Pecan Pie Muffin Mix : Holiday Gift Mixes Continue!
These pecan pie muffins have been a huge hit on Southern Plate. I’ve had so many readers email me singing their praises that I thought they’d make the ideal gift mix for the holidays! For this packaging, I went for a more “retail” type look and had a good bit of fun making the tags! On the backside your recipient will find instructions on how to use the mix to make their own delicious pecan pie muffins!
If you’d like to see the original tutorial and recipe on how to make the muffins themselves, please visit this link. And remember: At the end of my gift mixes series, I am going to draw one name at random from among those who commented on the mix posts and send them a box filled with one of my finished mixes from each tutorial! (You can comment on each post for more entries!)
You’ll need: Plain flour, brown sugar, and chopped pecans.
Place all three ingredients in a bowl.
Stir it up until well mixed.
For this tutorial, I chose to place mine in quart sized freezer bags. You can package it like I am doing or use one of the packaging ideas from my other mix tutorials (I have links to them at the bottom of this post for your convenience), or come up with your own of course!
Look at this photo if you wanted one more reason why NOT to buy name brand. The Ziploc brand bag won’t work for this packaging idea because they have way too much writing on their bag for us to be able to hide it. The bag on the left is the cheapest, a store brand. Its going to work just fine.
Print off your handy dandy bag headers which can be found here.
(Don’t worry, part of the tag is supposed to be upside down..)
Trim those up and separate the sheet into two pieces.
Fold over the top of your bag and tape that down.
Once you have your two headers cut apart, crease them and fold them, then place them face down and put insert the top of your bag into the fold. What I did was let the front of my tag hang down longer than the back. The back has all of the instructions on how to use the mix. Isn’t that handy?
I was going to staple my header onto the bag but I couldn’t find my stapler. 
So instead I just taped the top of the bag on the inside of the header and then used tape to secure it on the outside as well. You can use either method, I kinda like it better with the tape now that I see it that way.
See, here is where I folded the back down and taped it to the bag…
Then I turned it over and put a little tape at the bottom on the front, too. Look how nice that looks!
Our finished mix! All ready for gift giving!
Pecan Pie Muffin Mix
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More mixes coming soon!
I hope y’all are having a great weekend! We are doing our family Thanksgiving tomorrow and I can’t wait to bring you more of the dishes we’re going to have for that! My grandmama made my absolute favorite thing on earth – HER Special fruit salad!!! She only makes it at Thanksgiving and Christmas and it is the one thing I look forward to most! My husband and I both gorge ourselves on it! I’ll have that tutorial up here for you soon so you can have it for yourself!
Thank you for taking the time to read Southern Plate! If you enjoy it, please tell a friend!
Thank you for taking the time to read Southern Plate! If you enjoy it, please tell a friend!
Have a wonderful evening!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
Have a wonderful evening!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
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Oh! My mother would love this one =]
Perfect Christmas gift to add to my friends gift baskets!! Thank you!!
These sound yummy. I will have to try them.
Oh YUM! I think I have to make gift baskets full of these mixes as gifts!!!
I absoluetly LOVE these mixes and this pecan pie muffin mix looks so delicious and fun to give. I’m making my list of all these mixes to give as gifts! I’m so glad I found this website!
I love this…it’s such a clever and different mix. Makes making the muffins much easier and more appealing.
Christy, You are making this gift giving thing so easy for me this year. Thank you so much.
Christy, you just get more clever all the time. And I love the labels you are making for us too.
another good one Christy. I made these muffins and your right they are good. Perfect for gift giving. Keep it up girl Ü
I LOVE this one the best so far!!! I am so making and giving this out to friends this year.
This looks like a keeper. I do believe the neighbors will be getting this one.
Pecan Pie Muffins. yummy!!!!!! Love muffins and this one looks like a keeper.
I have to try these very soon, they sound so good.
And the mix will be great for gifts, thanks so much..
Brenda
This is fantastic! Thank you so much!
I usually give things like this in Ball jars, they keep better. I’ll print off the labels on label paper and stick it to ‘em
Thank you so much for sharing these recipes! I usually just do gift baskets of candy and cookies, but I think I’m going to do some mixes in this year’s selections.
Drat – and I just bought tins for the Beignet Mix. Well at least I’m ahead of the game for next year. The pecan pie muffins taste great and this is a great idea – both to make and the way you packaged it.
