If you enjoy giving edible gifts that you make at home, it can make them a little cuter to dress them up with some nice packaging and food labels. These ideas about how to wrap food gifts will make your baked goods look more upscale, and the labels and stickers that we have in our Zazzle shop can be customized to personalize Christmas cookie gifts or gifts of food throughout the year.
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Why you should use custom labels for baked goods.
You can get free printable labels from a lot of places, but if you want to upgrade things a little you can order labels and packaging with your name and the type of product in the package. They look nicer than something you download and print yourself, and some of the ones that I’ve designed also have room for ingredients. That can be important for people who have food allergies.
Stickers are good for things that are going to be hard to attach a gift tag to. You can stick them to plastic wrap, gift wrap, boxes, or things that are oddly-shaped, so they’re really versatile. I’ve designed stickers that have more or less information on them so you can add the ingredients, the name of the product, and your name if you want to put more or less details on them.
Colorful mixer stickers, tags, and boxes.
If you’re looking for something that’s not holiday-themed, you can get this design with a colored mixer on it. I have it in several colors so that you can choose the ones that you like best. Customize them on Zazzle to add your name, message, and what’s in the package.
Ivory mixer with kraft paper brown border food gift stickers.
This one is the same mixer color with an ivory border.
A pale green gift tag with a green mixer.
The green sticker version of the green gift tag.
This one has a blue mixer with a violet blue border.
This gift tag has the same type of design as the stickers.
Cookie boxes are good if you want to have a way to protect the baked goods when you move them around. Boxes have a limited capacity, though, so make sure that you’re ordering some that are big enough for what you want to put in them! The boxes that I’ve designed have a place on the side for ingredients, or you can delete the text from the template and write things in by hand if you don’t know what you’ll be putting in the boxes. This favor box is big enough to put some cookies in, but not so big that you’ll have to bake multiple dozens to fill it. It also has a space on the side to add the ingredients, or you can delete that section to leave it blank.
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Logo stickers for a home business.
Home businesses need to be very careful to look professional so that people trust the quality of your products! There are a lot of shady home bakers, so you want to make sure that people know that you’re following all of the home baking regulations that you’re supposed to be following.
You can see all of the cottage food law stickers I made to follow each US state’s laws here on Zazzle (make sure to verify that things haven’t changed since I designed these!): Cottage Food Law stickers for baked goods Click on “categories” to see products by state.
You can also get the legal stickers with all of the information to put on the back of the packaging, and get some cute ones to put on the front! Edit these with your logo to make them belong to your business.
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Gift bags.
Gift bags are good for things like mini loaves and cookies that you’ve put into baggies. You can do an assortment of treats and put them in the bag with a gift tag that matches. I also have tissue paper that matches this design, so you can add that to complete the look!
Click here to see ideas for Valentine’s Day gifts for a new relationship. A home-baked gift would be good for that!
Cake and cupcake packaging.
You can get cake and cupcake packaging at Oasis Supply, and you can use my affiliate referral code to get a discount on every order. (Put CAKE10) in at checkout. They have a wide range of cake decorating and baking supplies, and it’s one of the places that I shopped for my supplies when I did custom wedding cakes.
Stickers, boxes and tags with a “from the kitchen of” theme.
Packaging that has a basic “made by me for you” theme is a simple design that you can customize. I have these in a few designs with different patterns.
This one has a light blue background and a little snowflake design.
This has room for the ingredients, or you can add a custom message in that space.
Gift tags that have a space for ingredients or a message, and a blank back for a custom message.
Gift boxes that match the same design and the ingredients on the side, or you can delete the ingredients to leave that section blank.
Gift tags that match the basic design.
Gift tags are nice if you want to use the back to write a personal message, or if you want to put information about the product on them. You can also add a general greeting to the back of the tags when you order them so that you don’t have to add a message by hand.
Christmas cookie and food gifts packaging.
Everyone knows that Christmas and the holiday season is the time of year when people go crazy with their baking, and you’ll probably see a lot of cookies and baked goods being given as gifts. You can make yours stand out from the rest by using customized stickers and packaging.
These have a vintage holly sprig that I’ve added a colored bow to, and a blank tag back so that you can add your own handwritten message.
This is the green bow version.
Wreath themed gift tags and stickers.
These wreath-themed gift tags have a space for the type of product you made, your name, and a message. The backs are blank so that you can write a message to the person you’re giving it to. Add them to gift bags or loaf pans that are wrapped with ribbon.
I also have stickers and more styles of gift tags with this wreath design, which is pulled from a vintage Christmas card.
This white version has the full wreath on the sticker.
Christmas themed “from my kitchen” style labels.
This style of stickers and gift tags has a general “From my kitchen” type message that you can edit. I made them with different messages so that you can choose the one that you like best, or you can edit them to put your own message on the bottom. They have a hand drawn Christmas holly design in different colors.
This one has a white background with the holly.
This has a dark red background.
This one has a green background. I also have a dark blue in this design.
Christmas cookie exchange party labels.
If you’re attending, or are throwing a Christmas cookie exchange party yourself, I have labels for that. These are stickers, but I have gift boxes and other accessories available. Go here to see the full collection: Christmas cookie exchange party paper goods.
And click here for a list of the Best Christmas Cookie Exchange Recipes.
Christmas holly labels.
These stickers, cookie boxes, and gift tags take the hand drawn holly from the designs above and add it to a minimalist text design in different colors.
Kraft paper brown with a Happy Holidays message.
A green gift box that has the holly design and a Merry Christmas message. These are sized well for a mini loaf of pumpkin bread, like the recipe that I have here: Pumpkin bread recipe.
This white design has a Merry Christmas message with a fun font.
This white version has a more formal script font.
Here’s the script design in a red color.
And the green version of the Merry Christmas script design.
This gift tag has the Merry Christmas design on a kraft paper brown background.
This version has the Happy Holidays message on a green background.
The gift bag that goes with this group has the same design with a customizable text name.
This is the gift box version of this design, and you can also get tissue paper that matches.
Buffalo plaid designs.
I have buffalo plaid in so many colors…These are some of the colors that I have for the gift boxes for the holidays.
These gift boxes are cute for putting a single mini loaf or bags of cookies and other treats. The ingredients can be added to the side of the box.
I like this red plaid version with the same design in the heart on the sticker. You can add the name of what you baked, or delete that from the label and write it in with a sharpie later.
This one has the plaid and the holly from the designs above.
Black and white is a nice choice for the buffalo plaid design, it signals winter more than holidays.
I like the green buffalo plaid, too. It’s a subtle holiday design and this one has a script Merry Christmas message with the holly.
Christmas bells gift labels.
Finally, I have these Christmas bells that are taken from a vintage Christmas card. These come in some different bow colors, and are a cute decoration for your packaging.