If you decide to bring popcorn (unseasoned popcorn is okay for kids - it's just corn), homemade vegetable chips, fruit or jellies, we offer the following packaging options.

Paper or plastic containers, rolled and paper cones, skewers and ice cream sticks to string pieces of fruit onto and make it easy for your child to eat.

How to beautifully pack sandwiches for a school fair

Yes, yes, sandwiches are quite suitable for a school fair. The main thing is that they are fresh and made from quality products. But you can pack them beautifully in two ways: put them in paper bags like the cookie bags we talked about above. Or just wrap it in paper tape and tie it with a rope.

Now you know how to pack cakes, pies, muffins, cookies, fruits and jellies to get them safely to the school fair. Share your baking and food packaging lifehacks in the comments or send us an email to editorial@site