Massachusetts - Food Gifts

Cape Cod Specialty Foods -- Sagamore

Cape Cod Specialty Foods features the highest quality chocolates, home-made fudge, and a variety of authentic regional confections. Their specialties are Bog Beans (chocolate-covered cranberries), Ja Mocha Beans (chocolate covered organic espresso beans), Jim Bob Willies (chocolate covered, butter toffee encrusted, roasted Virginia peanuts), Bangor Blues (chocolate covered blueberries) and Cape Cod Fudge. Corporate and individual gift assortments are available. Information: 508-888-7099

Dancing Deer Baking Company -- Boston

Dancing Deer products are known for their straight-up delicious taste, innovation, artful but simple packaging and pure, high quality ingredients. Impressive cookie towers, holiday tins, cookies shaped in gingerbread house kits and gingerbread men, reindeer, stars, Christmas tree lights, assorted specialty cookie samplers and corporate gifts. Their products are all-natural, baked from scratch and kosher. Information: 888.699.DEER

Dennis Port General Store – Dennis Port

This Cape Cod business offers delicious specialty foods featuring Robert Rothschild Farm favorites, Cape Cod made gourmet chocolates and provisions, and its own line of jams, jellies, condiments, baking mixes and more. There are also plenty of non-food gift items with a Cape Cod theme. How about this: Lobsterman's Cool Kiss Lip Balm. Information: 508-394-3953

Fancypants Bakery -- East Walpole

Fancypants specializes in 100 percent nut-free cookies. Beautifully decorated hand-crafted cookies for all occasions. Gift collections for Thanksgiving and Christmas are especially colorful and adorable. This is a fun and memorable for the kids in your life (your own and others’) who worship the cookie monster. Information: 508-660-1140

Millie’s Pierogis -- Chicopee Falls

Handmade, fully cooked pierogi – an Eastern European dish consisting of boiled dumplings stuffed with varying ingredients -- are filled with tempting fillings like potato and cheese, cabbage and potato and onion. Millie's pierogi have been fully boiled and need only to be warmed in order to serve. Whether you prefer them steamed, baked, grilled, or deep-fat fried, the hand-pinching and pre-cooking eliminate the possibility of breakage, providing a delectable dish with ease. Made to order and shipped from Chicopee Falls. Information: 800-743-7641

New England Baklava Company

Andrea Mason, the chef and owner of The New England Baklava Company, has created a unique New England-style Baklava using cranberries and maple syrup instead of honey. The bakers build their baklavas with layer upon layer of buttered phyllo dough, then add a mixture of chopped walnuts and dried cranberries. It's baked to a perfect golden brown and then they drench the baklava in a sauce made with New England maple syrup. Among the varieties are cranberry baklava, ginger walnut cranberry baklava, white chocolate walnut cranberry baklava and dark chocolate walnut cranberry baklava. Information: 978-697-8527

New England Cranberry -- Lynn

Founded in Massachusetts in 1994, New England Cranberry has created many nice gift boxes and samplers for the giving season. With all this red going on - cranberry chutney and jellies, cranberry sauce, cranberry candies, cranberry chocolates, cranberry salsa and cranberry maple syrup will look beautiful on the holiday table this year. Information: 800-410-2892

Notting Hall, The Place For Tea -- Boston

Notting Hall selects only the finest loose leaf teas available from tea plantations around the world. The Hall’s teas are listed by type, and within those categories they offer rare, super premium and premium teas. To further enhance your tea experience, they also provide all the accoutrements from teapots, cups and saucers, to tea cozies, infusers and strainers, as well as imported foods, books and gifts for every occasion. The Tea Time Assortment Basket, for example, includes three teas with a single serving stainless spoon infuser, after-tea mints, and rock candy sweetener, all in a beautiful wooden flower basket. Information: 866-361-8327

Out of the Blue Gift Baskets -- Lynn

A wide variety of beautifully filled holiday baskets are available this season from Out Of The Blue Gift Baskets. The baskets are not pre-made, but assembled when they get your order, thus assuring fresh product and special attention. Custom baskets include delicious and colorful products like sparkling cider, cookies, chocolates, crackers, cheese and much more. Information: 781-581-5462

Pemberton Farms -- Cambridge

Pemberton offers a large selection of fruit baskets, gourmet gift baskets, smoked meats, homemade chocolates, candies, gift towers, coffee cakes, roasted nuts, cheeses, New England Style gift baskets and lots more. Massachusetts Gourmet Basket contains a generous selection of Massachusetts specialty foods, like salt water taffy, sparkling cider from Carlson Orchards, pecans from Carolyn's, Gourmet Mother's jam or jelly, genuine granola from Goddess Granola, smoothie booster from Thoreau Foods, honey from Reseska Apiaries, sweet and spicy nuts from Sampsons, cranberry bog frogs from Cape Cod Provisions, maple syrup in a maple leaf bottle from The Warren Farm, Italian almond crunch from Tre Noci, cranberry chutney from Coastal Classics, and milk chocolate covered cranberries from Cape Cod Provisions. This unique gourmet gift basket has it all. Information: 800-551-7327

Touch of Provence -- Concord

Beautiful selection of custom made baskets are made in Massachusetts, but in the old Provence tradition. Dijon mustards, extra virgin olive oil, olives, French Lavender spice rub, loose lavender tea, vinegars, 100 percent natural dressings, spices, oil & vinegar baskets, as well as jams, jellies and spreads are all available to fill a custom basket. Information: 877-683-6225