45 Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas

Homemade Pancake Mix Jars are a fun way to gift a delicious and healthy breakfast recipe. Pair it with a jug of real maple syrup, a cute batter bowl, and/or a wooden spoon or a nice spatula set.

I love Weck Jars to use for packaging up this Homemade Pancake Mix! (The jars in the photo are unfortunately no longer available).

Homemade BBQ Chicken Rub features a mix of brown sugar, salt, pepper, garlic powder, cumin, chili powder, and smoked paprika for a flavorful homemade spice rub.

I love that this BBQ Chicken Rub stores well in a jar so that you can make a large batch ahead of time and use it throughout the year. It makes a great homemade gift for the BBQ lover in your life. Pair it with my favorite Wireless Remote Digital Thermometer or an Instant Read Thermometer - both are great for precision BBQing!

Homemade Southwestern Pork Rub features a mix of brown sugar, garlic powder, oregano, chili powder, cumin, pepper, smoked paprika, onion powder, salt and pepper for a flavorful spice rub.

I love that this Homemade Southwestern Pork Rub well in a jar so that you can make a large batch ahead of time and use it throughout the year. It makes a great homemade gift for the BBQ lover in your life.

Pair it with my favorite Wireless Remote Digital Thermometer or an Instant Read Thermometer - both are great for precision BBQing! And maybe include a copy of The Best Smoked Pulled Pork recipe, which uses this rub!

People love this bulk recipe for Spicy Taco Seasoning! It is so great to have on hand so you can have it on hand for any needed Mexican food craving!

Pair this Spicy Taco Seasoning with a pair of Margarita glasses for a fun Mexican-themed Christmas gift for someone who loves Taco Tuesday. In fact, check out this Taco Tuesday cookbook!

Add this recipe for homemade garlic herb salt to your spice cabinet and you'll never need to purchase garlic herb salt from the grocery store again. Plus, homemade spice blends are super easy to customize exactly how you like!

Make a small jar of this Homemade Garlic Herb Salt and gift it along side small jars of the BBQ Chicken Rub Southwestern Pork Rub, and Spicy Taco Seasonings for a fun spice themed gift set.

Silky smooth caramel sauce is so easy to make at home. It is over the tope good thanks to the addition of a little bit of vanilla and bourbon, and perfect for homemade gifting.

This recipe is has really simple ingredients: sugar, butter, cream, vanilla extract, bourbon, and salt. That’s it! One of the kids that mentioned to me this recipe was so good, we should give it to all our neighbors for Christmas this year.

I love Weck Jars to use for packaging up this Homemade Caramel Sauce with Vanilla and Bourbon.

Fresh pressed apple cider, tart pomegranate juice, and Tempranillo pair with mulling spices and fresh fruit to create a fall-inspired cocktail, perfect for sipping during this autumn and winter season.

Make this Spiced Pomegranate Mulled Wine, then fill a couple of jars with it (or one large one), tie a bow around the top, and don’t forget to include a handwritten copy of the recipe. Perfect for a wine loving friend or neighbor!

This easy roasted salsa verde takes just a few minutes to prep once you've roasted the veggies. It is perfect for homemade green enchilada sauce, smothered burritos, or simply as a green salsa to serve with chips.

Browse through these Chips and Dips bowl sets if you want to include a serving bowl with your salsa.

This Easy Restaurant Style Salsa is so good and so easy to make! Gift this alone, or with the Easy Roasted Salsa Verde. Pairing Red and Green Salsas together would make a fun homemade Christmas gift idea. Maybe include a bag of your favorite tortilla chips, too!

Homemade Chili Garlic Oil is incredibly easy to make and a simple way to enhance the flavors of any dish. It is great used as a dipping oil for artisan bread, added to pasta dishes, drizzled in soups, sauces, or on pizza. Your creativity is the only limiter when it comes to using this Chili Garlic Oil.

This Homemade Chili Garlic Oil would be great gifted along side a fresh loaf of this Rustic Rosemary Garlic Bread for gifting!

These Milk Chocolate Caramel Crunch Bars are like Homemade 100 Grand Bars, but even better! Chewy, homemade, salted caramel is covered crispy milk chocolate. They make a great addition to your holiday candy making plans!

Chocolate Covered Vanilla Fleur de Sel Caramels make an excellent homemade candy during the Christmas holidays. In my opinion, caramels are always classic Christmas candy and we end up making several batches every year.

You'll want to make sure you have an Instant Read Candy Thermometer before you start making this recipe. These silicone candy molds are great if you want perfectly shaped caramels.

Spicy black pepper pairs perfectly with salty, savory bacon and sweet, golden brown sugar. Black Pepper Candied Bacon is a super easy treat to make this holiday season for friends and family, and perfect for the bacon lover in your life. Maybe even for Santa! Plus, it is super easy to make!

Make sure you use thick cut bacon for best results when making this recipe. There are so many cute Christmas candy packaging options for this Black Pepper Candied Bacon.

This Pumpkin Seed Brittle is just like your classic homemade brittle recipe, but without nuts. Peanut-Free Brittle is a great option for those who have nut or peanut allergies. This Peanut-Less Brittle still has that nutty taste that classic homemade peanut brittle has, so you won't even miss the nuts!

