Reviewed: Dec. 11, 2011

simple and quick to put together I took about an hour and a half for 12 jars. I didn't bother mixing in the salt and baking soda with the flour, I just tossed it on top of the flour. I also adjusted the amount of flour, brown sugar and white sugar to make it the same as the toll house recipe. 2 1/4 cups of flour and 3/4 cups of each sugars. I also layered it 1 1/4 cups of flour with baking soda and salt tossed on top, then brown sugar, remaining cup of flour and then white sugar and topped with M&M's or chocolate chips. You'll need to increase the eggs to 2 in the instructions.

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chelle

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Jul. 28, 2011

Awesome! Perfect christmas present it was cheap to make and everyone got a little gift!

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Shaylene

Reviewed: Feb. 20, 2011

I used the called for size jars, exact amounts and packed down the ingredients a lot and there still wasn't enough space for all the stuff.

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PamperedChef

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Leesburg, Virginia, USA

Living In: San Diego, California, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 17, 2009

I didn't have any problems. I baked some of the cookies too and they were yummy!! I put the flour first. Then the teaspoon of salt and teaspoon of baking soda. Next, the brown sugar, packed!! Then the white sugar so it wouldn't seep through. Then finally on top the chocolate chips. I also put caramel bits (YUMM!) and in some pecans or M&M's, or peanut butter bites. Delicious! Thanks for sharing! Maybe one of these days I'll post a pic! The only thing is I wish the colorful M&M's or chocolate chips could have been down lower in the jar to see the colors..may try that with the m&m's then put brown sugar on top...I don't know...anyway, it worked great for me!:) Merry Christmas!

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Misti

Home Town: Slidell, Louisiana, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 9, 2009

I used the altitude adjustment in the review from SCOTTYLITTLEFOOT and they came out great. My daughter said they were the best cookies I have ever made. I did add green and red M&Ms to the chocolate chips for color. I wanted to make a test batch before committing to 24 jars. I had to tap the jar on the counter several times after each layer to get the ingrediants to fit.

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LisaAnne

Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2009

When I first saw this recipe, I realized it had to much butter, so I reduced the butter to 3/4 cup, but that was still(!) to much. They came out flat, too crisp, and raw in the middle. We tryed this recipe after the Cowboy Cookies In a Jar, and these couldn't even compare. We didn't have to change anything about the Cowboy Cookies. This recipe is overall a bad recipe, and didn't even bother with the jar, because we knew we wouldn't be giving this to anyone, so I don't know how they fit in the jar. Would NOT recommend!

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Abbie

Reviewed: Aug. 30, 2009

I loved it super easy and fast!

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BiancaConnell

Home Town: Seattle, Washington, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 8, 2009

I was able to fit almost everything in the jars - I just had to leave some chocolate chips out - but I figured I could either attach a bag of chips or just have the receiver make up the difference with their own chocolate chips. I didn't make any of the cookies to see how good they are.

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Lala Haha

Reviewed: Jan. 20, 2008

I had a hard time getting all the ingredients to fit. The flour gave me the most trouble because I had to pack it pretty tight in order to put the lid on it. Also one of the recipients of this cookie jar baked it and said it didn't rise. She ended up throwing the whole batch away.

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Lorio

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Dededo, Dededo, Guam

Living In: Lenexa, Kansas, USA

Reviewed: Apr. 3, 2007

I made these as gifts for Christmas for all of my co-workers (We have an annual Tree trimming party at). Those coworkers that have made the cookies have loved them, others have asked for an extra jar so the can display it as decoration. This was a great way to economize on gifts for a large group of people; I bought most of my ingredients at a locale wharehouse-wholesaler (like Sams Club/Costco) which kept the costs down. I spent about $3 per gift - and you can't beat that!

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