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
Your post on Halloween M&M Cookies is great. I am going to include in my blog. http://nicksposts.wordpress.com/
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.
cupcake mama says
Is there any way to change to tag to read “Happy Thanksgiving”? My MOPS group has a make a take meeting planned for Nov 5 and a mason jar mix is one thing we are doing. We don’t meet again in October though!
Jane says
Most “cookie in a jar” recipes call for quart sized, wide-mouth mason jars. You can find them by the dozen right now at WalMart or most grocery stores in the canning section.
But my question is… where can you find the Halloween colored M&M’s this year? All I can locate are the “fall” bags, and those colors are way too drab for this cute project. I even looked on the official M&M site and it appears they only have the fall ones. Has anyone seen it around this year??!
onion_soup says
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Kathi says
Just reiterating the request for info regarding jar size and where to buy them!
Home Confetti says
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Wana says
Very cute. I’m inspired to be nice and give these out to a few people 🙂
morena negrello says
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Compliments for your ideas…great…
Bye bye
Morena
Renee Dietzel says
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RG says
These are nice, but I was curious if you had an alternate like “Happy Harvest” or something for those who have a conscience objection to Halloween? Also, do you have any response cards for parties? Thank you so much for your wonderful gifts either way.
Linda H says
Too cute. Thanks for the printable and the recipe!
Carmen says
What size are this jars????
Amy says
@Carmen,
Good question… 🙂 I just bought the big ones at Walmart. They only had this size and tiny ones. Not sure of the exact size. Does anyone know? I don’t have a jar handy right now…
little lizard king says
Is there any way I could con you into making the cookie printable labels with a Christmas theme? I made a ton of these for Halloween, and I’d love to do it again for Christmas. They were a huge hit, and so, so cute. Pretty please!
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Kelly says
Thank you for the great idea! We have done these many times during the holidays, but your Halloween cookie in a jar was too cute to pass up. My son made one for his teacher, it was a big hit with all the other Mom’s.
Your designs are wonderful and I so appreciate you sharing your craft.
Thank you-
Kelly-Michele
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The Mommy's Place - Sandy says
I love this they look yummy. My son is going to be so excited
Amy says
Thank you! I have been looking for something special to give to the families we trick-or-treat with and this is perfect.
Mela Kamin says
thx 2 @livinglocurto I will have some teacher gifts done this week http://bit.ly/DTKGK
Jaz Higgins says
Cute idea! http://bit.ly/BFIYf
Tami C says
Also a fun way to welcome new neighbors to the hood – thanks.
Rita says
Thank you for sharing; this is perfect to send to my daughter and roomates at college.
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Little Lizard says
I just linked this to my blog, littlelizardking.blogspot.com
Thanks for sharing!
Rachel says
I LOVE this! And you are so fabulous to include the printables too! I’ll be linking, thanks so much!
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wendy says
Amy, I just made up three of these for the ladies I visit. Thanks for the printables and the clever idea. 🙂 I blogged about it and linked to you.
mandy says
I may use this for Christmas! I need something to make for the women in the family. Last year I did cocoa, but that was expensive and a real pain! Thanks!!!!
Marsha says
Adorable! And those cookies actually look like they taste good too. 🙂
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[email protected] says
Thank you for sharing this! I love the cookie jar idea and this would also be great for Christmas or just because.
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Elizabeth says
Halloween M&M cookies in a jar gift – CUTE! http://bit.ly/BFIYf
kelly mc willette says
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Tidymom says
CUTE CUTE! RT @livinglocurto: A fun cookies in a jar craft with free printables: http://bit.ly/BFIYf
Erin says
I LOOOOVE THIS IDEA!! I’m sooo doing this for my daughters preschool teachers and room moms! Thanks for sharing this wonderful idea!
Amy says
I have tons of mason jars that I’ve been wanting to do this with but just didn’t know exactly how I wanted to do it… well, thanks for the motivation sista!!! Wes’ bday party is this weekend and I’m thinking this would be a fabulous party favor that kids and moms (or even dads!) can enjoy together!!! THANKS!!!
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Christie says
I just printed these out — making 5 for teacher gifts! What size jar? Thanks so much! They are precious, especially love the OWLS! As a Chi Omega, I love the revival of the OWL!
Stephanie says
Thanks so much for sharing…..you have the best ideas.
[email protected] says
this.is.precious. you are a genius! thanks so much for sharing! i have filed you away at my file box. can’t wait to make some!
Lisa says
Too cute!!
TidyMom says
These are GREAT Amy!!
~TidyMom
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Teresa says
I’m downloading it now- how fun. Thanks
It seems I’m always telling you thanks….I need to come up with a better word….maybe something like
You are fantastic =)
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Pepper says
Those are very cute!! I love gifts in jars but never do them I should really do some this year!
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jenjen says
I love it. So cute. Thanks for the printables!
XOXO
Jen
Screwed Up Texan says
Don’t even ask me what I am doing up this late…but the cookies in a Jar idea looks fun! You should do something similar around Christmas.
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