Want to try your hand at making some homemade edible gifts this year? Or maybe you’re an old hand looking for new ideas for festive fun. Look no further, here are nearly fifty sweet and savoury vegan and vegetarian recipes for Christmas and beyond. It’s an advent extravaganza.

You’ll find plenty of ideas for cookies, sweets and chocolates as well as chutneys and other preserves. But there’s also a few surprises and some lovely gift ideas you might not have thought of.
You could make one recipe a day until your trousers burst. Or maybe share the love and treat your friends and family. They are meant to be gifts after all.
You may see a bit of a chilli theme going on here. Well most of us appreciate a bit of additional warmth and colour in the depths of winter. And cheerful red chillies are just the ticket, glowing as they do with captured summer sunshine.
Homemade Edible Gifts: Christmas Cookies
You can’t have a post about homemade festive gifts without a generous selection of Christmas cookies. They’re the stalwarts of festive gifting. Everyone loves a good biscuit.
Wholemeal Clotted Cream Shortbread with Chestnut Flour and Cinnamon

Christmas Butter Biscuits

Chocolate Crinkle Cookies

Easy Christmas Cookies ~ Apply To Face Blog

Chilli Shortbread Biscuits

Cinnamon & Honey Christmas Stars

Vegan Christmas Cookies
It’s really exciting to see the creativity of vegan baking that’s emerged in recent years. It’s now really easy to make vegan biscuits and here are some recipes you might not have thought of.
Pine Needle Shortbread Cookies ~ A Virtual Vegan

Christmas Spiced Biscotti (vegan) ~ Peachicks’ Bakery

Jammy Vegan Biscuit Stars ~ The Veg Space

Homemade Edible Gifts: Chocolates and Sweets
When I was little, Christmas was very much about the chocolate. I didn’t get much of it the rest of the year, so we all went a bit mad during the festive season. I know I’m not the only one who loves to receive delicious homemade chocolates and fudge, so here are a few recipes to inspire you.
Chilli Chocolate Fudge

Easy Condensed Milk Fudge ~ Nourish Plate

Mint Chocolates

Homemade Turkish Delight ( Lokum) ~ Only Crumbs Remain

Whisky Truffles with Dark Chocolate and Fresh Cream

Christmas Chocolate Bark

Easy Microwave Salted Caramels ~ Kavey Eats

Sparkling Chocolate Mendiants

Vegan Treats
There’s absolutely no need for vegans to miss out on Christmas chocolates and other sweet treats. Vegan chocolate is widely available these days, which means you can create all sorts of yuletide gorgeousness. Here are just a few ideas.
Chocolate Covered Caramel Brazils

Chocolate Snowman Truffles (vegan) ~ The Baking Explorer

Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls (vegan) ~ A Baking Journey

Christmas Bliss Balls

Raw Chocolate Truffles

Homemade Edible Gifts: Nuts
Snacking is all part of the festive fun. And when it comes to snacking, nuts are the go to food. They’re nutritious, tasty and you can just have a small handful without ruining your appetite. Hand them out as homemade edible gifts and have a nut cracking Christmas.
Gingerbread Candied Nuts (DIY Christmas Gift) ~ The Green Loot

Roasted Maple Rosemary Almonds ~ The Taste Space

Honey Glazed Cinnamon Pecans ~ End of the Fork

Dad’s nuts ~ Quite Good Food

Homemade Edible Gifts: Jams, Jellies & Chutneys
Preserves make excellent homemade edible gifts because you can prepare them well in advance and they generally have a long shelf life. They’re often just what you need for the Christmas table too.
Roasted Mediterranean Vegetables In Olive Oil ~ Larder Love

Piccalilli: English-style Pickles ~ Christina’s Cucina

Pineapple Chilli Jam ~ Farmersgirl Kitchen

Spiced Apple Chutney

Spicy Tomato Chutney ~ Jess Eats and Travels

Caramelised Onion Chutney ~ Curly’s Cooking

Quince Jelly with Optional Apple and Chilli

Strawberry Jam with Chillies ~ My Goodness Kitchen

Easy Cranberry Curd ~ Fab Food 4 All

Chilli Chocolate Mincemeat

Homemade Stem Ginger ~ Tales From The Kitchen Shed

Other Homemade Edible Gifts You Might Not Have Thought Of
Whether it’s something to perk up your Christmas morning breakfast, provide a warming flavoursome cuppa or some breadsticks to dip into festive starters, welcome to a Merry Miscellaneous Christmas.
Instant Porridge Pots ~ Gluten Free Alchemist

Gingerbread Gluten Free Granola ~ Veggie Inspired

Homemade Vegan Breadsticks ~ Thinly Spread

Homemade Chilli Sauce

Homemade Vanilla Extract ~ The Art of Food and Wine

Easy Homemade Cassis

Homemade Tea Masala ~ Mayuris Jikoni

Homemade Festive Tea Blend ~ Family Friends Food

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Thanks for visiting Tin and Thyme. If you make any of these foodie gifts, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. What are your favourite foodie recipes to gift? Do share photos on social media too and use the hashtag #tinandthyme, so I can spot them.
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Choclette x
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Thanks for sharing, these are all great gifts to give, with share your pin 🙂
It’s always a tough decision as to what to make each year I find. So many delicious things.
Wow!!! Epic collection! I’m impressed.
So many fabulous ideas. Off to share and pin now xxx
Love your instant porridge in a jar Kate. What a very fun idea.
What a great collection of homemade gifts Choclette. I’m always looking for new ideas to add to my Christmas hampers, pinned! Thanks for including my Stem Ginger.
I’d so love one of your Christmas hampers Sarah, I bet they’re wonderful.
What a fabulous collection of homemade edible gifts for everyone on our list! Thanks for including my piccallili!
I so want a jar of your piccalilli Christina. I haven’t made any for years, but I do like it.
So many delicious ideas, I wouldn’t know where to start!
Well you know what they say, just start at the very beginning.
What a gorgeous Hamper one could make with these wonderful ideas! Thank you for including my curd
It would be wonderful indeed to receive a hamper of homemade goodies like these. I can but dream.
I love all these ideas! A great idea to put them all in one post! Xx
It’s useful to have a few things together when your looking for ideas. Scanning pages and pages of the internet is not generally very rewarding I find.
Wow what a fantastic and selection here! Ideas for everyone!
Trouble is, I have so much inspiration now, I’m not sure which ones to go for.
So many great recipes, thanks for this amazing round-up and for including my Pineapple Chilli Jam.
One day I will get around to making your pineapple chilli jam Janice, it sounds so good.
Some really great gifting ideas!
I love making and receiving homemade gifts – edible or otherwise.
Awesome collection of edible gifts. You’re so right Choclette, we could make one each day and gift it or even use it for ourselves.
Thank you for your contribution Mayuri. I think I might indeed be making one or two of these and gifting it to myself.