Happiness in a Jar

While I was planning my girlfriend's Birthday gift I was sure I wanted to make something special, personal and fun! 

 

I have always been fascinated by gifts in jars and have wanted to try making them because they are amusing, fun and look amazing all making them perfect gifts! I love the idea so much that I would love to occasionally make a gift jar for myself!

 

I luckily came across an amazing idea featured on bakerella of ‘Cowgirl Cookies’ in a jar which included a yummy cookie mix with traditional oats, chocolate chips, pecans and candy and instantly knew that this was the best gift for my friend.

I made what I called ‘Happiness in a Jar’, where I used the basic recipe with a few tweaks. I used a simple quart jar with 4 smooth sides so that I could decorate the jar and add tags where required.

I tried the following recipe and added the same to the jar starting from Layer 1 at the bottom:

 

• Layer 1: 1 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• Layer 2: 1 teaspoon baking powder
• Layer 3: 1 teaspoon baking soda
• Layer 4: 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Layer 5: 1 cup traditional oats
• Layer 6: 3/4 cup mixed m&ms
• Layer 7: 3/4 cup dark chocolate chips
• Layer 8: 1/2 cup brown sugar
• Layer 9: 1/2 cup white sugar
• Layer 10: 1/3 cup chopped pecans

 

Once added to the jar, it was packed and added a tag to it with intrusions for baking the cookie which were as simple as:

To the ingredients add 1 beaten egg + 1/2 cup melted butter + 1 teaspoon vanilla essence; mix well and roll the dough into 1 inch balls; place it on a baking sheet in a preheated 350 degree oven and bake for 10-12 minutes.

 

On the other side of the tag I wrote some fun instructions like:

If you use hands to mix contents, quickly lick off the yumminess before someone sees you, smile when you mix and bake to make the cookie lip-smacking and sharing is absolutely voluntary but will add more happiness.

 

 

After a few stickers on two sides and a bright cover over the jar, it became a perfect gift for my girlfriend. it looked very pretty and elegant and additionally was very simple to make ( for someone unknown to cooking, simplicity was very important) 

 

 

 Conclusion : The gift was most appreciated and I did receive a big hug *smiles* but the cookies must hace turned out so good that they never reached me and I'm still waiting!!!

 

Do let us know if you have any good gift in a jar idea or you would like to create interesting ones and we can work on them together.

 

- Shamoni

 

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