Cookies in a Jar

I had been meaning to make these for a long time, so this last week we decided to jump right in. 

We chose four different recipes for the cookies. The instructions explain how to pack quart size Mason jars with all the dry ingredients for a batch of cookies. Then you attach the instructions for the recipient to add the liquid ingredients and the jar's contents to whip up a quick batch of cookies.

The instructions specifically say to use wide mouth jars, but there were none available at the store, and so we had to work a little harder to pack the ingredients in the regular jars. 

The recipes tell you to layer the ingredients and pack them in in the order listed on the recipe. It makes the jars look really pretty when the layers are obvious.

We chose a candy bar cookie recipe, two varieties of oatmeal, and an M&M's cookie.

Rebekah chopped the Nestle Crunch bars.

We packed pretty gift boxes with one each of the four recipes and then stuffed tissue paper between them so they wouldn't knock together during delivery. We could have filled the extra space with something that looked better, but I just ran out of time. 

Here's the instruction book we used. I also have a copy of one for "Bars & Brownies." We may make a combination from both books next year. It was a lot of fun. And the girls enjoyed helping. We cranked them out pretty quickly once all the ingredients were all assembled. It would be great to make some of these jars to have on hand for little gifts during the year.