Decorating with Gourmet Gift Baskets for the Holidays

The holidays are one of the busiest entertaining seasons of the year for many of us – from hosting neighborhood parties, to family gatherings or dinner with friends. Decking your home with festive holiday décor helps set the mood for your events and can be done easily and inexpensively with a little creativity.

Hickory Holiday Reserve Gift Basket from Hickory Farms

Decorating with baskets is an excellent way to add some classic holiday style to your home, and the possibilities are endless! In fact, when you purchase gourmet gift baskets from Hickory Farms, you’re getting not only delicious gourmet sausage and cheese, but also a finely crafted basket that could become a beautiful centerpiece for your holiday gatherings.

Orchard’s Bounty Gift Basket from Hickory Farms

Many of our keepsake gift baskets feature baskets from the Peterboro Basket® Company, hand-crafted in New Hampshire. These made-in-America baskets provide a wonderful base for all sorts of arrangements and centerpieces. Take a look at some great ideas that you or the special person on your gift list could use to decorate with Hickory Farms gift baskets.

We love this simple centerpiece idea from Martha Stewart. The equation is simple, but the key is quality; a beautiful handmade basket, greenery and luscious fruit. Our fruit baskets are a fantastic choice for last-minute holiday entertaining. They not only make great centerpieces, but the delicious fruit is also great for pre-meal snacking!

Channel the cornucopia motif of Thanksgiving with an autumn harvest basket full of colorful gourds. A trip to your local farmers market or grocery store is all it takes to find an assortment of visually interesting gourds in different shapes, sizes, colors and textures.

Create a stunning centerpiece for your Thanksgiving table or sideboard with this tutorial for three-tiered Bountiful Fall Baskets. A set of small, medium and large baskets overflowing with lush greenery, eucalyptus, pinecones and clove-studded citrus makes for a display that is not only beautiful, but also deliciously fragrant.

And remember, you can decorate with baskets throughout your home! Spruce up your powder room for guests by placing clean hand towels in a basket near the sink.

How do you use baskets to decorate for the holidays? To explore more basket décor ideas, visit Hickory Farms on Pinterest, and don’t forget to buy your gourmet gift baskets now for the holiday season!

Create Great Hostess Gifts with Gourmet Food Gifts from Our Mix & Match Promo!

Spirit of the Season Wine Gift from Hickory Farms

The holidays are a time of togetherness with friends, family and community, and that means lots of social engagements! Whether it’s a dinner party, holiday open house or another festive event, don’t forget to show your appreciation with a host or hostess gift.

When it comes to choosing a great holiday host gift, you can’t go wrong with wine and cheese baskets. Wine gifts are a thoughtful way to thank the host, especially when combined with gourmet cheese or nuts. At Hickory Farms, we have a wide variety of wine gift baskets available to fit any taste, from fall-themed wine gift baskets to options with traditional Hickory Farms items.

holiday hostess gifts from Hickory Farms

Make custom holiday gifts.

Martha Stewart has some great ideas for hostess gifts as well, like the one shown above. Just arrange a jar of specialty preserves with a pretty tea towel and a small cutting board, and then tie a ribbon around it. Or, for a convenient alternative, try our Orchard Preserves Sampler.

Beef Summer Sausage from Hickory Farms

You could also use a cutting board as the base for a custom gift, adding gourmet meats and cheeses, sweet hot mustard, and other gourmet food gifts. Tie a decorative knife and spreader to the cutting board with ribbon, and you’ve got a great host gift. Not only is this idea charming and easy, but right now we’re doing our Mix, Match & Save promotion!

Throughout November, buy two and save $1 on our featured items, plus save an additional $1 for each added item! This amazing deal includes our classic Summer Sausage, gourmet cheese bars, holiday cheese balls and cheese spreads, bagged candies, gourmet mustards, peanut brittle, and meat snacks. All items under $10 are included, so you can pick up plenty of pantry essentials for holiday gifts, and get yourself some of your favorites as well.
What is the best host or hostess gift you’ve ever received at a holiday party? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below, and be sure to visit Hickory Farms to get your holiday shopping done early!

Give Thanks with Military Gifts and Honeygold Ham

Thanksgiving will be here before you know it, so the time is now to plan your menu and reflect on what you’re thankful for this year. Family is important to many and often means creating a holiday feast as a labor of love.
We have a wide selection of military gifts that will be a welcome surprise to a deployed soldier. Whether you have a family member deployed overseas or want to put a smile on a soldier’s face, check out our summer sausage, gourmet cheese, dried fruit and gourmet nut gifts. To help spread holiday cheer to men and women in uniform, Hickory Farms offers free shipping to APO and FPO addresses. We are also proud to work with Operation Gratitude to send military gifts to our troops abroad and to veterans here at home.

Don’t forget that behind our soldiers are families who love and miss them. If you know a military family who is missing their deployed loved one this holiday season, consider showing your support through a holiday gift basket. Hickory Farms holiday gift baskets, full of gourmet sausage and cheese, nuts, fruit, and other tempting treats, are the perfect way to warm hearts this holiday season.
What are you thankful for this year? Share your thoughts with us in the comments or on the Hickory Farms Facebook page.