Dark Chocolate Turtle Pretzel Bark is a fun treat for kids to help make for a teacher gift. Classic Pecan Christmas Turtles meet Dark Chocolate Bark with the crunchy, salty addition of mini pretzels for a delicious sweet and salty Christmas candy treat.

Make sure you check out my post on How to Temper Chocolate for best results when making this recipe. You'll want to make sure you have an Instant Read Candy Thermometer before you start making this recipe and a double boiler is helpful, too. Here's a link to the Caramel Baking Bits that I used.

Bourbon Maple Salted Caramels are a perfect holiday gift for anyone who craves sweet and salty. Traditional salted caramels are enhanced with the flavors of bourbon, maple syrup, and vanilla beans. YUM!

You could make a special caramel gift box with these, the fleur de sel caramels, and the gingerbread caramels (all the recipes are linked in this list!).

Don't forget the sea salt flakes for sprinkling on top!

Do you know someone who loves chocolate paired with peppermint? Dark Chocolate pairs white chocolate, milk chocolate chips, marshmallows, and mini candy canes in this Candy Cane Hot Cocoa Bark for a fun holiday treat.

You'll need some mini candy canes and crushed peppermint candy. Or, you can make your own crushed peppermint candy by placing peppermints or candy canes in a sealed bag and pounding them with a meat mallet.

You can never go wrong with another recipe for chocolate bark. Try this Bittersweet Chocolate Swirl Fruit and Nut Bark for a unique take! Bittersweet chocolate, white chocolate, almonds, raspberries, strawberries, pumpkin and chia seeds combine for a delectable and colorful holiday treat.

To learn how to temper chocolate, take a look at my post on How to Temper Chocolate for best results when making this recipe. Before you start making this recipe, have your Instant Read Candy Thermometer ready. A double boiler is helpful, too, for tempering the chocolate.

You can find freeze dried strawberry slices, freeze dried raspberries, and the raw pumpkin seeds all on Amazon.

You can easily flavor homemade marshmallows by using freeze dried raspberries. These Raspberry Vanilla Bean Marshmallows would be great gifted with hot chocolate mix for a raspberry hot cocoa treat. You can cut them out in snowflake shapes with a small snowflake cooking cutter or cut them in rectangles.

Homemade Chocolate Dipped Candy Cane Marshmallows are a fun holiday treat to make. Pair a bag of these goodies with a fun Christmas mug or hot cocoa mix for an inexpensive (and yummy) holiday gift.

I love this Christmas Movies Watching Mug, my kids would crack up at this humorous Christmas Mug, and these stacking snowman mugs are so cute!

I love salted caramels and gingerbread cookies. Gingerbread Caramels combine those two iconic holiday flavors for a super chewy, salty, sweet treat! and are a fun twist on a classic caramel recipe. Caramel pairs awesomely with hints of molasses and ginger.

Make sure that you have an Instant Read Candy Thermometer for making this recipe before you get started. To make perfectly shaped caramels, try these silicone candy molds.

When you use high-quality dark chocolate, at least 60% cacao, this recipe for Chocolate Dipped Nuts is a healthy and delicious way to survive sweet cravings.

Mocha Roasted Almonds are an incredibly easy snack to make that will help you satisfy your sweet tooth without ransacking your healthy snacking goals. They also make great homemade holiday gifts and Christmas Candies.

Made with just 8 simple ingredients, these Cinnamon Vanilla Glazed Walnuts are a great easy recipe to add to your holiday treat making list!

These Christmas Kraft Paper Bags are adorable for packaging candied nuts in for gifting.

Sweet and Spicy Rosemary Bar Nuts make a great savory, salty, crunchy snack that is simple to make!

These pair great alongside the Cinnamon Vanilla Glazed Walnuts. There are several other candied or flavored roasted nut ideas on this list that would be great for pairing together if you'd like to assemble a Christmas tin for a homemade roasted nut gift set.

Salted Vanilla Maple Nut and Seed Clusters make a delicious and heart-healthy snack. They taste indulgent but are anything but since they’re packed with all sorts of heart-healthy seeds and nuts. Salted Vanilla Maple Nut and Seed Clusters make a fun addition to any candy and nut gift box.

These Almond Butter Cookies are the tastiest I’ve tried and make a great addition to your regular cooking baking. They’re the perfect alternative if you have a peanut allergy!

Rather than using the fork tines to make the classic cross hatch pattern on top of the cookies, you can make them extra fancy with these Christmas Cookie Stamps. Really, anything that will slightly flatten the cookie dough and make an interesting pattern on top!

If you like cherry and chocolate, you should definitely add these Chocolate Cherry Cordial Thumbprint Cookies to your Christmas baking list! This recipe uses these tasty Holiday Hershey's Kisses Milk Chocolate with Cherry Cordial Crème.

These Christmas Treat Boxes are adorable for gifting these cookies! You can place each cookie in a candy cane striped cupcake liner for extra cuteness.

