Over 30 Holiday Bread Recipes for Gifts (2024)

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How to give homemade bread as a gift? ›

Tie bread with long piece of twine, like you'd do with a ribbon on a christmas gift. Put a candied orange and rosemary, or other florals into the middle of the twine where it is tied. Add accompaniments to basket, and use linens to nestle everything. Decorate with seasonal items like ornaments, flowers, and greens.

Any bread recipe that you are already comfortable baking would make a wonderful gift! Here are some recipe suggestions from my blog if you'd like more ideas: Cranberry Walnut Sourdough Bread. Sourdough Soft Pretzels (salted or coated with cinnamon sugar)

From cheeses, jams, preserves and nut butters you can create your own gift set or treat yourself to a perfect lunch.

Several tasty ingredients like honey, olives and even bananas are used regularly to ramp up the classic bread recipe's flavor. Not only are these ingredients delicious, but when chosen wisely, they can also boost your bread's nutritional value.

Paper is perfect to wrap your sourdough loaves in - it's natural and gives a rustic effect. It also allows your sourdough bread to breathe. You could tie your paper bread parcel with twine for a little extra flourish.

With your loaf still seam-side down and the edges folded (more or less) inward, place your bread on a length of twine. The twine will need to be long enough to wrap around the short side and the long side of your bread with several inches left over to tie a bow.

Bread is also a common housewarming gift. It represents sustenance, nourishment, and hope for a plentiful and prosperous life in the new home. It is often given in the form of a loaf or a basket of bread and is usually accompanied by a wish for good health and happiness.

In a nutshell, if you're buying basic, cheap sandwich bread, it's probably cheaper than you can make it at home. But if you compare two loaves similar to what you could make at home — one made with high-quality ingredients as opposed to one made with lesser quality ingredients — home baking becomes much cheaper.

Seriously though, I gift fresh bread in either a canvas bread bag (great for sourdough boules) or in paper/plastic bread sleeves when I make baguettes. The canvas bags I usually ask for back, depending on the person. So for a machine Loaf, the canvas bag MIGHT work, depending on relative sizes of Loaf and bag.

How do you serve bread at a party? ›

Things like slices, small loaves or breadsticks can be served in quaint pails for a unique addition to the table. Otherwise, try serving multiple types of bread at once with a multi-cone basket, offering variety and choice to your guests.

Send off tasty slice-and-bake cookies in style. First, roll them in parchment or waxed paper and then roll crepe paper on top for a pretty display. Use tissue paper, gift wrap or paper doilies to embellish the outside of the roll and label baking instructions with a dazzling gold Sharpie marker.

Butter and especially stronger oils, such as walnut, can also add flavor to bread. Dry milk powder adds flavor to bread and can soften its texture, as in the case of this basic white sourdough. Add it to dough with the flour.

Paper bags are more breathable than plastic, which is great for brioche rolls, soft buns, and other breads with added fat. But too much air will make the bread go stale quickly. Consider keeping these bags airtight as best you can. Then there's the bread box: it balances moisture and air circulation.

Bread boxes, if you have one, work great, but you can also use wax paper, a beeswax and linen bag, or even a dishcloth. A clean dish towel is one of Hartzheim's favorite options. "Plastic bags help keep the crumb (the interior of the loaf) soft but also make the crust soft.