No-Baking Baking Gifts
In that interesting intersection of packaging, baking, gifting, dry+shippable... we have a unique twist on how to gift cookies. Without baking. And even get to have fun layering things together much like sand art as a kid where you layered various colored sand in glass? This first caught my eye in Glamour's Dec 07 issue ~ and i tore out the page to come back to... and then browsing Neiman Marcus noticed that even THEY are doing it with their infamous internet urban legend of a chocolate chip recipe (more on both below). As usual, this got me on a little internet rampage googling up "gift in a jar" "mix in a jar" and there are a LOT of options and recipes out there... however, i must say most of my finds lead me to some pretty painfully hideous sites, and their recipes images were not that much nicer. So i'll spare you. But as for the semi-crafty or low budgeted out there, i think we designers could do some really gorgeous things with this whole no-bake baking gifts concept... after all its really ALL in the packaging isn't it? (If it doesn't come out perfectly, maybe they baked it wrong!)... oh and if you're truly lazy, you can probably just buy some nice packaging and repackage some betty crocker?
