Gift baskets have become increasingly popular and diverse in the last several years. One can easily purchase unique gifts baskets with sinful treats, organic fruits or tasty wines that can be shipped all over the country. See the list below for ten delicious gift basket options for this holiday season.   

1. Gourmetgiftbaskets.com has an adorable blue and green wooden crate filled with sweet treats for just $49.99. The crate says Happy Holidays and is loaded with brownies, peanuts, shortbread cookies, and toffee. The chocolates are high quality Bavarian and Ghirardelli chocolates which the recipients will love.  

2. Ftd.com. features a striking peppermint tower for $29.99. This “basket” looks just like it sounds: it is 3 gift boxes towered on top of each other, each one decorated with red and white vertical stripes. Inside the boxes are peppermint themed treats such as white chocolate covered pretzels, dark chocolate peppermint bark squares, white chocolate peppermint pieces, and powdered almond butter cookies. The towers are elegantly connected with a big red bow.   

3. For $39.99 you can purchase the Holiday Cheer Basket at Christmas.giftbaskets.net. This is a red wicker tray with goodies piled high. Some of the goodies include gourmet coffee, chocolate, holiday petite mints, shortbread butter cookies, caramel corn and stone wheat crackers. There is also an adorable stuffed Santa peeking out among the goodies.   

4. If you want to spend a little more money and your recipient has a sense of humor, Giftbasketvillage.com offers a Caribbean Christmas basket for $111.00. The Caribbean theme includes key lime rum cake, Malibu rum chocolate bars, Belgian chocolate seashells, coconut patties, chocolate fish, Caribbean Crunch Cookies, and Key Lim white chocolate cookies, among other items. This basket would not be complete without a Santa dressed in a hat and flip flops sitting atop an inner tube. 

5. 1800flowers.com sells a Home for the Holidays gingerbread house for $54.99. It comes ready to eat with a gumdrop roof, candied shutters, and white icing for snow all over. The sign above the door says Season’s Greetings, but for an extra $5.00 it can be personalized to your choosing!  

6. 1800flowers.com also offers a wine basket called Vineyard Elegance, for $49.99, $69.99 or $99.99. The price difference is the difference between 1,2, or 3 bottles of wine. All three baskets come with chocolates and nuts, while additional items such as crackers and truffles will be included with the pricier options. A great basket for wine lovers and people who love to entertain! 

7. An inexpensive basket can be found Cherrymoonfarms.com for only $19.99. The basket is called Holiday Hugs and features a cuddly teddy bear wearing a snowflake sweater. The teddy bear is in a box surrounded by Lindt Lindor truffles, candy can balls and a chewy chunk cookie. The modest size of this gift makes it good for a single recipient.  

8. For the fruit lovers in your life, there is the Organic Holiday Favorite basket at cherrymoonfarms.com. This basket is $39.99 and includes all organic food items. It comes with 2 types of pears, 2 types of apples, honey roasted peanuts, tropical snack mix and jelly beans - yum! 

9. Festivebaskets.com has a seasonal basket called Season’s Greetings. It’s $97.95 and includes a BV Coastal bottle of full bodied Cabernet.  The basket also includes nuts, chocolates, cookies, crackers and cheese all from gourmet companies such as Godiva, Ghirardelli and Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.  

10. Winecountrygiftbaskets.com has an inexpensive option called the Rocky Mountain Tower. These elegant towered boxes only cost $19.95 and are filled with nuts, pretzels, toffees and cookies. This makes a great gift to bring to the host of the party.