Easy homemade apple pie and pumpkin pie spices perfect for Holiday gifting with free downloadable printables.
Hey everyone! How was your Thanksgiving?! Lots of great food and even better company?
We had quite an unconventional Thanksgiving, but one of my favorites thus far. We’ve been traveling this week — we took a road-trip up to Vermont to visit the husband’s old stomping grounds. So last night our Thanksgiving dinner was at one of the only open places in town – an Ihop. Nothing like pancakes to replace turkey 🙂 The rest of the day was filled with a lot of great stories as the husband drove us around and reminisced. And I have to say, he’s totally made me fall in love with Vermont. I’m ready to move here!
Anyways, I’m back today with some more Christmas printables + recipes (and it’s officially Christmas time now so I don’t feel bad about posting these!)
- 4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- Pinch ground cloves
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Mix all of the spices together. Store in an airtight container.
Adapted from About Food
And, of course, you’ve got to have pumpkin pie spice! 🙂
This printable also includes a few extra designed labels in case you want to gift a whole basket of spices. There are labels for the two recipes on this post (apple pie and pumpkin pie spice), a label for cinnamon sticks, a label for a steakhouse rub, and a label for a hot chocolate mix (recipe coming soon!).
You can either print the labels on paper, cut them out, and attach with glue or double sided tape of some sort OR do label stickers. I opted for circle label stickers since that was easiest for me. If you are looking for the exact label paper I used, it can be found here. The jars were found at Target’s dollar spot. Then I tied some twine (found at a local craft store) around each of the jars. Easy and classy gift ready to go! 🙂
DOWNLOAD FREE PRINTABLES HERE
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 3/4 teaspoon allspice
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Mix all of the spices together. Store in an airtight container.
Adapted from AllRecipes
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Taylor @ Food Faith Fitness says
Is it weird that I am SO jealous that you Thanksgiving at IHOP? That place is my life.
I made my first turkey, and it turned out great 🙂 so that was awesome!
These printables are soooo cute, and I love homemade spices! Pinned!
marcie says
I’ve never been to Vermont but I so want to go! These printables are adorable, and I love giving homemade gifts. Pinned!
The Blonde Chef says
I love that you guys went to Ihop! That sounds like so much fun. And these printables are just, the cutest! Glad you had a wonderful holiday, Chelsea!
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says
I love your idea of making homemade apple pie and pumpkin pie spice! I go through so much during this time of year, so having a homemade version is fantastic! Great printables, too! Hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving, Chelsea!
Kristi @ Inspiration Kitchen says
Love these handmade gifts Chelsea – and the labels are adorable!
Carla (@charliesue) says
What a gorgeous and useful gift! Bet it makes the house smell great too. 🙂
Mira says
Wonderful Christmas handmade gifts and printables ! The spices are so easy! Can’t wait to see what is next 🙂
Melanie @ Carmel Moments says
We had an unconventional Thanksgiving too. We went to the beach for the first time! Had a blast though.
Glad you had a great holiday. And you can’t ever go wrong with pancakes, right?
Love this simple gift. I’m sure it would be welcomed by whoever receives it.
Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Nora @ Savory Nothings says
Wow, these look so gorgeous! I love giving away spice blends!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
I so want to go to Vermont. These photos are gorgeous and I always need spices like this this time of year!
Jennie @themessybakerblog says
I so want to move to Vermont. I’ve been trying to convince Squirrel, but it’s a no go 🙁 These are absolutely adorable. I love homemade spices.
Shikha @ Shikha la mode says
Awww, I love all the cute ties and decorative wrappings! Do you buy it all online?
Jana Hixson says
I made the pumpkin pie spice to use in all the pumpkin recipes I was making for a bridal shower. I doubled the recipe and ended up using almost the entire thing in one weekend of baking! I love the taste of fresh ground nutmeg in it–it makes a huge difference! You can buy whole nutmeg in the spice section, and then grate it as needed with a zester. It’s a little expensive compared to ground nutmeg, but it’ll last a REALLY long time and is SO much better!
chelseamessyapron says
Way to make it work! Thanks for letting us all know all of that! I’m so glad you guys enjoyed! 🙂