I am SO glad I stumbled upon this website. I don;t like to cook. LOL However I have found lots of inspiration from this site with a PIC of how things as supposed to be done. LOL I even made those yummy fried potatos last night for dinner and they were a huge hit. So now I am going to put some of these gift mix recipes to use for friends and teachers and school bus drivers. Yummy!! Thank you for such a wonderful website.
I never knew there was such a thing as Pecan Pie muffins! They sound delicious and I can’t wait to try them ;o)
This looks good and so easy!
I like that packaging idea – it does look a bit more commercial, so it’s even more special when they realize that it’s homemade!
I love this idea. It will be great for gifts this season.
thanks so much!
I REALLY have to try this one. It sounds easy and delicious!
I’ve had this recipe for a long time but never thought about doing it as a mix for a gift basket. Thanks for the great idea!! I just finished making one to take to my sister who is hosting Thanksgiving this year.
Jody
love this mix. i think it’s the easiest one yet! thanks for sharing
I made these yesterday. They are so easy and soooo good. Thank you so much. I love your site.
I totally may have to pick this one for my daughter to do for family gifts!
Oh so easy and cute – thank you!!
Enjoying these “gift” bags! I will definitely have to try this one.
I have to agree…this looks like a keeper. Can’t wait to try it.
i’ve actually purchased gourmet mixes in this very flavor. thanks for the the receipe. i know they’ll be yummy.
That is an awesome way to give gifts for holidays. wish I got something like that:)
You have given me the hope of actually giving gifts this year!! I was trying to think of something cheap, homemade and simple that people would actually appreciate and this is it!!
Thank You SO much!!
THANK YOU for such a wonderful idea! I am off to check out the rest of your gift mix posts (and get your blog into my Feed Reader NOW!)
I love your ideas and plan on putting together some of your mix ideas. Thank you for sharing….this is a great project for my whole family to get involved in…a true holiday spirit lifter!!!
This is such an easy to put together mix. I love it. Thanks.
I really want to try this recipe, with all the rain we have been having I have been behind on picking up the pecans in the back yard. This gives me reason to get busy and get out there.
now i have to look up the fruit salad, I have been looking for a particular FROZEN FRUIT SALAD my GM used to make (now deceased) with condensed milk, this wouldn’t be it would it?
This sounds so good, thanks for sharing…
We made these muffins and brought them to work. They did not last long. This is going to be a great gift for the holidays so everyone gets a chance to make them without me doing all of the cooking.
Christy, love your website and cookbook! I’ve already made the Pecan Pie twice…it’s so good!! These muffins look delicious, too.
I’ve made these! They are too die for!
I’m making this for my mom! I think she would love it, and with her health issues it would be a perfect gift. Thanks again for a wonderful idea!
Mmmm Love Pecans!
These are THE BEST when they are made up! Try them and give them.
I would love to get this as a gift!! Sounds yummy…
These muffins are great. I made up a bunch for Christmas gifts for my co-workers. Also my wife’s co-workers
Ooooooo I am making these! My favorite pie in the whole wide world in a muffin!
This is a great idea, I made them and they were gone the first day LOL, thank you or all the great ideas, and recipes, I love your site
Dolores
Yum! These will go to my sisters-in-law… they all enjoyed pecan pie at Thanksgiving… so close, and so easy!
Made these for dessert tonight – 2nd recipe I made from this site today. My family is really enjoying all these fabulous meals!
I will SO be gifting these this year!!!!!
sounds good
I’ve already made the muffins. This gift mix is going to go over so well with so many people. The first one is for my new daughter in law who is starting to learn how to cook. Actually, since she is still a student, my son will probably get the opportunity (grins) to create these himself. I always told him he would be glad some day when he had to cook himself. He told me in college that they just went out to eat, ordered pizza or lived on Top Ramen. He said he didn’t even need to know how to cook. Then he got married! Now he has to cook all the time!
what is absolutely hilarious to me is that my yankee french canadian grandmother used to make these and called them my great grandmas southern muffins (she was from arkansas)…………
GO FIGURE……….
these are super for bake sales!
I can’t wait to try these mixes. My family usually tries to give away small gifts to friends and family at Thanksgiving. These would make a wonderful gift. Thank you!
I love the idea of making these mixes for gift giving. I do have a request though. Is it possible to get the tags without the Christmas graphic? I would love to make these for gifts for other gift giving opportunities and the Christmas graphic makes that impossible.
Thanks, Cathy
Hey Cathy!
Much as I would love to make all occasion tags, I just don’t have the time. It is on “the list” though!
In the meantime, you are welcome to print out mine as a guide and make your own using Word or Publisher- or your favorite program.
Gratefully,
Christy
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