I am not sure how to put this because it falls under both.
Pintrest has taken do it your self gift to an extreme. Two years ago I stumbled upon the Mason Jar cookies and gave them away as gifts. I dont have my own pictures any more as that computer crashed. But here we go:
Find a cookie recipe, I will use Chocolate Chip Cookies cause thats always an easy go to
What you will need:
- Ball (Or any other jar)
- Fun Fabric
- Ribbon
- Fun Paper (I LOVE SCRAPBOOK PAPER!!) or plain white paper
- scissors
- hole puncher
- One Large Bowl
For the mason jar:
- 3/4 cups of granulated sugar
- 3/4 cups of packed brown sugar
- 2 1/4 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon on salt
- 2 cups of chocolate chips
- OPTIONAL-1 cup of chopped nuts
Needed to finish cookies:
- 1 cup of butter or Margrine softened
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla
- 1 egg
- Preheat Oven 375 degrees
- In a large bowl mix butter or margrine vanilla and egg
- stir in jar mixture
- make 1 inch round balls placing on cookie sheet about 2 inches apart
- Bake for 8-10 minutes
- Let cool for a couple minutes then remove from cookie sheet placing on a wire rack
Alright But now for the Mason Jars!!!
- In a large bowl mix together flour, baking soda, salt.
- Add mixture to jar filling about 1/3 of the way.
- Add chocolate chips on top of that
- Add the brown sugar on top of that
- Pack down using a spoon
- Add the rest of the white mixture
- Close the jar
You can choose to add the rest of the ingrediants and directions to the top of the lid by cutting the paper to fit the inside of the mason jar lid. You can creats a card and have the information inside of it.
There are a lot of different variations for this part of it. I created a card similar to this:
Now decorate that jar!!! This is where the fabric and ribbon comes in!
Here are some fun ways to decorate:
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