Our Ultimate Gift Basket is assembled by hand and filled with ready to eat artisan foods. Here’s a tour of what your recipients will be thanking you for as they dig into the deliciousness:
Baked Goods from Zingerman’s Bakehouse
All of the pastries like brownies and cookies from Zingerman’s Bakehouse are made with great ingredients, including real butter, fresh eggs, and real vanilla. Each pastry will have an “eat or freeze by” sticker that is about two weeks from when the package started its lucky journey from us to you. If you’ll be enjoying the treats soon, they can be kept at room temperature in the packaging they arrived in or in a plastic bag. Avoid the refrigerator, it can ruin the texture. For longer term storage, all of our baked goods freeze well for up to three months. You can store them in the freezer in their original packaging or, if they’ve been opened, double wrapped in plastic bags.
Zingerman’s Spiced Pecans
Made here in our kitchen, whole pecans toasted with butter, lots of freshly ground Tellicherry black pepper, Jamaican allspice, ground ginger, cloves and more. The nuts cluster together in little caramelly-spicy handfuls, making it way too easy to eat too many.
Spanish Chocolate Covered Figs
La Higuera is in the heart of fig country in Almoharín, Spain, and they make the best fig bon bons using Calabacita figs. Following the original family recipe, they puncture the bottom of each tree-dried fig and fill it to bursting with a boozy chocolate ganache spiked with a dose of brandy. Then they enrobe the figs in a silky-smooth layer of chocolate. Individually wrapped, these treats will last for months.
Zingerman’s Handmade Candy Bar
Zingerman’s Candy Manufactory focuses on traditional American candy. Each sweet treat takes days to make. The nougat and caramel are still made by hand, and the nuts are roasted in house for the freshest flavor and the most control over salt and roast levels. There are no preservatives added so you’ll want to eat the candy bar within a couple months for best texture and flavor.
Zingerman’s Coffee
Zingerman’s Coffee Company roasts this signature blend of Guatemalan and Ethiopian beans just for Zingerman’s Mail Order. It makes a sweet, clean brew, brightened with fruit flavors and having a hint of cocoa. The aroma is slightly floral with the fruit flavors show up in distinct aromas of blue and blackberry. The tannins are very mild, they don’t leave your mouth feeling scorched after drinking a cup. Shipped whole bean.
Zingerman’s Potato Chips
Zingerman’s potato chips are made by Great Lakes Potato Chip Company in Traverse City and flavored with our custom spice blends. Superior spices paired with small batch potato chips are really, really good!
Ann Arbor Tortilla Chips
Ann Arbor Tortilla Company makes great tortilla chips by making great corn tortillas from scratch. They start with corn grown by local farmers here in Michigan that they steep in water mixed with calcium hydroxide for 12-15 hours. This steeping is part of the traditional process of turning corn into flour. It makes it easier to grind and releases nutrients locked inside the kernels. After grinding into flour, they mix it with water to make the dough that goes into the special Mexican-made tortilla machines. The tortillas are then baked in an oven, cooled, then cut into triangles, fried in sunflower oil, salted, and bagged for future salsa dipping and nacho making all over the country.
Fundidora Salsa
This Salsa Fresca is made with fresh tomatillos, white onions, cilantro, serrano chiles, and sea salt. It’s fresh-tasting and vibrant with just the right amount of spice to be flavorful while still being mild and approachable.
Salami from Red Bear Provisions
Made with humanely sourced meat and traditionally cured by our friends at Red Bear Provisions in Illinois. Hours or even days at warmer temperatures won’t harm it a bit. But once it arrives, it’s best to keep it refrigerated to store it for longer.
Italian Taralli Olive Oil Crackers
Taralli crackers look like tiny bagels, about the size of a quarter. They’re made with wheat and olive oil and they’re crunchy and flaky and they practically melt in your mouth as you eat them.
Half a pound of artisan cheese
The cheddar from Pineland Farms is everything we love in a New England style cheddar. It’s a great snacking cheese, with a creamy texture and hearty, savory flavors. It can last in the fridge unopened for weeks.
Marcona Almonds
Spanish Marcona almonds are distinctly softer and sweeter than other kinds of almonds with virtually no bitterness and a nutty, buttery flavor. These are peeled, lightly fried in sunflower oil and salted with sea salt. Crunchy and exceptionally snackable.
Moroccan Green Olives
Green Beldi olives from a family farm in Morocco are carefully picked by hand, then cured in water and sea salt.