Why give one gift this holiday season when you can give many smaller gifts stuffed into one basket? Lucky for us all, plenty of retailers have their fair share of tasty food gift baskets from which to choose. From baskets stuffed with popcorn and other sweet treats to food baskets that feature our two favorite food groups, wine and cheese, and baskets that’ll take you a flavor tour of some of your favorite places (Italian truffles, anyone?), you’re bound to find the perfect match for friends and family this year.
Food gift baskets aren’t restricted to special occasions, like birthdays or retirement parties. They’re also great for the holidays, especially if you’re not able to gather with long-distance loved ones. Place your order online, and the gift will arrive safely on your friends’ or family members’ doorstep; showing them you care is as easy as that.
Now, all that’s left to do is choose — and we did the work for you. Ahead, check out some of our favorite gift baskets from retailers such as Williams Sonoma, Hickory Farms, and more.
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Loose Leaf Tea Gift Set
This dessert tea gift set not only looks great, but it tastes great, too, with flavors such as Aztec Spice, Caramelized Pear, Vanilla Berry Truffle, and Velvet. It also comes with loose leaf tea filter bags.
Alder Creek Chocolate Extravaganza
This food gift basket is a chocolate lover’s dream. It’s filled with an assortment of gourmet chocolates from some of the world’s most famous chocolatiers including Godiva, Lindt and Ghiradelli.
Olive Oil Tasting Kit
This luxurious olive oil tasting kit features three different olive oils from the Muraglia family in Southern Italy, as well as two colorful dipping bowls for your oil.
Breakfast Bakery Tower
If you think that English muffins are a weird gift to send someone, then you’ve clearly never tasted the majesty that is a Wolferman’s English muffin. They’re thick, chewy, fluffy, and ultra-satisfying as breakfast or a snack, and this gift basket includes three flavors (blueberry, cinnamon raisin, and honey wheat), along with scones, hamantaschen, and two jars of preserves.
Chili Crisp Gift Set
Chili crisp is hands-down our favorite spicy condiment these days, offering up a boost of flavor to everything from plain white rice to tofu, chicken, sub sandwiches, pizza, burritos – basically anything you can get your hands on. This gift set from Snuk offers up four of the best, from old favorite Lao Gan Ma to current hype beast Fly By Jing.
Gourmet Popcorn Snack Sampler
It’s the best time of year for snacking, so a popcorn gift basket that features seven different flavors (including sugar cookie, white cheddar, and cinnamon sugar) along with chocolate truffles, chocolate covered pretzels, and cookies, will definitely be a hit.
Deluxe Cheese Crate with Wine
Because you can’t go wrong with a basket full of five different decadent cheeses, a bottle of award-winning wine (Harry & David’s 2018 Pinot Noir), and all of the fixings (including three-seed crackers, bruschetta spread, mixed nuts, and more) delivered in a gorgeous Paulownia wood crate.
Hickory Farms Happy Holidays Gift Basket
You can’t go wrong with a variety of meats, cheeses, crackers, and spreads. And Hickory Farms’ Happy Holidays Signature Flavors Gift Basket is the creme de la creme of meat and cheese gift baskets: It includes two different sausages, three different cheeses, two mustards, and two types of crackers.
Cake Monkey Vegan Gift Box
Your vegan friends will love you. Los Angeles-based Cake Monkey is a pastry shop that specializes in miniature layer cakes, and this particular gift box includes six vegan cookies (chocolate banana current and chocolate chip), three raisin oat scones with coconut orange glaze, and three strawberry cakewiches.
Truffle Collection Wooden Gift Set
Truffles on truffles on truffles: The Truffleist’s gift set has just that — and more. For $65, gift the Truffle Collection Wooden Gift Set that includes black truffle wildflower honey, black truffle mustard, black truffle infused Greek olive oil, and French grey sea salt infused with, you guessed it, Italian black summer truffles.
Eli Zabar Gift Basket
An institution on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Eli Zabar is an iconic deli and bakery located just steps from Museum Mile. So, what better way to send a taste of New York than with this Goldbelly Gift Basket? It includes Eli’s coffee, Eli’s original granola, Eli’s raspberry jam, and much more.
Rao’s Pasta & Sauce Sampler
Rao’s Homemade is Ina Garten’s favorite brand of store bought pasta sauce, and after tasting it, it’s easy to see why. This gift set includes six different varieties of Rao’s sauce, along with five varieties of their gourmet dried pasta. Any foodie would be happy to get this basket.
Arizona Vineyard
Or, enjoy the taste of the southwest with this Arizona Vineyard gift basket from d’Vine Gourmet. The basket is chock-full of Arizona-made products, including a Prickly Pear Cactus Candy Sampler Box, two bottles of Arizona Angel Wine (red and white), Heavenly Dave’s Spice Rub, Black Pepper Merlot Wine Jelly, and more.
Best of Italy Gift Basket
Last but not least, send the best of Italy with this likely Giada De Laurentiis-approved food basket from Williams Sonoma. The basket’s full of Fusilli, Orecchietti and Linguini, Parmesan cheese, tomato sauce, extra-virgin olive oil, balsamic vinegar and wine-infused salami.
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