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FOR THE ALL-AROUND BAKER
Baking sheet or cake pan, oven thermometer, minute timer, potholders, sex of mixing bowls, measuring spoons, dry measuring cups, liquid measuring cup, spatula, cookbook or recipe card filled with recipes, one of the Craft Recipe crafts, cooling rack, apron, mixing bowls.
My idea: Fill a large ceramic mixing bowl lined with kitchen towel or apron.  Fill with a few of the items, what you put it depends on you.  The Cookbook should be small enough to fit the bowl or put in recipe cards that you make yourself.  Arrange the items to give it height and if you're giving a baking pan, cookie sheet, or cooling rack, use these as a base for the ceramic bowl.  Wrap with a nice colored cellophane wrapper, tie at the top and put a tag on it.

FOR PASTA LOVERS
A large collander lined with a couple nice linen napkins or kitchen towel, filled with an assortment of dried pasta shapes, a bottle of two or pasta sauce, a cheese grater, a pepper grinder, parmesan cheese, some breadsticks and some pasta sauce mixes. Add a bottle of wine and a Pasta Cookbook.

FOR THE VEGETARIAN
In a basket or container, lined with decorative kitchen towel.  Add an assortment of dried beans, peas, lentils, and whole grains, along with vegetable shaped magnets, corn holders, vegetable shaped salt and pepper shakers and or a vegetable shaped trivet. Then add a Meatless Cookbook or Vegetarian Cookbook and a Salad Cookbook.

FOR THE PIZZA LOVER
Regular or deep-dish pizza pans, 12 or 14 inches in diameter; packaged pizza crust mix, assorted tomato sauces, bottled or packaged pizza sauce, cheese shaker, a pizza wheel, grated parmesan cheese, a Pizza Cookbook and a kitchen mitt or pot holder.  Add some breadsticks too and a bottle of wine.

FOR THE SALAD LOVER
Large salad bowl filled with salad tongs, cheese grater, pepper grinder, a plastic cutting board, assorted interesting bottled salad dressings, flavored oils or vinegars, croutons, breadsticks and a Salad Cookbook.  Line the container with a decorative kitchen towel.

FOR THE BREAD BAKER
Large bread mixing bowl, filled with large wooden or plastic spoons, large rubber scrapers, large wire whisks, and bread pans of various sizes, assorted bread mixes make sure to add some quick bread mixes too, packages of yeast and a Bread Recipe Cookbook.

FOR MEAT LOVERS
A roasting pan lined with decorative towel.  Fill it with an assortment of meat and poultry seasoning and a Main course Cookbook, a meat thermometer, apron, pot holders or mitts.  You could also put in a bottle of wine.

HOSTESS GIFT
Fill a basket with shredded metallic paper and add 3 or 4 interesting flavors of bottled water, unusual fruit juices,  or small bottles of wine bottles of wine, beers, or liquers.

FOR THE GOURMET COFFEE LOVER
On a serving tray arrange a coffee grinder with assorted kinds of coffee beans {Or an expresso/cappuccino coffee pot} Add individual packets of flavored coffees, flavored coffee creamers, coffee mugs, chocolate-covered coffee beans, imported cookies and a couple chocolate covered spoons.

FOR THE GARDENER
A big vegetable pickers basket.  Filled with a Garden How-To book of favorite plant/flower.  Graduated set of clay pots.  Gardening gloves, gardening tools, a starter nursery pack and maybe a recipe book for using the vegetables that are harvested from the garden or maybe a book on making preserves and pickles.

THE CHOCOHOLIC
A container lined with napkins.  Filled with variety of individually wrapped homemade fudge, assorted chocolated candy samplers, double chocolate-chocolate chipped cookies or one of the recipes from the Cookie in a jar craft of the Craft Recipes section of this site.  Attach a recipe for each of the homemade items to the package.  I'm sure the chocoholic will get someone to make it for them.

FOR THE COMPUTER NUT
A rectangular basket filled with mouse pad, 3 1/2 floppy diskettes, cd containers, coffee cup filled with assorted single serving coffee and creamers and a variety of snacks.  For height you can put in computer paper.
 
 

Coffee Mugs
Place 3 or 4 individual packets of flavored hot chocolate or specialty
coffees or teas in a mug. Add a couple of candy canes or a few hard candies to
the mug and tie a ribbon to the handle.

Tea Cup and Saucer
Put the tea cup on the saucer.  Fill the cup with mints and candies.  Fill the open saucer area with individually packaged imported tea cookies.

Chocolate Spoons
6 ounces semisweet chocolate pieces
4 ounces milk chocolate pieces (or white, mint, etc. chocolate)
20 plastic spoons
Wax paper

Line a cookie sheet large enough to hold plastic spoons.
Place semisweet chocolate pieces in a heavy saucpan over low heat, stirring constantly until the chocolate begins to melt.  Immediately remove from heat; stir until smooth.  Dip spoons into chocolate, tapping the handle of the spoon against the side of the pan to remove excess
chocolate.  Place spoons on waxed paper; refrigerate for 30 minutes or until
chocolate is set.

Cocoa in a Mug
Put a few single pack hot cocoa mix in a large mug.  Put the mix in a plastic bag inside the mug and tie the bag shut with pretty ribbon.

Brownie Board
Arrange brownies on a cutting board with a container of brownie mix.  Cover all with plastic wrap
and top with a big bow.

Salad Dressing Pack
A decorative salad dressing cruet and several packages of salad dressing mixes.  Wrap it in colorful cellophane wrap tied with ribbon.