Do you have customers who claim they have cookie monsters living with them? Stock up on plenty of cookies and party supplies as you may be in for a long siege before the cookie monster rage is gone. As a gift baskets home business owner you need to prepare your business for the mad rush of themed or hobby gift basket requests. It is fun to do cookie gift baskets as they open up to some pretty interesting basket ideas. Here are just a few – you may have requests for the following cookie basket occasions:

Weddings, holidays, graduations, birthday parties, anniversaries, romantic dates, congratulations, get well, thank you, and going away as well as the typical showers for baby and bridal.

Customers may request special customized cookie baskets for children, corporate events, as party favors, the men in their lives, for girlfriends, even for diabetics.

The cookies can be favorite packeged kind you buy in stores or they may desire homemade cookies.

Customers may be on a budget and desire you to make them a basket for under $25 U.S.D., or they may be going for an all out celebration and spring for a $80 U.S.D. basket.

Here are some non-food items that go well in cookie gift baskets:

Kid party favors

Ceramic animals

Fabric flowers

Books

Stickers

Suckers

Coloring books and crayons

Chocolate Coins

Baseball Cards

Marbles

Costume Jewelry

Flashlight

Gourmet cookie gift baskets are a big hit with corporate customers. They are also popular for Father’s Day and holiday gift giving. Thank your business associates or employees with dozens of gourmet cookies that can even have your logo on a decorative tin. Other containers that gift basket home business owners have used for cookie gift baskets are boxes, and tins.

Customers will enjoy the selection of nuts, candy or coffee that can be included in the themed cookie gift baskets.

A fantastic idea for any gift baskets home business is to provide your customers with a catalog of available selections and prices. Another important marketing tool for your gift basket business is to pass out business cards with the category of baskets that you provide.

Your customer no matter why they are buying cookie gift baskets whether it be for a shower, party, birthday, anniversary, corporate event or employee recognition; cookies are versatile, a crowd pleaser, easy to store and keep fresh and are generally well received.