Boxes for fancy food and food gifts, so truffles, jam, olive oil, a cheese set, a little spice collection, the whole hamper. We do rigid or SBS board with dividers inside, because jars love to roll. Foil or embossing if you like, a window too, plus free design help and a digital proof first.
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Your small-batch jam already tastes great. The hard part is making it look like it’s worth twelve bucks, and that’s where custom gourmet packaging boxes come in, for specialty food makers and delis, gift basket people, and the corporate gifting teams who cram five nice things into one box every December.
Mixed stuff is the real problem. One box might hold a glass jar, a tin, a bag of nuts and a little bottle of oil, all different heights and weights, and if they’re just sitting loose in there they clonk into each other the first time anyone picks it up.
One chocolate bar or a single box of truffles? An SBS folding carton does the job, honestly, add matte lamination and a foil logo and it looks the part. Hampers are different. For a mixed set we’d go rigid, either a lift-off lid or a magnetic flap, since it feels like a real present and it won’t sag under three jars of chutney. Very farm-shop brand? Then kraft, not gloss.
Anything touching the board directly, cookies or fudge or naked chocolates, we’d put in glassine or a liner first. Otherwise you get grease spots on the box, and sometimes the food ends up tasting faintly of cardboard (not great for a gift). Most of our gourmet clients do this already, to be fair.
An insert. That’s the fix.
You send us the jar diameter and the bottle height and the tin size and we cut a cardboard insert with a hole for each one, putting the heavy glass low and near the middle so that when someone lifts the box by one end it doesn’t tip and slide, and if one bottle is way taller than the rest we step the insert down so the lid isn’t pushing on its cap.
Oh, and leave a finger gap. A round jar jammed into a tight hole is maddening, and nobody wants to turn a gift box upside down at the dinner table to get the honey out.
Orders pile up before the holidays, Mother’s Day and the end of the business year. Our standard production is 10 to 12 business days after you approve the proof, but samples and artwork changes eat time, so start about a month earlier than you think. Rush production is available on request if you’re cutting it close.
Corporate clients? They’ll often want their logo next to yours, or a printed card tucked in the lid, and a second logo shuffles the whole layout around so tell us early. A trick we like a lot is a plain lid with a printed belly band, so the band changes for each client and the custom gourmet packaging boxes underneath stay exactly the same.
For chocolate formats, see truffle boxes and chocolate packaging boxes. Our gift box sizes guide helps with hamper dimensions, and the broader food and beverage range has the rest.
Wrapped stuff, yes, go ahead. Anything unwrapped or a bit oily, we’d wrap it or line the box.
Heavy jars, or a box people will keep for their spare buttons afterwards? Go rigid. A single item headed for a shop shelf is fine in a folding carton.
Sure, on the lid or on the front. It’s lovely on truffles, macarons, bright candy, anything pretty.
Brands ordering these often look at custom cupcake boxes, custom bakery packaging boxes, custom cake boxes with logo and custom candy boxes as well. You can see the full range in bakery packaging boxes.
