christmas cookie jars

I saw this idea on Bakerella, where she filled glass jars with the dry ingredients for making delicious cookies to give as gifts. Hers were all pink and gorgeous.

I have been wanting to try it for ages, and thankfully was organised enough this year and bought jars and red and green M&M's before they were all sold out. 

These jars are truly easy peasy. I was a little shocked at just how easy! 

And, most importantly, they are DELICIOUS! Yes, of course I had to make a trial batch!

I adapted Bakerella's recipe a little bit, and I didn't add the chopped pecans at the top as she suggested, mostly because I didn't have any!

Ingredients:

1 1/3 cup plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp bicarb soda

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup rolled oats

3/4 cup m&m's

3/4 cup chocolate chips {i used dark chocolate chips}

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

chopped pecans {optional}

Layering:

Layer as follows ...

1. Flour {mixed with baking powder, bicarb and salt}

2. oats

3. m&m's

4. chocolate chips

5. brown sugar

6. white sugar

{as you can see, after the white sugar I added more oats and m&m's. I didn't use the full cup of oats for that first oat layer because I thought the jar was going to get too full. Turns out my jar is rather massive, and bigger than the 1L jar you would need.}

To Bake:

Add 

1 lightly beaten egg

1 tsp of vanilla

1/2 cup of melted butter

Mix with the dry ingredients. I found my cookie dough to be very separated, and really had to squish the ingredients together to form a ball. I think this was because of too many m&m's! 

Place on cookie sheet, press down ever so gently and just a little. Place into 180 degree oven for 10-12 minutes. {160 fan forced}.

They look even better after they're cooked. They are soft and chewy too. And oh so chocolatey!

mmmmmm...

I was impatient to take photos, these aren't done up with their ribbon and labels yet. I'll share those photos soon!