Country Oatmeal Cookies in a Jar is such a clever and charming way to bake up a batch of homemade cookies, dear. All you need is a pretty jar and some simple ingredients layered just right, and you’ll have everything ready to go whenever the baking mood strikes!
What makes these cookies so special is how the dry ingredients are beautifully layered right in the jar — the flour, baking powder, salt, oats, and both brown and white sugars create such a lovely presentation. When it’s time to bake, you just pour everything out, add your wet ingredients, and you’ve got fresh-baked cookies from scratch in no time!
I love giving these jars as gifts to friends and family — there’s something so warm about handing someone a jar of cookie goodness with instructions tied on with a pretty ribbon. It always brings back memories of baking together in the kitchen, and I know whoever receives it will think of the love that went into making it.
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Country Oatmeal Cookies in a Jar
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup All-Purpose Flour
- 1.5 teaspoon Baking Powder
- 0.5 teaspoon Salt
- 1 cup Spartan
- 0.75 cup Brown Sugar
- 0.75 cup Sugar
- 1 cup Oats
Instructions
- Using a 1 quart jar, layer in the ingredients in the order given.
- Pack down the jar after each addition.
- Replace the lid and cover with an 8 inch circle of fabric.
- Secure the fabric with a rubber band, cover the rubber band with a piece of ribbon or raffia around the lid.
- Attach a tag to the ribbon with the following instructions:.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a medium bowl, cream together 3/4 cup softened butter, with 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
- Add the entire contents of the jar and mix by hand until combined.
- Drop dough by heaping spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheet.
- Bake for 12-15 mins in a preheated oven.