Gingersnaps are one favorite Christmas cookie recipe that has been a tradition in my family since childhood. These Caramel Pecan Gingersnap Thumbprints are a twist on the old classic Gingersnap recipe: the center is pressed a pecan half and a pool of caramel. Then, melted chocolate is drizzled on top.

Tip: for the perfect drizzle, I like to put the melted chocolate into these squeeze bottles.

Skip the process of rolling dough and cutting cookies out with these Candy Cane Crunch Funfetti Sugar Cookie Bars  that taste just like sugar cookies. They're super festive with red and green funfetti and crunch up candy cane sprinkled on top.

You'll need red and green jimmies (sprinkles) to make the funfetti part of these sugar cookie bars. I also like to make sure I have parchment paper on hand for lining baking pans.

These Swedish Crescent Cookies are a classic Christmas cookie. They're perfect for the Holidays and easy to make. You cane make them round if you'd like them to look like snowballs, or shape them into these fun crescent shapes.

Classic chocolate chip cookies get a make over. These White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake Cookies feature cream cheese in the batter, bits of raspberry jammy goodness, and melty chunks of white chocolate. They’re the perfect spring cookie!

Have you ever tried Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies? For a fun, unique twist on gingerbread cut out cookies, try these Chocolate Gingerbread Cookies!

These spicy gingerbread cookies have just a hint of chocolate. They’re so rich in flavor, but not too rich or different that your kids or traditional gingerbread lovers won’t like them.

This Silicone Pastry Mat is perfect for making cut out cookies and keeping your counters clean! You don't have to just make gingerbread men shaped cookies, there are TONS of Christmas Cookie Cutter Shapes out there!

Pistachio Orange Crescent Cookies combine orange zest and pistachios to switch things up a bit from the traditional classic Christmas Crescent Cookie recipe. Pistachios are my absolute favorite nut!

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies get a make over with white chocolate, coconut, macadamia nuts, and lemon. These White Chocolate Lemon Coconut Cookies are the perfect spring and summer cookie with a little tropical twist

If you’re looking for a fun family Christmas craft that can also serve as a homemade gift, Salt Dough Ornaments are the sweetest!

You can make them with hardly any effort and the kids will have a blast. Your limitations are only set by the cookie cutters you own.

If you want to take it one step further, You can even personalize the ornaments for the recipient! Personalization is super easy – just take some mini ABC cookie cutters and stamp the middle with the recipient’s last name initial.

Homemade bookmarks make fun crafts for kids and also super cute gifts for them to pass out to friends at school; check out these 8 Cute DIY Bookmark Ideas.

This is a great snow-day craft idea to get kids involved in the gift making process.

Print out this Christmas Book Bingo, laminate it, and gift it with a bag of your favorite small Christmas candies (to serve as bingo markers) and one of your family’s favorite Christmas books.

My kids always loved to use Hershey Kisses for their bingo markers - especially the Candy Cane Hershey Kisses. Check out these posts for tons of book recommendations: Four Favorite Winter Picture Books, Picture Books About Snow, and Fun Christmas Picture Books.

Instead of throwing out broken bits of crayon, learn How to Make Recycled Crayons and try melting down your scraps and reshaping them into something new.

For Christmas themed crayons, look for silicone molds that are Christmas Tree or snowflake shaped. Focus on color combos of blues, whites, silvers, and golds or reds and greens.

This is super cute for kiddos to make for their school friends, or that grown up that you know loves to color in their adult coloring book!

These DIY Moisturizing Bath Bombs might be small, but they pack a powerful punch thanks to each of the ingredients. For perfectly shaped bath bombs, try using these bath bomb molds.

They only contain 4 ingredients and are incredibly simple to make. Add essential oils to add an aromatherapy aspect. Paired with a book, this makes a great “pamper yourself” gift for someone in your life. Add a bath pillow or a bath tray for a little extra pampering!

This Rosemary Mint Sugar Scrub is perfect for homemade gifting.
It exfoliates and moisturizes dry winter skin while offering a pleasant and invigorating aroma to a tired body in the morning.

Featuring lemon, oil, sugar and salt, this All-Natural Moisturizing Kitchen Hand Scrub is a simple DIY gift to prepare – perfect for the holiday season.

Plenty of people will love this pampering item. For something extra special, pair it with a mani/pedi gift card or some fun new nail polish colors.

This DIY Rosemary Hot Oil Hair Treatment is a great way to soothe dry scalp and dandruff, promote healthy hair growth, add shine, and seal moisture into your hair.

This hot oil hair treatment makes a nice homemade gift idea for someone who loves all-natural beauty products

This recipe for Lavender Eucalyptus Green Tea Detox Bath Salts features a mixture of Epsom Salts, Baking Soda, Green Tea, Vitamin E oil, Eucalyptus Essential Oil and Lavender Essential Oil. Each ingredient has properties to help to leave you feeling refreshed and relaxed.

Add a bath pillow or a bath tray for a little extra pampering!

Vanilla Lavender Sugar Scrub features vanilla scented sugar and dried lavender buds. Lavender is so relaxing, and many of us are often stressed out this time of year that I thought it would make for a pleasant gift.