Helpful Hints for Your Holiday Bakeshop

Cookies in Packaging

Holiday baking is one of those highly anticipated signs that the Christmas season is upon us. There's often so much tradition behind those baked items that help to give the holiday season a truly festive feel. Somehow a Christmas Party without shortbread cookies, mince tarts, hot cinnamon rolls and other fresh-baked goods just wouldn't seem quite right.

You're bound to serve a wide range of baked delights to the many folks who drop in throughout the season, as well as on Christmas day for both brunch and dinner. Add to that the fact that the holidays are the time of year when you're most likely see bake sales popping up, or you may even give home-baked goodies as gifts throughout the season. Considering all that, there's certainly no shortage of baking to be done.

You can save yourself a lot of time by baking many of these items in advance. Many baked goods freeze especially well, though the key to keeping them fresh is in the packaging. Even in the freezer, food can absorb tastes and odors from other foods. If your chest freezer is filled primarily with baking, you need not worry as much, though if your freezer section is home to a wide range of foods that'll be near your baked goods, you will want to take extra care to make sure that everything is sealed up tight.

You can freeze many of your baked foods already packaged and ready to go. If you plan to give baked goods as gifts throughout the season, you can package them up in festive form so that you can simply grab them from the freezer as you need them.

You can package cookies in festive-themed food-safe cello bags, or pile them up on colorful plates with holiday designs. Cupcakes (both mini and regular sized) can be packaged in clear clamshell-style containers that will not only keep your cupcakes standing upright in the freezer, but will also provide an attractive gift presentation after you've wrapped the container up with a bow. Loaves or small cakes can be baked in single-use card-stock loaf pans, or you can also find inexpensive multi-use metal or ceramic loaf pans at craft or kitchen stores so that the recipient will have an item to hold onto long after the baking is gone.

If you've been asked to donate items for a bake sale, you can use similar tactics, or you can wrap items up in smaller, single servings by using food-safe cello wrap. Cello wrap is often available in a wide range of colors and prints so that you can continue the holiday theme right through into the packaging.

Cupcakes in Packaging

Part of what makes baked goods such a special holiday gift item is the aspect of sharing – not only the idea of sharing food but also sharing traditions. Food is such an important aspect of the holiday celebrations. Sharing home-baked items is a gift of time and caring, but also a sharing of family history. Most families have a number of highly coveted holiday recipes that have been passed down from generation to generation. These recipes help us to remember home if we're celebrating the season somewhere far away, and they also help us to remember loved ones after they're gone by letting us feel as though our loved ones are still part of each year's Christmas traditions. By sharing home-baked delights with friends and family members, you share these memories with a whole new set of people, making them a part of the tradition, too.

Holiday Baking Packaging

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