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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks.  Our family's favorites were a lady who made a German stollen and another who made these yummy zucchinni mini loafs.

My cookie is a variation on a heath almond cookie with a few very secret ingredients added :)  One year I gave it to the UPS driver and he returned the next day to thank me for them.  The following year he asked around November if I was going to be giving them out for gifts again that Christmas too, lol.  My other baked goods are mediocre and inconsistant, so I stick with the one that actually works.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think homemade sweets are among the best gifts for teachers. I've gotten more-thoughtful thank-you notes for my shortbread rounds than for anything store-bought I have ever given a teacher. When I was growing up, patients gave my dad, a surgeon, all sorts of homemade cakes, cookies, and candies for the holidays, and we loved them, even looked forward to them. I guess there are two kinds of people in this world: those who like to receive homemade sweets as presents and those who don't.[/quote]

My mom was a teacher, and the entire family looked forward to homeade gifts.  We would get really excited the years she had one of the siblings from the families whose mom had a famous specialty (probably like your shortbread rounds).  Like you, I have a signature cookie and I have had teachers ask for the recipe, tell me that they finished them off in the car on the way home, etc.  It probably depends on the quality of the baked goods.  That cookie is the only one I get that response from, so it is the only homeade item I gift.

Although she was always very grateful and gracious when receiving gifts, the items that my mom did not care to receive were the candles, ornaments, trinkets, etc.

Restaurant gift cards were no good if they were from more expensive places where she would have to spend extra money to use the gift certificate, but gift cards to inexpensive places like Panera or Starbucks were highly appreciated.

Gifts for the class (supplies, stickers, books) were very, very welcome.
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Thanks for sharing. Lovely to read about your family's looking forward to the homemade treats from your mother's students. I'm the one who posted up-thread about her surgeon dad's patients and the wonderful treats they would send. My very favorite was the tin of fruitcake cookies from not a patient but his office receptionist. My dad passed away last year, and the holidays will not be the same.

You signature cookie must be really good. May I ask what cookie it is? Though my signature is the shortbread round, I am always on the lookout for another good thing to bake for gifts. [/quote][/quote]

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