Jar mixes - would you want to receive or would you think wtf?

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I was thinking of doing muffin or brownie jar mixes where you have to add an egg or candy cane hot choc in a jar. Be honest if you would hate something like this!

Oats and dried fruit in brownies?
Just mix?

Don't you need to whisk a tonne of egg whites seperately and fold them in gently?

It smacks of being cheap. Like something you'd find on a tombola at the school raffle.
Not for me.

How can you give someone flour in a jar and expect them to be pleased? Just because it has a fancy ribbon and a twee label attached doesn't make it 'nice'. It's still flour in a jar.

Yes i think this pretty much sums it up!

Well I may be in the minority here but I'd quite like it, and I'd use it. But I don't normally do much baking, with 2 small children to look after I just never seem to find the time for it. Altnough I have been baking a little bit more recently, with my 4 year old ds who loves it. So I would think it was a lovely present, and would definitely use it with my ds. I think its a nice present for kids, teenagers, or people who don't bake much themselves but would like to.
I think it would be nice to put the actual recipe in with it too, so that if the recipient likes it they can recreate it themselves.

That's not even a brownie recipe you are planning on using there OP I've made Brownies loads of different ways and I have never seen oats or dried fruit in them.

Brownies have very little flour and would use lots of good quality dark chocolate, (not just some random cheap choc chips) chopped nuts lot of butter and lots of with lots of eggs. So what you are actually giving them in the jar doesn't even cover half the expense of making them.

If you really want to do something like this I don't think you could go wrong with some Werthers vodka. And you can get away with half bottles per person to keep the cost down. Ideally you should do it yourself, but a 'kit' of the vodka, the Werthers and the instructions would suffice.

Surely the only people who want brownie mix in a jar are ten year old girls? And the thought of a cheap mug full of cocoa and reconstituted milk powder sounds vile.

I would like it! You can send them all to me!

My kids would love it. I would hate it

I saw a Yorkshire Pudding ingredients in a jar last week. just add milk and egg, so a pretty jar with flour in for £8

Having said that I am making Sloe Gin for a couple of mates.

Yep, I'd like it too.
I've seen some,lovely ones in nice Kilmer jars with chocolate too and all needed to add was butter and milk.

I would appreciate the gesture as it's clear thought had gone into it and I was bought up to be grateful I enjoy baking though so it would depend on the quality of the recipe and ingredients as to the level of my thrilledness.

OTOH I think they would be a great idea for kids who enjoy baking. DS is 11 and starting to branch out into independent baking and would probably love the opportunity to try out something new but without the hassle of all that boring weighing :o

I would like home made sloe gin, marmalade, jam, chutney though

i would hate it. sorry

Last year I used this hot chocolate recipe, which is luxe. You have to add your own milk which worked out great because I have a vegan friend. I only gave it to close friends as a token gift in old jam jars.

And then I made a tripe batch for myself and used it all winter. Yum!

Not keen. Seems strange to give the raw ingredients like that, even thought they're prettily presented. Some people would worry about best-before dates of the ingredients.

Very happy to receive anything home-made for eating/drinking though.

I keep getting the hot chocolate / pretty cup gifts. Despite saying on many, many, many occasions I don't like hot chocolate. At all. Not 'don't mind it now and again'. Loathe it.

I don't like brownies either (don't like chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream etc) so I'm afraid either of these would be wasted on me.

AND it's really not that cheap either....I priced it up once, like a big saddo, but really it's not that nice, not that cheap and seemingly no one likes them

If you have a foodie to buy for then spend the money on a fancy ingredient, herb or spice, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, lovely chocolate.

I think it's pretty much all been said really. I hate them and associate them with school tombolas.

However, I made some preserved lemons in a lovely jar for my dsis. She loves cooking tagines, I think she liked them. I'm not sure now!

I love the deconstructed pack of fish fingers comment.

I think there is a world of difference between making preserved lemons for a dyed-in-the-wool tagine maker, and putting some flour, sugar, oats and asda smart price chocolate in a jar and giving to all friends and family.

Thanks Bimbly, that's what I thought. Had a moment of self doubt.

I have never had Brownies with oats in. They'd taste more like flapjacks, wouldn't they?

I'd chuck it I'm afraid.

I don't like home made food gifts.

My friend gave me a box of homemade chocolates last years and there were thumb prints all over them.

Yuk 200. Thumbprint chocolate!

I thought the phase was dying out but keep seeing threads pop up re gifting jars of stuff and that awful sweetie vodka.

I wouldn't like it because I think presents should be chosen to suit the receiver. I can't think of a single friend whose most ideal present for about £5 would be a jar of brownie mix or hot chocolate. It certainly wouldn't be something that would suit me.
I find it a bit thoughtless tbh.