If you are considering top 10 Christmas gift basket ideas, then the following ideas may work for you.  Christmas is all about giving and receiving gifts. The Christmas gift basket ideas recounted below were inspired by some old and new ideas.

Classic Chocolate Gift Basket: This is one of the marvelous Christmas gift basket ideas of the all time.  You can buy a good metallic box and decorate it with pink silk or crepe paper and add: 250 gm of any fresh Belgian chocolate, chocolate bars from some reputed brand such as Cote d’Or, a bottle of chocolate liquor, a box of cocoa, and box of edible fruits and flower decorated with flavored sugar.

CD Box with Chocolate Drink accessories:  You can buy a customized CD Box from the market and prepare a decorated CD box on your own by adding: 2 or 3 ceramic chocolate mugs, matching set of chocolate canister and pack of the matching paper napkins. Decorate the box with brown leatherette and top it with matching polka dotted ribbons.

Wine Christmas Gift Basket: This is one of the unique Christmas gift basket ideas of all time because wine is considered to be the symbol of elegance. You can buy a regular leather or vinyl basket from the market and decorate it with: Wine candies, professional corkscrew, a wine tasting set, red, rose and white wine bottles (decorated with matching polka dotted ribbons), box of branded wine jellies, and any exotic wine club membership coupon/a copy of wine bible.

Spanish Christmas Gift Basket: A Spanish Christmas Gift Basket is one of the elegant ways of paying back to your friends and family members who stood by you throughout the year.  You can buy metallic basket and wrap it with yellow and red crepe paper and add: your box of favorite Christmas cookies, a bottle of Ponche (cream based liquor), a bottle of "Sangre de Toro" wine, a chorizo, a bottle of Spanish olive oil, a pack of “Manchego” cheese, a Serrano ham or negra ham, and almond turrons. You can add or discard the ingredients as per your personal preferences.

Personalized Fortune Cookie Gift Basket:  This is one of the novel ideas for preparing a Christmas gift baskets. You can buy any regular metallic box and decorate it with the red or pink silk paper and add: giant Chinese fortune cookies, with personalized message.   You can prepare a specialized chocolate cookie by dipping it the chocolate of your choice (read white, dark or milk chocolate).

Personalized Christmas Special Cookbook: This is one of the unusual Christmas gift basket ideas of all time. You can present a specialized cook book to the cook.  You can personalize this cookbook with some personal photos of the special cooking moments, recipes and some sweet memories related with the food. You can download Christmas cookbook from iFOOD website, which features some old memories of your time together.

Personalized Steak Brands: Until now we have told you great deal about the Christmas gift basket ideas for wine lovers, chocolate lovers, cooks, etc, but this Christmas gift basket idea can go well with the meat lovers.  You can gift a box of gift recipients personalized steak brand with personalized initials.  You can buy the personalized steak brands from online stores.

Chocolate flavored Spa Christmas Gift Basket:  You can make your own chocolate flavored spa Christmas gift basket by adding : a chocolate colored towel, chocolate flavored body lotion, chocolate shower gel, chocolate colored body sponge set, body exfoliating accessories, bottle of chocolate essence water, horsehair glove, etc. You can design the box by packing it with chocolate color silk paper.

Gourmet Christmas Food Gift Basket:  You can present this unique Christmas gift basket to your special friends. You will need wooden wine case to make the gourmet Christmas food gift basket and decorate it with straw or unbleached silk or crepe paper and add: fresh French foie gras, caviar, three bottles of red, rose and white, a pot of onion confit, duck confit, and truffle performed oil and seasoning. This is just a suggestion you can create personalized gourmet Christmas food gift basket by incorporating your friends favorite foods.

Plant a Tree in Someone’s Name: We think that this is the very unique amongst all Christmas gift basket ideas.  You can plant a tree in the memory of the year 2010. This tree can help you improve someone else’s life, so you can purchase it from a trusted non-profit organization dedicated for the cause of saving trees.  You can dedicate this tree in the name of your loved ones.

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