WE’RE GIFTED WITH GORGEOUS GIFTS FOR EVERY FOOD LOVER
When it comes to gift-giving, we love a classic gift basket, a carefully curated collection of themed items like fruit, chocolates, baked goods, and savory snacks. Forget any ideas you may have about your grandparents’ gift baskets brimming with boring cheese and crackers, ubiquitous fruits, and mediocre munchies.
Modern gift baskets come in all shapes and sizes, from a beautiful woven basket to a gorgeous box to creative containers like crates and tins. They are packed with exclusive snacks, premium treats, and seldom-seen specialty items. These gorgeous gourmet gifts can be scaled to fit any budget. Plus, these gifts are easy to assemble, customizable, and fun.
The idea of arranging items into a basket and gifting it dates to ancient times. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans exchanged gift baskets with fruits and grains. Gift baskets leveled up with luxury goods during Medieval times. Holiday food gifts packed in baskets made their way to the US in the 19th century.
Do people still give gift baskets? They sure do! While it may seem old fashioned, gift baskets are popular ways to send food love. From fruit baskets to Easter baskets to Christmas hampers, get inspired with the best food gift baskets, many on Goldbelly’s Top 100 Gifts list.
Kossar’s Pastrami Queen NYC Weekender Box
Take a literal bite out of the Big Apple with Kossar’s x Pastrami Queen Weekender Box. This box combines the fresh baked goods from Kossar’s, the oldest bialy bakery in the US, with juicy, tender, smoky pastrami from Pastrami Queen, which has been hand-carving pastrami since 1956. The Box includes 6 bagels or bialys, a choice of cream cheese or smoked fish salad, smoked salmon, and black & white cookies from Kossar’s and a pastrami kit with 1 lb. of sliced pastrami, unseeded rye bread, pickles, and mustard from Pastrami Queen.
Assorted Rugelach Gift Tin (Kosher)
Cure homesickness or indulge the New York obsessed with 2nd Avenue Deli’s Assorted Rugelach Gift Tin. Founded by Abe Lebewohl in 1954, 2nd Avenue Deli is the quintessential New York Jewish deli.
This decorative tin is packed with freshly baked bite-size rugelach, Jewish butter cookies filled with chocolate or cinnamon. These cookies are Certified Kosher, and each tin includes 24 cookies.
Nancy Silverton’s Favorite Gelato Gift Box
Your family and friends will definitely wanna spoon when they get their hands on Nancy Silverton’s Favorite Gelato Gift Box. James Beard Award-winning chef Nancy Silverton opened Nancy’s Fancy in Los Angeles in 2015, and gelato lovers have been raving about her classic and creative flavors ever since. The Gift Box includes 9 4-oz. individual servings of Silverton’s favorite artisanal gelato and sorbetto flavors like Meyer Lemon Torrone, Passion Fruit, and Roasted Banana with Bourbon & Pecan Praline.
Hackleback Caviar Gift Set
Looking for a luxe gift for less? Russ & Daughters’ Hackleback Caviar Gift Set is the perfect gift. The New York City delicatessen sources its caviar from the Mississippi River Valley. Hackleback Caviar’s dark beads have a mild, buttery flavor. This gift set includes a tin of American sturgeon caviar, a mother of pearl soon, Crème Fraiche, Blini, and a small insulated tote bag.
Model Bakery Weekender Box
Gift your breakfast bestie English muffins that are mmmemorable. Founded in Napa Valley, California, in 1984 by Karen Mitchell and her daughter Sarah, Model Bakery makes the world’s best English muffins — just ask Oprah, who named them one of her Favorite Things” two years in a row. Each 4 oz. English muffin is made with focaccia-style dough that is dusted with cornmeal and then griddle-fried in clarified butter until golden brown on both sides. The Box features 6 of Model Bakery’s airy English muffins, 1 jar of house-made organic strawberry jam, 1 lb. of house-made granola, 2 Chocolate Rad, 2 Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip, and 2 Chocolate Chip Walnut cookies, and Model Bakery Coffee Blend Beans.
Chef Kelly Fields’ Southern Brunch Weekender Box
Impress your favorite food lovers with James Beard Award-winning chef Kelly Fields’ Southern treats and charm in the form of buttery biscuits. Shipping straight from New Orleans, Chef Kelly Fields’ Southern Brunch Weekender Box includes 8 ready-to-bake buttermilk biscuits plus all the fixin’s, including 1 lb. of creamy pimento cheese, 8 oz. honey butter, 8 oz. homemade raspberry jam, and 1 qt. spicy Bloody Mary mix.
Sukhadia’s Wooden Treasure Chest Sampler
Take your taste buds on a journey to India with Sukhadia’s. Piyush Sukhadia and his wife, Bindu, have brought their 19th century family recipes to their eponymous South Plainfield, New Jersey, Indian restaurant. Sukhadia’s hand-made Indian sweets are made with authentic ingredients like raw nuts and Indian spices.
The Sampler includes 12 oz. of black pepper cashews and 12 pieces of colorful mithai (Indian sweets), including Almond Pista Burfee made with pistachios, condensed milk, refined sugar, honey, glucose, and saffron, Bombay Badami Halwa flavored with cardamom and dry nuts, and Almond Puri, flourless almond cookies.
Sugar Plum’s Bar Snack Sampler Gift Box
Gift your favorite snacker munchies from Sugar Plum. Since 1995, Frann Edley’s Sugar Plum has been making the world sweeter. The Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, chocolatier makes the most delicious chocolate. The Gift Box is a vintage case packed with salty snacks like pistachios and cashews and sweet nibbles like Cinnamon Butter Almonds and Bourbon Crunch Blend.
Shortbread Society’s Best Seller Shortbread – Choose Your Own
Your sweetie will love Shortbread Society’s Best Seller Shortbread. Join Jersey City, New Jersey’s Shortbread Society for the ultimate buttery shortbread. The Best Seller includes a choice of 2 or 3 Original Granny Pearl’s shortbread and gluten-free shortbread trays in flavors like Peanut Butter Cup with layers of milk chocolate ganache and peanut butter graham cracker filling, Cherry Bakewell with layers of raspberry and almond pie filling with Maraschino cherries, almond shortbread, and almond glaze, and Birthday Baby Buttercream with rainbow sprinkled shortbread topped with classic pink almond buttercream.
Maman’s Cookie Best Seller Gift Box
Bake your besties’ days with Maman’s cookies. Since 2014, Maman has become a super trendy collection of bakery-cafes in New York, New York. Founded by Benjamin Sormonte and Elisa Marshall, Maman is famous for its baked goods.The Cookie Best Seller Gift Box includes 4 of Maman’s signature Nutty Chocolate Chip Cookies plus 8 assorted seasonal cookies like Oatmeal Pumpkin Spice and Vegan Chai Spice.
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