Pizza has long been one of the most popular foods around the world due to it’s delicious taste as well as the many varieties available. Traditional size pizzas are eaten for lunch and dinner, while the mini varieties are perfect for snacks and appetizers. For those watching their calorie intake, the meat and extra cheese can be skipped in favor of fresh vegetable toppings. Do you have a loved one who simply can’t get enough of pizza? Surprise them this year with a gift that they will absolutely love – a Pizza Lover’s Gift Basket! Not only does this gift represent their favorite food, it also contains all the items they need to get started on making their own pizza at home. Once people realize how relatively easy and fun it is to make their own pizza, they often stop ordering out as much and instead indulge in their favorite meal by creating it with their own hands. The terrific part about making this fun gift basket is that it can be very simple with only six or seven items, or you can go all out and fill a very large basket with many different toppings and spices to really thrill your loved one with a very extravagant gift.
Basic Supplies For Your Pizza Lover’s Basket: The first step when creating a gift basket, is of course, choosing your style of basket. For a Pizza Lover’s Gift Basket, you should choose a large rectangle or oval shaped wicker basket. You will definitely want to include a pizza pan in the basket so you want to be sure that you have enough room in the basket to accommodate it comfortably. After choosing your basket, you can begin to fill it with the basic items your gift recipient will need to begin the fun of pizza making. A round pizza pan, pizza dough mix, several jars of pizza sauce, a pizza cutter and grated cheese are the basic necessities. By arranging the items neatly on a bed of red and white tissue paper and then wrapping the entire basket in red cellophane makes a very simple, but fun gift.
Optional Items For Your Pizza Lover’s Basket: If you have the means and the desire to make the gift basket fuller and more extravagant, consider several or all of the following items: A stick of pepperoni, a jar of green olives, Oregano, Minced Garlic, a pepper grinder, crushed red pepper, a can of black olives, and a can of crushed pineapple. You can also include some fun non food items such as red and white checked oven mitts, an apron and a colorful book of homemade pizza recipes.
The next time your loved one gets a yen for their favorite food, instead of picking up the phone, they can head to the kitchen instead!
