{"id":9435,"date":"2009-12-09T14:34:37","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/?p=9435"},"modified":"2011-08-18T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T08:21:08","slug":"christmas-girlfriend-cookies-in-a-jar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/christmas-girlfriend-cookies-in-a-jar\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Girlfriend Cookies in a Jar"},"content":{"rendered":"

During this busy time of year, I think every woman needs to make time for girlfriends. I held a Christmas Cookies with the Chicas<\/em> <\/strong>event last night. I invited friends from church and we just sat, talked, and ate homemade cookies! Only four ladies were able to attend due to the craziness of the season, but it was almost better that way because I was\u00a0able to take the time and really chat with my ladies. I gave these little pint sized cookie jars as favors.\u00a0 Give your girlfriends the gift of no fuss Christmas cookies. Make a few of these for your favorite girlfriends and take some time for girlchat.<\/p>\n

\"fourlonggirlfriendcookiesNFF<\/a>
\nMost cookies-in-a-jar recipes are made for quart-sized mason jars. I made several changes to Allrecipes.com Julia’s Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies In A Jar recipe <\/a>in order for it to fit a pint-sized mason jar, \u00a0include festive M&Ms, and keep the dry ingredients separate from the chocolate chips. I like the pint-sized jars better because I think they are more appropriate size for a favor and they make only six to eight cookies which I feel is a good proportion for two to three people to share! You can find the original\u00a0recipe for quart size\u00a0 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GirlfriendocokieslabelNFF\"<\/a>
\nDry Ingredients to pack in pint mason jar:<\/strong>
\n3\/4 cup and 1 tablespoon and 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
\n1\/4 teaspoon baking soda
\n1\/4 cup white sugar
\n1\/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
\n1\/2 cup Christmas M&Ms
\n1\/4 cup packed brown sugar<\/em><\/p>\n

Directions: <\/em>Combine the flour and baking soda. Place flour and soda mixture in a clean\u00a0pint sized glass jar, and pack firmly. *See NFF Tip below!<\/em> \u00a0Place sugar on top.\u00a0 Pack firmly.\u00a0 Layer with chocolate chips and M&Ms.\u00a0 Place the brown sugar on top, again packing firmly. Cover with a lid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attach an index card with the following directions: <\/span>Empty contents of jar into a large bowl. In separate bowl combine 1\/4 cup plus <\/span>2 Tablespoons of butter, 1 egg and 1\/2 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until creamy. Add to dry mixture.\u00a0 <\/span>Drop by tablespoonful onto an ungreased cookie sheet, and bake in a preheated 375 degrees\u00a0 for 6 to 10 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

NFF Tip:<\/strong>\u00a0 The best way I have found to keep the flour from getting all over your clean mason jar is to simply cut\u00a0a large tip into a disposable decorating bag<\/a>\u00a0(a large plastic Ziploc would work as well), place\u00a0the\u00a0cut bag\u00a0into your mason jar and use it as a funnel for your dry ingredients.\u00a0 This keeps the sides of your jar crystal clean and will give you the clear layered look you want. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"lidNFFgirlfriendcookies\"<\/a>Using festive napkins or fabric, add a little holiday cheer to your Christmas jars by screwing on a small square to the top of the jar. I used Martha Stewart Christmas napkins – I know… I know… nothing is too good for my girlfriends! I then place ribbons around the jar lid and around the center of each jar.\u00a0 I then added a \u00a0Girlfriend Cookies tag.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll be making the Girlfriend Cookies tag printable\u00a0available for free download tonight!\u00a0 Come back and it will be here!\u00a0 in the meantime, make some girl time!\u00a0<\/p>\n

HERE IT IS! Click here for the free tag!<\/a><\/p>\n

\"threesomegirlfriendcookiesNFF\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Blog to you soon,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During this busy time of year, I think every woman needs to make time for girlfriends. I held a Christmas Cookies with the Chicas<\/em> <\/strong>event last night. I invited friends from church and we just sat, talked, and ate homemade cookies! Only four ladies were able to attend due to the craziness of the season, but it was almost better that way because I was able to take the time and really chat with my ladies. I gave these little pint sized cookie jars as favors. Give your girlfriends the gift of no fuss Christmas cookies. Make a few of these for your favorite girlfriends and take some time for girlchat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,1051,1052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-holidays-parties","category-tutorialsrecipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.loraleelewis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}