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!

Ie it's all about what the giver can make cheaply, rather than what the receiver might like.

And let's face it, Aldi and Lidl offer loads of tasty, edible gifts which are probably as cheap or cheaper than this flour in a jar business.

Oh I'll change my answer slightly - I'd be quite happy to get a jar or mug with hot chocolate ingredients, if there's an impressively naice selection of bits to go with it, so a handful of good marshmallows, some good coffee bean chocolates, maybe a v. naice chocolate truffle and two or three other nice looking bits.

I'd still rather you didn't feel obliged to give me a gift, but that one would at least be used, and it would be something I wouldn't normally do for myself as I wouldn't buy all the extras just to make a hot chocolate.

Aldi has mince pies for £1.79, macaroons for £2.99, lebkuchen for £2.99, panforte for £2.99, camembert for £2.79. Why the jars and hot chocolate mix? WHY, WHY, WHY?!

I am making homemade baileys for my mum and sisters this year- although I wasn't sure if they'd want it so asked "would anyone like this?" And they all said "Ooh yes please " so that went down well. But there are lots of people I know who I wouldn't dream of giving it to (thinking Mil). So I think it is very important to match this sort of gift to the person.

OP, who are you thinking of making it for?

Is it worth while financially making homemade Baileys when you can buy it for a tenner in the supermarket. You can buy duplicates for £6 or so in Lidl, too.

thornrose I think making your own preserves or chocolates or whatever is lovely, and totally different to filling and jam jar with some flour and stuff in a jar and expecting them to make it themselves!

Werther's Vodka would be going straight down the plughole here, sorry, I can't think of many things I'd less rather have for Christmas. Same for homemade Baileys but I don't like the real thing either, at least you can donate that to a raffle though.

Its the same principle as hampers.

Givers think of a 'theme' and then fill a box with random crap that fits their 'theme' but should never be given as gifts.

The gift would perhaps suit a child who's old enough to operate an oven/follow written instructions, but young enough still to find baking fun.

Homemade gifts are generally regarded as a bit naff now. However, if they're nicely done snd they suit the recipient's taste - great. Bulk batches of fudge/vodka/gin/brownies are as thoughtless as the Boots 3-for-2 sets.

Bimbly do you mean what do you do with them as an ingredient? Lavender sugar is nice in biscuits; vanilla sugar is great for loads of things - sprinkling on cookies or baking with, using in puddings, or just in coffee or on porridge.

I did mean that. Thanks Toddlerwrangling, much appreciated.

Sorry, I was unnecessarily rude about the Werther's Vodka and homemade Baileys there. They wouldn't be to my taste but that's not to say they are bad gifts for other people.

mammuzzamia DS wouldn't be helping me.

It's a no bake brownie recipe so not much work involved. I was going to include a mini pot of honey and peanut butter so no need to get extra ingredients.

litebite.in/no-bake-healthy-chocolate-brownie/

scarlets No oven to operate so what from what age would it be appropiate for?

Bimblywibble I could do the hot choc mix without the milk powder with instructions to just add milk/cream?

mammuzzamia would all these be out? fudge, toffee, macaroons, mince pies, shortbread, cookies, muffins, truffles, jam, marmalades or chutney? I would use good quality ingredients, not cheap stuff.

Or m.aprettylifeinthesuburbs.com/qd34703/articles/95145/No-Bake-Mini-Grasshopper-Pies

www.babble.com/best-recipes/low-fat-no-bake-oreo-cheesecakes-in-a-jar/

www.womansday.com/food-recipes/food-drinks/g1127/no-bake-cheesecake-recipe/

I received one and I was a little wtf at first, but then about a month later was craving cookies, remembered it and I loved the present then. I'd love to have another gift like that

Have you tasted both these items and are they so delicious they beat normal chocolate brownies and normal, say cadbury, drinking choc?

I'm sorry, but eating raw oats mixed with peanut butter, honey and raw cocoa just doesn't sound like much of a treat, especially when you've had to make them yourself.

What is your audience here - are they to (or from) children, teachers, all your relatives?

I agree bimbly

It's not saying - here is a lovely decadent gift to spoil you. Instead it's like here, have a brownie you make yourself. But, actually, they're quite bad for you so it's a not very nice raw one.

I think they are yummy.

The cooking recipe I use is

best quality dark chocolate
caster sugar
plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
chopped walnuts
marshmallows

Them obviously eggs would have to be added.

Sorry - totally confused

The recipe you set out yesterday included oats, cocoa powder and chocolate chips (which are cheap chocolate)

Plus people were also to get honey and/or peanut butter.

But then today the recipe is different. What one are you using?

I'm also confused and ducking out.

That recipe sounds like a pan in the arse. Grinding up oats? Dry roasting almonds? Bollocks to that. That is not a present.
And even the woman's own guinea pigs asked her to leave out the oats!

pan pain.

Although anyone who suggested making it might receive a pan in the arse....

My dd want the lakeland " cake in a mug" for Christmas.

The previous recipe was an idea so the recipient would not have the bother of cooking. No one seemed to like that idea so then I posted the recipe I used for more mainstream brownies.