Enjoy this easy M&M Cookies in a Jar recipe! It’s a delicious homemade gift for family, teachers or friends for Halloween.
Halloween M&M Cookies in a Jar
Cookies in a jar are great homemade gifts for teachers and friends! We made these tasty Halloween M&M Cookies in a Jar craft many years ago at one of my MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) meetings and I thought you would enjoy making them!
One of my favorite memories as a kid was making M&M cookies with my Grandma. She always had M&M candy in her house and these were the only cookies I can ever remember her making! So I especially love making these cookies for gifts as it brings back such fond memories.
To make your homemade cookies gift extra cute this Halloween, I designed free printable Happy Halloween circle tags for the jar along with printable instructions for gift giving these cookies. I hope you enjoy this fun food gift!
How to Make Cookies in a Jar
This M&M cookies recipe is really yummy! This is a fun project to do with kids because the recipe calls for mixing the ingredients with your hands. You of course don’t have to use your hands, but it sure is fun!
We covered our jar lids with purple paper, then after assembling the jars with the cookie ingredients, wrapped a cute polka dot ribbon around the top.
Putting your jars together is super simple! You’ll need a quart jar and fill with these ingredients:
- M&M’s (For Halloween – Get the Halloween themed M&M candy)
- brown sugar
- flour
- baking soda
- salt
- white sugar
Directions for baking the cookies are included in the printable recipe below. These cookies turn out light, fluffy and delicious!
Cookies Recipe & Free Printables
You can download the free printable instructions, ingredient list, 2 directions tags and 2 circle tags here. This cookie recipe is for use with a 1 quart Mason jar.
Print the Cookies in a Jar Recipe
Enjoy this delicious cookie gift recipe!
M&M Cookies in a Jar
Ingredients
For 1 Quart Mason Jar:
- 1/2 cup of M&M’s save some for top
- 3/4 cup brown sugar not packed
- 2 cups flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- Sprinkle more candy on top
For M&M Cookies
- 3/4 cup butter softened
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Instructions
1 Quart Mason Jar Directions:
- Add M&M’s (save some for top)
- Add brown sugar
- Add flour
- Add baking soda
- Add salt
- Add white sugar
- Sprinkle more candy on top
For M&M Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- Empty contents of jar into large bowl and thoroughly blend mix.
- Mix in the butter until well blended.
- In a small bowl, beat together the egg and vanilla, then add it to the batter. Your dough will be a little crumbly.
- Shape dough into 1 inch balls and place 2 inches apart on baking sheet.
- Bake for 10 to 14 minutes, until edges are lightly browned.
Nutrition
Originally published October 20, 2009
Diane says
The instructions do not specify what size the jar is! Would like to make these in our After School Program, but need that small detail ??????????
Amy Locurto says
Hi Diane, you’ll need a quart jar for this recipe. Have fun making them!
Franny says
Loved this tutorial!! Thank you for sharing! Visit my website to check out my son helping prepare cookie jars for his teachers 🙂
Nick says
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Thanks Nick
Domestic Goddess says
Thank you so much!! I LOVE the owl one!
Chanin says
Adorable! We are getting ready to do these with my MOPs group as well! I may make up something for fall though because we don’t meet again until November 2. I will link this to my blog. Thanks!
Ces says
I love it! thank you. I will share this on my blog.