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A gift that you have put together yourself is a great way to express your appreciation for someone else. Nothing says love more than a warm cookie. With that in mind, here are some great cookie gift ideas that you can use. They will bring your own special recipe for fresh baked cookies to your loved one who may live across the street or across the continent.

Jar cookie gifts are made by placing all the dry ingredients for your favorite cookies in a canning jar. Typically, a quart jar is required for gift cookies.

The recipe you choose should have a dry ingredient list that adds up to about four cups. Recipes using brown sugar work best since it can be packed a little tighter if necessary or can be used to form a plug that will keep all the other ingredients in place if the volume is less than one quart.

The best recipes for this type of gift cookies have ingredients that are of various colors. Sugar cookies do not work well since all the ingredients are white. Chocolate chip or oatmeal cookies are good examples.

Ingredients should be layered carefully into the jar without mixing. You want the differing layers to be visible through the jar. A chopstick can be used to make interesting patterns along the jar by causing valleys and ridges.

Do not forget to add the salt, spices and baking powder. Mixed together they can even form a thin layer to separate other light ingredients.

After placing all the ingredients in the jar, add a fresh canning lid, cover with a square of decorative cloth and hold in place with a canning ring. Use raffia or ribbon to attach directions for completing your warm cookie gift.

Since you have all the ingredients out already, you may wish to make more than one gift of jar cookies. If the ingredients are sealed in tightly in the jars, they will keep for several months and be ready for giving at a moment’s notice.

Hey, since you do have those ingredients out, you could choose to bake up a fresh batch of cookies for your family. As you have looked through your recipes for cookie gift ideas, you may have been reminded of one recipe you haven’t cooked in quite a while or found a new recipe for the family to try.

Cookie’s make wonderful gift’s even for the hard-to-get person. Visit my Cookie Gift blog for more cookie gift ideas and inspiration. Also see what we recommend for birthday cookie gift baskets.