GOURMET BASKET IDEA

Container Ideas:

• Breakfast tray

• Fireside basket

• Ice bucket

• Picnic basket

• Platter

• Punch bowl

• Silver serving tray

• Top hat (real or plastic)

• Trunk

• Wicker hamper

• Wooden basket
   

Content Suggestions:

• Biscotti

• Caviar

• Champagne

• Cheese (Brie, Gouda)

• Cheesecake

• Chocolate turtles

• Deli bread

• Fancy water crackers

• Fruit slice candies

• Gourmet cappuccino

• Gourmet caramel popcorn

• Gourmet chocolate

• Gourmet cookies

• Gourmet mustard

• Gourmet tea

• Italian salami

• Jam

• Mineral water

• Music CD

• Nuts (cashews, macadamia nuts)

• Smoked salmon

• Summer sausage

• Tickets to local attraction or event

• Toffee

• Truffles

• Wine
   

Decorating Possibilities:

• Use an elegant color scheme, such as burgundy and gold, blue and gold, or black and gold.

• Line the bottom of the basket with a lace doily, a piece of Victorian lace, velvet or tapestry fabric, or an elegant table runner.

• Top off the basket with a gold wired bow.

• Add silk roses to the inside and/or outside of the basket.

• Hot glue gold tassels or fringe to the outside edge of the basket.

• Place items in a black costume top hat, and hang a pair of white costume gloves over the front edge of the hat. Wrap with cellophane and tie the top with a costume black and white bow tie.

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The basket pictured above can be purchased from GiftTree.com