9 Edible Gifts to Make for Mother's Day
Spicy Herb Salt
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Aged Gouda Biscotti with Walnuts
These crunchy biscotti are surprisingly rich-tasting thanks to aged Gouda and chopped walnuts.
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Date Quick Bread with Pecan Streusel
This date-studded quick bread can be made into mini loaves to give as gifts, or it can be baked as a standard loaf for serving at a meal.
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Crispy Whole Wheat-Maple Crackers
These sheets of pastry are made with maple syrup and sprinkled with maple sugar, then broken into shards.
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Aunt Julia’s Barbecue Sauce
Linton Hopkins’s aunt Julia—“my paternal grandmother’s sister-in-law,” he says—made giant vats of this barbecue sauce on her farm in Alabama, then drove around delivering it to everyone in her extended family. Hopkins likes to spoon it over coffee-cured pork shoulder.
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Soft Apple-Cider Caramels
To create your own spin on these chewy treats, use a flavored apple cider or add different spices, like ground ginger or black pepper.
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No-Cook Strawberry Jam
Made with instant pectin, this gingery strawberry jam from F&W’s Justin Chapple is amazingly fresh-tasting. Instead of canning the jam in hot water, store it in a freezer to maintain its just-picked flavor.
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Raspberry Macarons
These are among the simplest macarons, made with only sugar, almond flour, egg whites and red food coloring—and a filling of raspberry jam.
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Roasted White Chocolate & Coffee Truffles
Belinda Leong made many kinds of ganache (a rich, smooth chocolate-and-cream mixture) during her time at the venerable Pierre Hermé pâtisserie in Paris. Here, she slow-roasts white chocolate, which adds an enticing caramel flavor to the super-creamy ganache filling in her truffles.