Gourmet gift baskets

            Planning a tea party with your womenfolk and women friends can be fun and exciting, especially if you haven’t seen them after a long while. And there is no better way to celebrate this occasion than with a tea and cookies gourmet gift basket. Aside from not having to watch you and your friends’ figures with heavy gastronomic offerings found in dinner parties, tea is one drink you can not have too much of.

            From the description itself, a tea and cookies gourmet gift basket consists mainly of tea and cookies. Of course, when you are serving gourmet, you do not just serve a gift basket of tea bags and plain oatmeal cookies. Here are a few things to consider in knowing what the ideal kinds of tea and cookies you may include in your gourmet gift basket.

            For your tea bags and tea packets, there are quite a few kinds you can choose from, and you may include a small pack or two of each of them in your gift basket. The most common is the black tea. A few popular types of black tea include the Darjeeling tea and the Ceylon black tea. You can purchase a small box of both kinds for those who are being introduced to the taste.

            Another kind of tea that is becoming more popular is the green tea primarily because of its health benefits. Aside from helping in food digestion, green tea has active ingredients that lessen the growth of cancer cells. Green tea should not be confused with herbal tea, as the former is made from actual tea leaves while the latter is made from other kinds of leaves or roots with medicinal characteristics. However, there is nothing stopping you from including a pack of herbal tea in your gourmet gift basket.

            Last but not the least, you can also put in a pack of Oolong tea in your gourmet gift basket. Oolong tea is also beneficial to one’s health because of its polyphenols, which lessen free radicals in the body. Oolong tea is ideal for first time tea drinkers because of its lighter taste than black or green tea.

            Because you have tea in your gourmet gift basket, you must also include a small jar or two of tea accompaniments such as milk, sweeteners including sugar, honey or stevia, and lemon or oranges. These will liven up the taste of your tea.

            After choosing your tea, you can now put in gourmet cookies in your gourmet gift basket to go along with the tea. Some of the traditional cookies you may include in the basket are chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies and peanut butter cookies for starters. Then throw in a few boxes or packs of flavored cookies such as gingerbread cookies, spritz cookies, butter cookies, and an assortment of brownies and biscuits. You may also put in sugar-free packs of any of these kinds of cookies for those who are health-conscious.

            Place all these in a nice stack in your tea and cookies gourmet gift basket, and you are now ready to enjoy your tea party.