Challah Varieties for Mishloach Manot

Challah is a chief content of Mishloach Manot – the gifts of foods and other goodies given to our friends and relatives on the day of Purim. Challah is braided bread, which seems delightful by its mere appearance. And you can choose to either prepare or purchase truly numerous varieties of challahs to fill in your Purim pack of gifts. 
A superb idea to offer a challah bread in a Mishloach Manot basket of gifts is to create a challah basket. To make this kind of challah, a utensil is brought into use as a base. To start with, the dough is given a flat shape by rolling it to form the circular base of the challah basket. Next bands of 1 inch width are formed from the dough. At first some of these strips are kept perpendicularly along the outer side of the pot with their one tip joined with the base earlier made atop the pot’s base. After the entire exterior side of the pot is coated with the strips, some other longer strips are woven within them one by one, commencing from the base towards the top. 
After this is completed, the upper ends of the vertical bands keep hanging unequally, which are trimmed with the help of a sharp bread knife. The border of the basket can be formed taking another big band or also with yet another slender braided ribbon to turn it more classy. Likewise you can create a handle of a braided challah for the basket. This handle is attached with the basket using toothpicks. When you pack the basket, with several foods and other things like cookies, fruits and chocolates, it will become a magnificent Mishloach Manot gift. One more splendid plan is to form a challah napkin holder. 
To create this, initially a challah flower is formed by taking two dough rolls and twisting them together and fusing their both ends. This makes a circle made of the two rolls. Then a small portion of an aluminum foil is given the shape of a circle and placed at the center of this flower, with its external side buttered. This flower is then baked with the aluminum foil ring in its middle. After it is baked, we can place a napkin of paper or cloth in the middle aperture, formed by the aluminum foil. In the Mishloach Manot pack of gifts, you can offer this challah together with a napkin already placed in it. You can choose to even insert a flower upright in the middle of the napkin cone, to make it more charming. 
You are free to even make a mixture of Hamantash and challah by making a triangular challah and filling it with tasty Jewish foodstuffs, like dry fruits, chocolate, cheese, caramel many others. Challah breads look utmost yummy because of their fresh lustrous exterior and hence many kinds of challahs make appropriate Mishloach Manot gifts.