Onepot's baklava. [Photograph: onepot.wordpress.com]

For last week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge we asked you what kinds of homemade gifts you were baking, making, canning, and wrapping up to share with friends and family this year. Everyone offered amazing gift ideas. Here are some of our most creative and generous responses.

Onepot has made a holiday tradition out of baking baklava for friends and family. This year the lucky gift recipients will also be getting hazelnut, chocolate, black lava salt cookies.

Taking a cue from the smoking at home without a smoker thread over in Talk, dmcavanagh is smoking different cheeses.

therealchiffonade likes to give mixes as gifts complete with helpful instructions. She's also a big fan of these Tiny Holiday Tarts, which can be finished with a variety of fillings.

ec_washington likes to gift chocolate-covered pretzels and festive sugar cookies and this year these caramels will be thrown into the holiday rotation.

mcanna has been planning homemade gifts for a while—jars of kumquat-infused vodka and vanilla sugar are just about ready to make their way under the tree.

Cassaendra has been working out the kinks in her homemade soup mixes, which she plans to give away in lieu of gift cards. Dried beans and herbs are jarred, wrapped, and supplemented with instructions on adding salt and pepper to taste, as well as tomatoes or celery.

In Italy homemade gifts are the norm. daniela has made and received brined anchovies, Moroccan Lemons, and hot pepper jam. This year she's making lemon curd (with olive oil instead of butter).

Otabenga is an avid preserver. This year those on Otabenga's list can look forward to Quince, Ginger, and Pecan Conserve, Tomato Rhubarb Chutney, MMinNYC's homemade gifts. Super chocolatey brownies and Jacque Torres' chocolate-chip cookies have pleased the family in years past.

TheKitchenWitch and her stepson like to make homemade salsa around this time of year. Take a look at the spicy recipe over at The Kitchen Witch.

CatBoy's friends have a treat in store for them come Christmas morning: a slew of cookies accompanied by chili sauce, plum and pineapple jams, and Meyer lemon-infused sugar.

A big thank you to all of you who shared your homemade gift ideas for this week's Weekend Cook and Tell, your ideas were truly inspiring. Be sure to head over to Talk and read about next week's challenge: Your Favorite Cookbooks of 2009.