The Twelve Days of Coffee - Part 1

Years ago, I made "The Twelve Days of Coffee" and "The Twelve Days of Tea" sets to give as gifts. Since I mass produced them, they were pretty inexpensive. (I can't remember how much I spent per basket, I can't imagine it was more than $10 each as that was my per family budget.)

Today I will share the coffee recipe and instructions. Tomorrow, I will share the tea.

Because my blog formatting goes all wonky if I post anything long, each one will have to be in two parts.

First, the instructions:
1. Make the 12 different flavored coffees and package them in pretty tins. (You can probably post on your local Freecycle list asking for used General Foods International Coffee tins. Just cover them with holiday themed paper.)
2. Line a basket with a paper holiday print napkin, or scrap of holiday print fabric.
3. Put a loaf of homemade bread into a basket.
4. Put the Coffees around the bread.
5. Tuck in sprigs of evergreen, holly and pepperberry here and there.
6. Tie a gift tag with "The Twelve Days of Coffee" to the handle, and list all of the names of the coffees. Make a small tag or each tin with the name of each coffe and instructions for making a cup. I always put something dorky like "Made by the last name tea company. Purveyors of fine coffees since current year" on the big tag.

To make the coffees: Place all dry ingredients in a blender or food processor and mix until they are powder.

The Twelve Days of Coffee Part 2