13 Cookie-in-a-Jar Recipes That Solve All Your Gift-Giving Dilemmas (2024)

FAQs

How do you give cookies as a gift? ›

Wrap like candy.

Stack the cookies and roll tightly in cellophane, then just secure both ends with some festive ribbon. You can also place the cookies in plastic gift bags with the sealed end cut open instead.

Cookie jars are versatile. You can use them to organize your kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, garage, laundry, and almost every room in your home.So, if you have a spare jar on your kitchen shelf or cabinet, don't let it lie idle.

In the kitchen, these jars are perfect for storing coffee, coffee supplies, snacks and other kitchen supplies. In the laundry room, these jars are great for storing powdered laundry soap, fabric softener sheets and all of the little stain remover sticks.

The Cookie Jar Method is a mental resilience exercise where you metaphorically fill a 'cookie jar' with past successes, positive experiences, and personal triumphs. Whenever you face a challenge or need a boost of confidence, you reach into this jar for a 'cookie' – a reminder of your strengths and accomplishments.

Keeps Moisture Out and Prevents Mold

This helps to prevent mold and maintain freshness, which is especially important for those who make cookies in big batches! Make sure to purchase a cookie jar with an inner rubber seal to really keep your cookies tasty and fresh.

Decide how many cookies or pieces of fudge will make up a gift. Four is a good number to start with for an individual. Many cookie recipes, including my Hershey Kiss Cookie recipe, make 48 cookies. That's 12 potential gifts right there!

Individual Gifts

A small batch of 6-8 cookies is usually perfect. It's enough to show you care without overwhelming them with too many cookies. Imagine you baked some awesome chocolate chip cookies to give to your best friend. A handful of these delicious treats in a cute bag or box is a sweet and thoughtful gift.

Choose recipes that have a yield of at least 24 cookies, especially if you have many boxes to fill. For example, if you bake six different cookie recipes that all yield 24 cookies, you can pack six gift boxes with four of each cookie. Each box will make a bountiful gift of two dozen assorted cookies.

Becoming a prominent kitchenware item by the 1950s, around the introduction of premade cookie dough, cookie jars remained popular well into the 1990s. But even after being sidelined as seasonal holiday decor, broad adoration for ceramic cookie jars has never fully disappeared.

Cookie jars are utilitarian or decorative ceramic or glass jars often found in American and Canadian kitchens. In the United Kingdom, they are known as biscuit barrels or biscuit jars. If they are cans made out of tinplate, they are called biscuit tins.

Do cookie jars work? ›

Ironically, the worst way to store cookies is in a cookie jar without an airtight bag. (Yes, really.) They may look adorable on the counter, but despite their name, cookie jars are usually not fully airtight. Similarly, cake stands and other displays aren't great for storing cookies longer than a few hours.

Putting a slice of fresh white bread in the container with the cookies will help the cookies stay soft: fresh bread is moist, and that slice will give up its moisture for the greater good: keeping the cookies from drying out. We recommend white bread so that no flavor is transferred to the cookies.

Since moisture helps cookies stay soft and fresh, adding a slice of white bread into the container with cookies can help. The moisture from the bread slice transfers to the cookies, preventing them from getting dry. White bread is best for this hack so that no flavor is added to the cookies.

Jam Jars: Place the same colored cookie on top of the jam jar to fill it! After three cookies fall into the jar, the jar will explode! Waffle Iron: Create matches on top of waffle makers to remove the waffle irons, but be wary: Every time you make a match on a waffle iron, waffles will appear around the iron.

Here's a baker's trick you'll find in our new Monster Cookies recipe: Adding a piece of fresh white bread to the storage container will keep cookies from becoming hard or stale.