Coffee Gift Basket - more ideas, please!

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Hello everyone - I'm a long time lurker who's really enjoying reading this site and am bowled over by how many excellent and creative ideas you all seem to come up with!
Inspired by all the wonderful hamper threads, I've decided to put together a coffee themed gift basket for my hard-to-please-and-often-a-bit-grumpy father in law - he's notoriously difficult to buy for, bless, but he *does* like trying new types of coffee. He's gone through various phases - in the past we've bought him filter coffee makers, electric grinders, those plunger style glass coffee makers, and last Christmas my husband and I bought him the Senseo pod as he'd been eyeing one up longingly. I think he used it for about a week before he got bored with it!
So anyway .... it's a safe bet that he'll like anything coffee-related. I bought a lovely brown leather high-sided tray (£10 in Tesco last weekend!) and thought I'd fill it with a variety of small packs of different coffees (Whittards, maybe??), and perhaps add some home made coffee fudge or coffee/walnut biscuits wrapped in cellophane bags. Has anyone got any other good ideas for what else to add?
Thanks
C J
Inspired by all the wonderful hamper threads, I've decided to put together a coffee themed gift basket for my hard-to-please-and-often-a-bit-grumpy father in law - he's notoriously difficult to buy for, bless, but he *does* like trying new types of coffee. He's gone through various phases - in the past we've bought him filter coffee makers, electric grinders, those plunger style glass coffee makers, and last Christmas my husband and I bought him the Senseo pod as he'd been eyeing one up longingly. I think he used it for about a week before he got bored with it!
So anyway .... it's a safe bet that he'll like anything coffee-related. I bought a lovely brown leather high-sided tray (£10 in Tesco last weekend!) and thought I'd fill it with a variety of small packs of different coffees (Whittards, maybe??), and perhaps add some home made coffee fudge or coffee/walnut biscuits wrapped in cellophane bags. Has anyone got any other good ideas for what else to add?
Thanks

C J
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A nice mug and coaster
chocolate spoons
little coffee scented candle
sachets of sugar and those little cream/milk tubs
those little pastry type tubes you get when you buy a coffee from M&S
a little book to read while drinking the coffee
small bottle of whisky/brandy to make irish
I'll obviously wrap the finished tray in cellophane and ribbons, but I'm wondering about how to stop everything slipping around and ending up in a heap ..... do you think strategically-placed glue-dots might be the answer, or has anyone else any tips for how they present their gift baskets?
Bits of blue tack or line the tray with tissue paper and make little nests here and there in the paper to place things in, then gather up the cellophane covering quite snuggly.
I'm trying to be a good moneysaver
but I keep reading the bargains on the grabbit board !:rotfl:
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http://www.discountcoffee.co.uk/?gclid=CP6Iwbrrho8CFQPklAodISfluQ
The whisky laced fruit cake looks yum...and the wafer biscuits, mini marshmellows and lyons coffee I was thinking of adding to the hamper as well.
Diolch yn fawr, cymrugirl! I was thinking of making a coffee cake, but now I've seen that whisky laced fruit cake, I think it's going to have to be that instead! He'll love it.
Good luck, and welcome to MSE, I love it :j