INSIDE: Use a milk jar for a chocolate cookie recipe mix gift. Great Christmas and hostess gift idea.
Do you remember Oprah? Gawd, I loved her show. I would stick my then baby girl in front of a basket of toys while I vegged out next to her. It was like my reward for getting through a day at home!
It was from her TV show that I first learned about these ah-ma-zing Double Chocolate Almond Cookies. OMG, they are waist-expandingly addictive!!
And the perfectly easy gift to give friends, neighbors or whenever you need to win over your kid’s teacher.
Pair them with a milk jug for a sweet milk and cookies treat…
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Milk and Cookie Mix in a Jar Fun Gift
Nothing can make you feel better than milk and cookies. There is nothing better than warm homemade cookies. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve dropped everything to make a batch of cookies.
Supplies:
– Milk jug jar with straw
– Funnel
– Baking supplies (see recipe below)
– Ribbon
how to make milk jar chocolate cookie mix for fun gift
Gather your cookie making DRY ingredients. I used a plastic funnel to get the flour and sugars into the small opening of the milk jug jars.
Screw on the top and tie a ribbon around the neck of the milk jug jar with its plastic straw.
double chocolate almond cookies recipe
I’m no gourmet chef but I can definitely read the heck outta a recipe. This recipe is courtesy of Food Network.
Ingredients
– 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
– 3/4 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder
– 1 teaspoon baking soda
– 3/4 teaspoon salt
– 1 1/4 cups salted butter, softened to room temperature
– 1 cup sugar
– 1 cup firmly packed dark or light brown sugar
– 1 large egg
– 1 teaspoon vanilla
– 1 cup white chocolate chips
– 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
– 1 cup almonds, chopped
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugars. Add the egg and vanilla and mix together. Add the flour mixture and continue mixing until just combined.
Add the chocolates and almonds and mix until combined. Using two tablespoons or small ice cream scoop, drop the dough two inches apart on sheet pans.
Bake for 15 minutes.
Cool the cookies on the cookie sheet. The cookies should be very soft when they are removed from the oven. They will firm up as they cool.
Perfect way to cap off a day (or often in my case, mid-morning) with a sweet treat and a glass of milk.
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These looks so good & what a great gift idea!
This is a fun way to give cookies! I love it!
Those milk jugs are the cutest! I just got each of my kids one. And this would be a perfect gift as well! They look great!
Thanks Yami! I use these milk jug jars for kid parties. Perfect for small hands.
Victoria – thanks for the “Milk and Cookie Mix in a jar” idea. I have about 3 or 4 other ones and I used to love to give them to co-workers at Christmas. Keep ’em coming. By the way, I got to go to the Oprah show on 5/5/10 (one year before she wrapped up the program) in Chicago – such a fun experience!
These cookies are unbelievably good! I miss Oprah’s show. It was my daily treat!
Oh, wow, I’d like to be on the receiving end of a gift like that! So fun! And doesn’t that pretty straw with it make it even more fun? Yes it does.
What a cute idea! I have made cookie mixes in a mason jar but these milk jars are just adorable!
Thanks! They also serve as great party beverage holders for kids.
I love gifts in a jar1 Thank you for sharing at The Really Crafty Link Party and happy holidays. Pinned!
Oh yum! My daughter wants me to get a bunch of those milk jars…. she insists she will actually drink milk if I buy them, lol
Mid-morning is my witching hour for sweets, too! These look yummy. Thanks for sharing at Vintage Charm:) xo Kathleen|Our Hopeful Home
I love cookies in a jar. They are so much fun to make and receive. Plus this recipe sounds so delicious.
Thank you for sharing on the Whisk It Wednesday Link Party at Carrie’s Home Cooking. Tomorrow when the new link party starts you will be featured! I hope to see you there tomorrow! Cheers~ Carrie
Such a sweet gift idea, I’ve seen cookie mix in a jar but the milk bottles takes it up a level of cuteness!
That looks like such a sweet gift idea…and sounds like delicious cookies! (I want one right now…tee hee!:)) I’m pinning this idea to my handmade gifts idea board…
Thanks Rita! These cookies are the best and highly addictive!!