A recipe for chocolate chip cookies that can be stored in a jar to be prepared and use as desired. These Christmas jars make wonderful gifts, especially for kids in hostel.

Chocolate Chip Cookies in a Jar

• 1 cup - Brown Sugar
• ½ cup - White Sugar
• 1 ½ cups - Semisweet Chocolate Chips
• 2 cups - All-Purpose Flour
• 1 tsp - Salt
• 1 tsp - Baking Soda

• Mix the salt and baking soda in with the flour.
• Layer the ingredients in a large jar.
• Use scissors to cut a 9 inch-diameter circle from calico.
• Place over lid and secure with rubber band.
• Tie on a raffia or ribbon bow to cover rubber band, ready to be baked whenever you want.

• Preheat oven to 375 °F.
• Sift dry ingredients through a colander to separate the chocolate chips from other ingredients.
• Beat 1 cup of unsalted butter or margarine in a medium bowl.
• Beat sifted ingredients into butter until blended.
• In a small bowl, beat 1 egg with 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
• Mix beaten egg mixture into butter mixture until blended.
• Stir in chocolate chips.
• Drop teaspoonfuls of batter, spaced well apart, onto a greased cookie sheet.
• Bake 8 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Makes about four dozen cookies.