Christmas Cookie Jars
Buying Christmas presents for people can get expensive, and also feel like a burden when you are just scraping by financially as a college student. This year, I wanted to think of how I could make gifts all my friends and family would like that would also be affordable.
One day, I was doing my laundry in our basement and saw a bunch of empty mason jars sitting in the corner. Turns out they were my roommates', but she didn't plan to reuse them. So my roommate and I bought a bunch of ingredients and stacked them on top of eachother in the jars. The recipe we made is Monster Cookies which include:Baking soda 1/2 tsp
Baking powder 1/2 tsp
Flour 1 c. flour
Oatmeal 1/2 c.
Brown sugar 1/2 c.
Sugar 1/2c.
MnMs 1/2 c.
To decorate these jars, we cut squares out of some fun cloth that my roommate was not using. Then we placed a piece of cloth under the lid of each jar, closed the lid, and tied a cute ribbon around it. For the wet ingredients, we made little cards to go with each jar that had the rest of the ingredients along with cooking instructions.
Wet ingredients:
Butter 1/2 c.
Egg 1 beaten
Vanilla Extract 1 tsp.
Mix everything together, roll into 1.5 inch balls and place on a cookie sheet, then bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees.
These jars are very fun to make, very affordable, and people love them! You can do all kinds of recipes in them, such as soup, scones, etc. Merry Christmas!
I love monster cookies! This is such a great idea. I've seen it done before with cookies, but never thought to do it with soups. Soups would be a great thing to give to a family who is going through issues and you want to bring them dinner.
ReplyDeleteI am going to make these. I wouldn't call myself much of a baker, but I know plenty of people who are so this would be perfect for them.
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