Cookies in a Jar Recipes

Cookies in a jar make great Christmas, or birthday gifts. They are ideal for co-workers, family, friends, or teachers. They are also time savers when you make them for yourself. If you prepare these mixes ahead of time, you can have fresh baked cookies quickly and easily!

Cookies in a jar recipes include all the dry ingredients for a cookie recipe. Usually the dry ingredients are layered for extra appeal. The jar is then decorated with fabric, ribbons, raffia, or seasonal décor. The last but most important step is to add the instructions for finishing and baking the cookies in a jar recipe!

For Adding M&M's, Chips, Raisins or other Treats

This is a basic jar cookie mix to which you can add nuts, m&m's, chocolate or peanut butter chips, raisins, or anything else your heart desires.

• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup all-purpose flour

Instructions:

1. Layer the ingredients into a 1-quart wide mouth canning jar in the order listed.
2. Top it off with 1 cup of chips, nuts, M&Ms or whatever you wish to add to your cookies.
3. Attach a gift tag with the following directions for baking:

The most important thing to remember when you give make-ahead cookie mixes is to remember to include the tag! The tag tells the recipient how to prepare the premade mix. Without the preparation instructions, the recipient will not know how to use the mix. Have some fun dressing up the tag and the jar to make the gift special.

in a Jar

These are bar style cookies that taste and smell like pumpkin pie. You can make ahead the mix for the pumpkin pie cookies and place it in a jar as a fall gift for Halloween or Thanksgiving.

To Prepare:

Add 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) cold butter or margarine

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened

3 eggs

1 (15-ounce) pumpkin

1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice

Pumpkin Pie Cookies in a Jar: Make Ahead Mix Recipe

Special Christmas Recipes

If the words "Christmas Cookies" invokes images of gingerbread men decorated in colorful icing, then this cookies in a jar recipe is for you!

Gingerbread Christmas Cookies in a Jar

Another common way of making Christmas cookies in a jar is to use the M&M recipe above and use Christmas colored M&Ms.

How to Make Any Cookie Recipe an "In a Jar" Recipe

You can take any of your favorite cookie recipes and convert them to "in a jar" premade mixes by following the steps in this how-to.

How to Convert Any Recipe to Layered "In a Jar" Gift Recipes

If you like making cookies in a jar as gifts, why stop there? You can also make breads, pie crusts and cakes in a jar. Try this recipe for

Blueberry Muffins in a Jar.

Recycled Crafts

Here is a recycled craft for dressing up your cookies. An old sock (young girls socks work well) is embellished with jewels, beads, stickers or ribbons to create a jar cozie, adding more pizzaz to your homemade cookies in a jar gift.

More Information on Making a Sock Cozie