Make a Mexican Gift Basket or Cinco de Mayo Gift Baskets!

Make Your Own Mexican Gift Basket

Great Ideas for Cinco de Mayo Gift Baskets

Creating a Mexican Gift Basket can be almost as much fun as receiving one. This theme indicates dancing, great food, and cocktails; in other words ... It's Party Time!

Make sure your Mexican Gift Basket gets lots of attention by using vibrant colored shred, bows, etc.

If this is your first attempt at making a gift basket, visit my assembly web page for step-by-step details for making gift baskets. You'll also find decorating tips and dozens of ideas to personalize your gift baskets.

Any kind of basket, tray, or wooden crate is a perfectly fine container. Or you may choose a bowl with a Mexican design.

A Mexican Gift Basket is easy to make because the items you can include are endless. Kitchen towels and cloth or paper napkins with chili peppers on them are useful and attractive additions. You can roll these kind of gift items and stick them in an empty space. Anything soft makes your assembly easier because you can place breakable items next to the soft items.

Include several bottles, jars, or envelopes of seasonings: chili powder, oregano, taco seasoning, paprika, garlic flakes or powder, fajita seasoning, cumin, dried chili peppers, jalapenos, hot sauce, etc.

A Mexican cookbook, cd of Latin music, and dessert items are nice finishing touches. Mexican pepper

Add snack foods such as tortilla chips, corn chips, salsa, black bean dip, cheese sauces, etc.

Dry or canned black beans, navy beans, pinto beans, or garbanzo beans are good items as they take up a lot of space and make a good foundation to hold smaller items in place.

And, of course, add some rice, capers, and pine nuts...

When you read the info on my assembly page you will find detailed help about how to place gift items in your container.

Include beverage items such as Mexican beer, coffees, teas, or hot chocolate.

You can also include the makings for Margaritas: Tequila, Triple Sec, Margarita mix, glass rimming salt, drink umbrellas, and fresh limes or lemons.

Here is a final suggestion... Use one of these Salsa Recipes and include homemade salsa in the gift basket. If you want to make it extra special, here are several ways to decorate the jar. Actually, these make really nice gifts for teachers, as hostess gifts, etc.

Decorating Tips: Line your empty gift basket with a colorful tablecloth and tie several dried red chilis into the handles of the basket or tie it into the bow.

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