Components for a container containing chocolate chip cookie ingredients. Each layer can be compressed to make it fit better.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 20 mins |
| Servings: | 24 |
| Yield: | 4 dozen |
Ingredients
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Mix the salt and baking soda with the flour, then layer the ingredients into a 1 quart, wide mouth jar. Use scissors to cut a 9 inch-diameter circle from calico. Place over lid, and secure with rubber band. Tie on a raffia or ribbon bow to cover rubber band.
- Enclose a card with the following mixing and baking directions: Chocolate Chip Cookies 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). 2. In a large bowl, cream 1 cup of unsalted butter or margarine until light and fluffy. Beat in 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla. Mix in cookie mix. Drop teaspoonfuls of dough, spaced well apart, onto a greased cookie sheet. 3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in preheated oven, or until lightly browned. Cool on wire racks.
Reviews
Wonderful Christmas present for our grandchildren – went down a storm
I’m glad I made a test batch. These need 2 eggs, not 1! Without the extra egg the batter doesn’t really come together. That might also be why other reviewers found the cookies too flat and crispy. I couldn’t fit all the chocolate chips, but 1 cup of chips is enough for this recipe anyway. This makes a great gift, but make sure when you make the baking direction tag to list 1/2 cup softened butter, 1 tsp vanilla and 2 eggs.
The cookies tasted great! And looked wonderful in the jar. A little trouble fitting it all into the jar. I cut back the chocolate chips to 1 cup and lessened the brown sugar to 3/4 cup. My son has a dairy allergy so we subbed soy margarine for the butter. It made 36 good sized cookies.
We received this as a gift and it is one of the best chocolate chip cookie recipes I have tried
For all of the people acting like kids and arent using their brains, you CAN fit five cups into a four cup jar! It is simple, you PACK the ingredients down very tight, then you have a lot of room for your ingredients!!! In my opinion, this is a VERY good recipie and very delicious! They are very cute and easy, and perfect for gifts! I made 12 of these as CUTE Christmas gifts and everyone loved them! I would reccomend you try this out and make sure you put your ingredients in this order: first PACK down your flour in the jar, then PACK your brown sugar, then sugar, then you should have pleanty of room for your chocolate chips! ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok there is no way you can fit all the ingredients in the jar do the math five cups do not fit into a four cup jar. its to late after you start putting the ingredients in the jar.
I literally just made these and they are very yummy!! They do turn out to be pretty crisp, but the are still a wonderful treat!
You need to pack, pack, and pack the ingredients! Packing the flour first is the key. I also found that making the layers higher on the sides and sloping inward allowed for the ingredients to pack better. Another tip I have is add the chocolate chips last and add them slowly– spread them to the walls of the jar and pack them in little by little or you will find they don’t all fit. Also, many people commented that the cookies come greasy or flat- We found using 1 stick of unsalted butter not 1 cup of unsalted butter gave better results. We made 72 of these jars for a baby shower as favors and they were a huge hit! They do require quite a bit of work to make its not a quick and easy task as one might expect.
simple and quick to put together I took about an hour and a half for 12 jars. I didn’t bother mixing in the salt and baking soda with the flour, I just tossed it on top of the flour. I also adjusted the amount of flour, brown sugar and white sugar to make it the same as the toll house recipe. 2 1/4 cups of flour and 3/4 cups of each sugars. I also layered it 1 1/4 cups of flour with baking soda and salt tossed on top, then brown sugar, remaining cup of flour and then white sugar and topped with M&M’s or chocolate chips. You’ll need to increase the eggs to 2 in the instructions.
Awesome! Perfect christmas present it was cheap to make and everyone got a little gift!
I used the called for size jars, exact amounts and packed down the ingredients a lot and there still wasn’t enough space for all the stuff.
I didn’t have any problems. I baked some of the cookies too and they were yummy!! I put the flour first. Then the teaspoon of salt and teaspoon of baking soda. Next, the brown sugar, packed!! Then the white sugar so it wouldn’t seep through. Then finally on top the chocolate chips. I also put caramel bits (YUMM!) and in some pecans or M&M’s, or peanut butter bites. Delicious! Thanks for sharing! Maybe one of these days I’ll post a pic! The only thing is I wish the colorful M&M’s or chocolate chips could have been down lower in the jar to see the colors..may try that with the m&m’s then put brown sugar on top…I don’t know…anyway, it worked great for me!:) Merry Christmas!
I used the altitude adjustment in the review from SCOTTYLITTLEFOOT and they came out great. My daughter said they were the best cookies I have ever made. I did add green and red M&Ms to the chocolate chips for color. I wanted to make a test batch before committing to 24 jars. I had to tap the jar on the counter several times after each layer to get the ingrediants to fit.
When I first saw this recipe, I realized it had to much butter, so I reduced the butter to 3/4 cup, but that was still(!) to much. They came out flat, too crisp, and raw in the middle. We tryed this recipe after the Cowboy Cookies In a Jar, and these couldn’t even compare. We didn’t have to change anything about the Cowboy Cookies. This recipe is overall a bad recipe, and didn’t even bother with the jar, because we knew we wouldn’t be giving this to anyone, so I don’t know how they fit in the jar. Would NOT recommend!
I loved it super easy and fast!
I was able to fit almost everything in the jars – I just had to leave some chocolate chips out – but I figured I could either attach a bag of chips or just have the receiver make up the difference with their own chocolate chips. I didn’t make any of the cookies to see how good they are.
I had a hard time getting all the ingredients to fit. The flour gave me the most trouble because I had to pack it pretty tight in order to put the lid on it. Also one of the recipients of this cookie jar baked it and said it didn’t rise. She ended up throwing the whole batch away.
I made these as gifts for Christmas for all of my co-workers (We have an annual Tree trimming party at). Those coworkers that have made the cookies have loved them, others have asked for an extra jar so the can display it as decoration. This was a great way to economize on gifts for a large group of people; I bought most of my ingredients at a locale wharehouse-wholesaler (like Sams Club/Costco) which kept the costs down. I spent about $3 per gift – and you can’t beat that!
Went flat. Added more flour and chips, still flat. No taste.
Good Recipe. I am doing the jars right now, and just a HUGE TIP!!! PUT FLOUR FIRST!!! I made 4 jars with ingredients not fitting, and the jars looked all “floury” otherwise. Putting the flour first and making sure to pack down after each ingredient is a HUGE help! =)
I did a test run of these before giving them away for presents. They were amazingly yummy. I added some colored sprinkles to the mix for some extra color. They came out wonderfully.