What do you think of my etiquette: Do you mind if I regift my spam on to you (read before getting angry)?

Question

According to an About.com newletter, regifting is sometimes acceptable, but not if done out of laziness or dislike for the recipient (no regifted pencil sets). I am too lazy to go on a diet/invest in the product, but steamed puddings are awesome in the winter.

Anna Olson's Sticky Toffee Puddings

Ingredients:

Sticky Toffee Sauce
6 Tbsp unsalted butter 90 ml
1 cup SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend 250 ml
2 tsp ground cinnamon 10 ml
2 Tbsp orange juice 30 ml
2Tbsp rum 30 ml
3 Tbsp whipping cream 45 ml

Pudding:
1 3/4 cups pitted dates, about 10 ounces (300 g) 400 mL
2 cups orange juice 500 mL
1 tsp baking soda 5 mL
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 300 mL
1/2 tsp baking powder 2 mL
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 2 mL
1/2 tsp ground ginger 2 mL
1/2 tsp fine salt 2 mL
6 Tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature 90 mL
3/4 cup SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend 180 mL
3 large eggs

Directions:

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Preheat oven to 350 ºF (180 ºC) and grease and flour eight 5-ounce (150 g) ramekins and place them in a baking dish.

For sauce, melt butter and SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Once bubbling, add cinnamon, orange juice and rum and return to a simmer, stirring. Remove from heat and stir in cream. Spoon 2 Tbsp (30 mL) of sauce into each ramekin and reserve rest of the sauce to serve with puddings.

Roughly chop dates and simmer in orange juice, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Let cool while preparing batter.

Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and salt. In a separate bowl, cream butter and SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend until light. Add eggs one at a time, stirring well after each addition.Add flour mixture alternately with date mixture, stirring well after each addition, starting and ending with flour.Spoon batter evenly between prepared ramekins.Pour boiling water around ramekins

No s on puddings

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Cheers!

Thanks for all the answers up to now!

Answer 1

That actually sounds pretty good. If all regifts were like that, I'd welcome them. But substitute the Splenda for the real stuff. If you're gonna make something fatty, why ruin it with something healthy?! lol.

Answer 2

I don't really think that you are regifting. You are using components to make something special that took time and effort, for someone. That's like if I was given a paint set for my birthday, and gave a painting to someone later as a gift.
Many times I am appreciative of the gifts that took more effort, rather than more money.

Answer 3

Sounds delicious.

Answer 4

Weird. Just weird.

Answer 5

Splenda will kill you, eventually.

Answer 6

What??