Homemade Cookies in a Jar

Materials:

• Quart Size Canning Jar with Lid
• Scrap of Fabric
• Ribbon
• Glue
• Paper
• A Recipe and Its Required Ingredients

Directions for Filling the Jar:

• Thoroughly wash and dry the jar and lid
• Gather the ingredients
• Fill the jar with the ingredients (we'll use Chocolate Chip Cookies)
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3/4 cup brown sugar (packed)
  • 3/4 cup white sugar
  • * chocolate chips
• Layer the ingredients in the canning jar in the order listed above. Try using a funnel to ensure ingredient go into the jar, not all over the counter. Use enough chocolate chips to fill the jar to the top. I prefer semi-sweet chocolate chips, but milk chocolate work just as well. Pack down all indredients.

The Tag

The tags give the receiver the other ingredients they must add and how to blend and bake them.

Chocolate Chip Cookies Printable Tag: This tag is from from familycrafts.about.com. The site provides other designs as well.

Should you like to create your own design it should say the following:

Chocolate Chip Cookies
1 cup butter or margarine softened
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 tsp. vanilla

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Thoroughly blend together the butter or margarine, the egg, and the vanilla. Empty jar of cookie mix into the butter mixture. Mix until completely blended. Drop teaspoons full of batter about 2 inches apart on cookie sheet. Bake for 8 - 10 minutes, or until lightly browned.

Decorating the Jar

• Adding the Fabric: Cut a circle out of the fabric that is 6 - 8 inches across. Place the round section of the jar's lid on the jar and center the fabric on that. Screw the other section of the lid in place to hold the fabric. Fluff out the fabric where it comes out from under the lid.
• Attaching the Recipe: Print out your choice of the printable recip card/gift tag that goes with the recipe you chose. Trim closely around the recipe and graphic. Put a small piece of scotch tape on the upper right-hand section of the 'Printable Gift Tag' recipe (right behind the top edge of the graphic). This is to give it a little extra strength. Use a hole puncher and make a small hole in the taped corner.
• Adorning thy Jar with Ribbon: Cut an approximate 3 foot piece of ribbon. You can also use 2 pieces of ribbon with colors that match the fabric. Thread the ribbon through the hole in the 'Printable Gift Tag' recipe. Wrap the ribbon around the metal of the jar lid and tie it into a bow. Secure in place with a small dab of glue behind the bow and in the back.

Relax and...Give

The gift is now ready to be presented to that special someone. Should he/she not like Chocolate Chip, try some of these other recipes, courtesy of Familycrafts.about.com. (We love them.)

• Chocolate Cookies
• Decorative Brownies
• Deluxe Candy Cookies
• Hot Homemade Cookies
• M & M Cookies
• Oatmeal Plus Cookies

*Thanks are due to Familycrafts.about.com for the use of their information.