More Delicious Last Minute Christmas Gift Baskets

Christmas gift baskets filled with delicious food and drink combinations are sure to please any Christmas gift recipient. You can rest assured that your gift will be used and appreciated. With a multitude of parties, dinners, and get togethers to attend, a Christmas gift basket ready to serve will help alleviate the strain of buying and preparing dishes and hors d'oeuvres.

More fast and easy Christmas gift basket ideas, filled with items available at any local grocery store (or specialty store if you prefer high end gift basket fillers) are detailed here to start you on your way to well received Christmas baskets filled with items friends and family can use and enjoy, even if last minute Christmas shopping is what you are faced with.

Tex Mex Basket
Friends and family who are fans of Mexican munchies will think you are a genius for devising this Christmas gift basket, and the shopping and preparation couldn't be easier.

Instead of a basket, a large, Mexican themed chip bowl can hold the contents for a Tex Mex Christmas gift basket. Fill the bowl or basket with a bag of tortilla chips and a jar of salsa. Add a container of guacamole, and some other tasty accompaniments like sour cream and shredded cheddar cheese.

A favorite Mexican dip recipe with all the needed ingredients is a good idea for this Christmas gift basket, especially so if the receiver has long been after your best Tex Mex dip recipe. If you are at a loss for a good Mexican dip recipe for your Tex Mex Christmas gift basket, include this easy to make, delicious chili dip.

Tex Mex Chili Dip
Ingredients needed for this dip are: cream cheese or sour cream, salsa (optional), canned chili, shredded cheddar cheese.

Spread softened cream cheese or sour cream over the bottom of an oven proof plate or platter. Spoon chili over the cream cheese or sour cream and spread gently without mixing the chili into the cream. Spread salsa over the chili if desired. Top the dip with shredded cheddar cheese. Heat at 375 degrees approximately twenty to thirty minutes, or until the cheddar melts. Serve warm.

Taco Night Basket
A ready to go meal is always welcome in any busy household, perhaps more so during the chaotic Christmas season.

Include a Taco dinner box kit with all the fixings in the Taco Night Christmas gift basket (for safety's sake, you can skip the meat products). Shredded cheddar or a fiesta mix shredded cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, sour cream, chili peppers, and sliced black olives will give your Christmas gift basket receiver all they need for a tasty Mexican meal. Taco Night Christmas gift baskets can be prepared and stored in your refrigerator until delivery. You could even include napkins and disposable dinnerware for a truly stress free holiday meal.

Sunday Breakfast
Give the gift of a warm breakfast at home. Friends and family will welcome all the fixings for a weekend or Christmas morning meal given in a Sunday Breakfast Christmas gift basket.

Line a basket with a nice, Christmassy kitchen towel. Give a box of pancake, waffle, or muffin mix. Add maple syrup and toppings like berry sauces and preserves. Fresh berries and bananas pair well in this Christmas gift basket; bagels and cream cheese, coffee, and juice do too. A nice accessory touch can be added by including a wooden mixing spoon, measuring cups or measuring spoons.

Coffee Basket
There are few adults who don't enjoy a good cup of coffee. For those who do not drink the addictive brew, tea can easily be traded for coffee in this Christmas gift basket.

If you know your Christmas gift basket recipient's favorite brand of coffee, take this opportunity to stock them up for a week or two. Otherwise, fresh coffee beans and an inexpensive grinder are good gift basket fillers, or choose a flavored or gourmet treat ground coffee. A pair of mugs is an obvious coordinate, but most households have plenty, and a new set of travel mugs may be more useful for those always on-the-go.

Round out a coffee themed Christmas gift basket with coffee creamer and sugar or sugar substitute (depending on the family's tastes). Powdered creamers require no refrigeration, and flavored creamers and syrups are good for a treat. Include a bit of a snack or breakfast on the go by putting coffee cakes and muffins into coffee Christmas gift baskets.

Wine and Chocolate Basket
With a month full of hectic, crowded shopping trips, parties, visiting family, midnight wrapping sessions, not to mention school and work, who couldn't use a nice glass of wine paired with chocolate treats? Wine and chocolate Christmas gift baskets give the gift of a little relaxation amidst Christmas chaos.

All you really need to put in this basket is a bottle or two of good red wine, and some good quality chocolates or truffles to go with it. A nice set of glasses is a useful additional accompaniment.

What wine to choose? Wine store or vineyard staff can help you identify a good wine to pair with chocolate, but generally speaking, you want a rich, red wine. Kevin Zraly, author of Windows On The World Complete Wine Course (2006, Sterling Publishing Co., NY) recommends Port wine as the ideal partner for dark chocolate, Madeira for milk chocolate. Ask at a local wine seller for one of these, or a similar red wine that will pair well.

Whether you choose to make a Christmas gift basket filled complete with all the fixings for a Mexican snack, a family meal, or a relaxing indulgence and an evening at home, all who receive your Christmas gift basket will appreciate the thought and effort that went into your gift basket choice. You will have saved yourself both time and money, while presenting a well received and much appreciated, useful Christmas gift you can feel good about giving.Still looking for homemade gift and Christmas gift basket ideas? Read on at AssociatedContent.com.