Cookies in a Jar Recipes

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 (PDF File)

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. Dress these cookies up with your favorite cookie ingredients.

Basic Cookie Mix in a Jar Recipe

For the oatmeal lover on your list try this oatmeal cookie mix. It comes with recipes for making cookies, or apple crisp.

Oatmeal Cookies in a Jar Recipe

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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.

For valentine's day, I recommend actually baking the cookies and putting them in the jar. Write cute sayings on the top of the sugar cookies with icing. "You are special," "Love," or "Sweetheart," will show you care. Sugar cookies made a great base for Valentine's day notes. You can use the same methods for decorating the jar shown in this lens.

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

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 recipent wil not know how to use your mix.

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.

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