With a bit of effort and some of our Mother's Day recipes, you can make your mum a gorgeous homemade food hamper this Mother's Day.
Why not make your Mum feel extra special this Mother’s Day by making a homemade Mother’s Day hamper. We’ve got lots of delicious, simple recipes to whip up and add to your Mum’s hamper including sweet biscuits, savoury twists and impressive cupcakes.
Your Mum is going to love tucking into these homemade gifts – especially when they’re made by you!
All you need to do is buy the ingredients for each recipe and a hamper to pop your goodies in including storage bags or floral packaging to make her hamper extra special.
Learn how to make your very own Mother’s Day food hamper now…
Kids’ flower cookies
Easy!
This super-simple recipe is ideal for getting the kids into baking. And they'll love getting creative with the cookie cutter.
Rose Turkish Delight
Woman's Weekly recipe!
If your mum loves Turkish Delight, she'll love this homemade version, delicately flavoured with rosewater.
Quick soft-set strawberry jam
Woman's Weekly recipe!
Want to impress mum with a traditional gift? Make her a jar of homemade jam, packed with sweet juicy strawberries.
Spicy puff pastry straws
Takes 30 mins!
Treat mum to these irresistible savoury nibbles. You can even freeze these advance if you're short on time - just don't tell her!
Rachel Allen’s iced vanilla cupcakes
Rachel Allen recipe!
These gorgeous cupcakes come out of the oven flat on top - giving you free rein to decorate with anything from crystallised flowers to sugared almonds.
Edam, bacon and sun-dried tomato muffins
Simple!
Add a few savoury treats to the hamper like these fillling mufins, made with bacon, Edam cheese and fresh chives.
Scottish shortbread
Woman's Weekly recipe!
This is a brilliantly easy recipe. All you need is plain flour, caster sugar, salt and butter to make a batch of Scottish shortbread.
Blackberry and clotted cream palmiers
Impressive!
Palmiers are easier to make than they look, so wow your mum with these treats.
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