Whipping up delicious edible gifts for any occasion is a snap with this fun cookbook and packaging guide. From easy-to-follow recipes to creative presentation ideas, you'll find everything you need to make special, personal gifts that taste great and look terrific. Step-by-step, professional food presenter and recipe developer Andrea Swenson shows you how to whip up tasteful delights for every holiday and occasion, including:

• Scrumptious chocolate candies, cakes and sauces
• Delicious cookies of every description
• Savory sauces and condiments
• Dreamy cakes, pies breads, scones and pretzels
• Edible and non-edible wrappings for your food gifts

Each chapter of Gifts From the Kitchen For Dummies gives you everything you need to get through the 75 recipes featured--from the basics of kitchen craft to more complicated preparation techniques. Here's just a small sampling of the eye-popping, mouthwatering treats you'll learn to make:

• Cranberry-walnut monkey bread, pineapple-ginger scones and prosciutto-fig quick bread and
• Pecan-cream pound cake and buttermilk-streusel coffee cake
• Chocolate truffles, piña colada candies and candy sushi
• Banana-mango chutney, grainy apricot mustard and scallion butter
• Almond and date mandlebrot, eggnog cookies, crispy cappuccino froths
• Strawberry-pineapple jam, sweet onion marmalade and pear-cranberry compote
• Almond paste "wrapping paper," chocolate nest, pastillage containers
• Barbecue almonds, red pepper humus, South-of-Somewhere Salsa
• Lemon-lime icebox pie, plum-almond tart, orange cannoli pie

Expressive your love and delight your friends and family with the tasty, attractive, homemade treats you'll find in Gifts From the Kitchen For Dummies.