Gifts in a Jar - Cookie Mixes

A Gift in a Jar is simply a homemade gift that is contained in a jar. It is an inexpensive gift made up bath salts, cookie ingredients, holiday beverage mixes, baking mixes or bean soup fixings layered in a decorative glass jar, a glass canning jar, or Mason jar.They make easy homemade Christmas gifts. Topped with a colorful fabric circle or a cross stitch design, and a gift tag, and attached instructions to help complete the mix, they're gifts in a jar!

Many people consider a Gift in a Jar to be a Food Craft and years ago it was mostly true. Out of financial necessity women would make their gifts. The easiest and most inexpesive way of doing this was to use mason jars, fill them with the dry part of the recipe, write instructions on what to add to complete the recipe and decorate the jar. Many times they add a spoon or tea towel to make the gift special.

Today we give these gifts, not out of necessity or need, but because we want to give a special gift, one from the heart. Nowdays it is considered more of a craft and has expanded to include such things as bath salts, drink mixes, mixes for pet treats, vinegars, and many more types of items. Not only that people are becoming more creative in their decorating of the jars. You can not only add fabric lid covers, you can also make a cross stitch designed lid cover, add lace, ribbons, charms, spoons, little tea towels, potholders, or even paint your own design theme.

Recipe and Instructions for Dry Ingredients for Jar

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butterscothch chips

1/2 cup crispy rice cereal

1 1/2 cups flour

3/4 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp allspice

1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed


1/2 cup butterscotch chips

1/2 cup rolled oats

1/2 cup sugar

Directions:

In large mouth jar, layer buttscotch chips, then crispy rice cereal.

Mix together flour, baking soda, baking powder and allspice and layer on top of crispy rice cereal.

Continue to layer ingredients in the order they appear under Ingredients.

Close with a tightly fitted lid.

Recipe and Instructions to Make Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter

1 egg

3 tbsp water

1 jar Butterscotch Cookie Mix

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream butter, add egg and water and cream together.

Stir in Butterscotch Cookie mix until well blended.

Drop onto ungreased cookie sheet by teaspoonfuls.

Bake for 12 minutes.

Remove from cookie sheets and cool on wire racks.

 

Ingredients and directions to make gift jar

Ingredients:

1 1/8 cup flour

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup oatmeal

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup light brown sugar, packed

1 cup dried cranberries

1/2 cup white chocolate chips

Instructions:

Combine flour, baking soda and salt and place 1/2 of the mixture in a wide mouth quart jar.

Layer oatmeal then rest of flour mixture.

Continue layering ingredients in the order they show on the recipe.

The only ingredient you need to pack down is the brown sugar.

Place a tight fitting cover on jar.

Ingredients and Directions to Make Cookies

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease cookie sheets.

Beat together butter, egg and vanilla until fluffy.

Add 1 jar of White Chocolate Cranberry Cookie mix and stir until well blended.

Drop dough by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheet and bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until edges begin to brown.

Remove from cookie sheet and cool on wire rack.

Ingredients and directions for jar mix

Ingredients: 

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 2 cups flour
• 1 cup butterfinger chunks

Instructions:
Mix together baking soda, flour and cinnamon.

Place into a quart jar, preferrably a wide mouth mason jar.

Next place brown sugar and pack down.

On top of that layer your white sugar.

Last but not least add you Butterfinger candy bar chunks.

Ingredients and directions to complete the cookie mix

• 1 jar Butterfinger Cookie Mix
• 1 cup soften butter
• 1 beaten egg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Beat butter until it is smooth using an electric mixer.

Add the egg and vanilla , and beat until they are combined.

In seperate bowl, pour in cookie mix jar ingredients and mix well.

Add the Butterfinger Cookie Mix to the butter/egg mixture and blend on low just until the cookie mix is just blended.

Shape cookie dough into 1 1/2" balls and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet.  Make sure you leave about 2" between each cookie for room to spread.

 Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until golden on the edges.

Remove from the oven, and cool on the cookie sheet for 2 minutes before removing to a cooling rack.