I love the idea of giving people homemade gifts in a jar for Christmas. I think they are more thoughtful and a lot nicer than the often given box of chocolates or tin of biscuits. Over the years I have made bath salts, soaps, preserves, flavoured nuts and baking mixes like brownies and biscuits.
Recently, I saw this recipe for Christmas Cookies in a Jar on The Larson Lingo and The Organised Housewife. They looked gorgeous with their festive MM layer. I had to make some for myself.
I picked up the jars at Kmart, the Christmas MMs at Coles and printed my own labels on sticker sheets.
If you want to have a go yourself, The Larson Lingo has free printable labels for your jars or you can buy labels from The Organised Housewife.
If cookies aren’t your thing, you will find heaps of other sites out there with ideas and printable labels. Here are some of my favourites …….
Cul-de-sac Cool has 5 different ideas with labels including pumpkin cranberry bread and toffee blondie bars
Squawkfox has heaps of ideas including soups in a jar.
Organized Christmas lots of ideas, and not just for food
Skip to My Lou has a few gift jar recipes. I am loving the sound of injecting more candy canes into the Christmas season with peppermint brownies
I hope you enjoy the crazy last days before Christmas.
These look great!!
Hey, thanks for the shout out! Your jars look so cute. Happy Holidays!
We had so much fun making these cookie mix in a jar during the year. We also sticky labelled the baking instructions to the other side of the jar. I hope everyone enjoyed their gift.