• How about a gift certificate to MojaMix, where recipients can custom-blend the organic breakfast cereal of their dreams?
• 479° Popcorn (that’s the temperature at which popcorn pops) has fab flavors already popped, or kits to pop your own, including a can of organic sunflower oil from Top Pick La Tourangelle Oil. We like the snappy gift boxes, too.
• People who want to go green as well as schlep less will love the Pure Seltzer & Soda Maker from Soda Stream. You carbonate all of your own beverages at home in the permanent bottles provided. No waste, no recycling, no schlepping. And the natural flavors, quite frankly, taste better than store-bought. We adore ours.

See all of our green & organic gifts.

Visit our NutriNibbles section for all of our organic product reviews and our organic terms glossary.

The organic Ginger Sesame Caramel Popcorn
from 479° Popcorn rocks. Photo by Hannah
Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

Celebrate today with a hot cup of cocoa.
Photo by Patterson Minx | IST.

You can buy rimmers just for cocoa, but cocktail rimmers for chocolate martinis, espresso martinis, peppermintinis and orange blossoms are essentially the same product.

Or, make your own rimmer by grinding bittersweet chocolate bars or coffee, butterscotch hard and peppermint hard candies (or candy canes) to a fine gravel. You can mix ingredients or offer them as separate flavors.

Then, just moisten the rim of the cup or mug with water, dip it onto a plate of rimmer powder to coat, add the hot cocoa and serve. Yes, you certainly can top it with whipped cream!

• Read our article on how to prepare hot cocoa—we assume you’re not serving an instant mix.

Even if you’re not Jewish, why not make some latkes over the weekend, and join the never-ending discussion over which is the better topping: applesauce or sour cream. (In our book, it’s crème fraîche and salmon caviar.)

But, for something a little different:

• Bake a challah with this recipe.
• Make a pasta salad with kosher star-of-David-shaped pasta from The Pasta Shoppe (read our review).
• Review the history of Chanukah, and why a menorah is lit for eight nights.

Star Of David pasta from The Pasta Shoppe.

Indulge someone with indulge caramels.
Photo by Hannah Kaminsky | THE NIBBLE.

There’s something for everyone, from hot and spicy chocolate to “cocktail cups”—a chocolate Margarita rimmed with salt—to chocolate bars wrapped in angel paintings.

Take a bite now.

Want pricier, pretty boxed chocolate gifts? We’ve got plenty of those, too. Some look like sushi!

You can find loose dried cranberries in many specialty food stores, and Ocean Spray Craisins in most supermarkets.

Split the amount of chocolate chips in your recipe by half, making up the remainder with the cranberries. Do the same with the raisins in the oatmeal cookie recipe.

The cranberries add not just holiday flavor but color, too.

• Here’s a cherry chocolate chip recipe that you can use with dried cranberries.

Make cranberry chocolate chip cookies for the
holidays. Photo courtesy Cherry Marketing Institute.