Time’s Up! The winner of the Desserts in Jars Giveaway is:
#558 dixie: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies w/ walnuts :) my FAVE!!
Congrats Dixie! I’ve sent you an email! :)
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I have a sweet giveaway to share today. :) Hands down, one of my favorite weekends ever was when my friend Shaina came and stayed at my house while she was writing her delicious book Desserts in Jars. We spent two days baking, photographing, and totally indulging in 11 ridiculously fabulous desserts that went straight into this fun book. Shaina’s book not only includes a multitude of decadent desserts made and displayed in jars, but she also has many ideas and recipes for jar mixes made for gifting. Cookie mixes, like this Monster Cookie Mix pictured above, are the perfect gift for any occasion, but they’re especially fun at Christmas! If you’re looking for a unique stocking stuffer or special gift for someone who’s hard to buy for, check out all the fun jar mixes in Shaina’s book. You can now conveniently find Deserts in Jars at Target! The Espresso Brownies, White Chocolate Spice Cookies, or the Spiced Hot Chocolate with Cinnamon Marshmallows Mix are sure to wow! The cookie mix alone would be perfect for a stocking stuffer, or for a great gift tuck this cookie mix in a basket with a baking sheet (or a muffin top pan), a fun decorative spatula, (Target has the cutest Christmas spatulas right now!) a cookie scoop, and some decorative teaspoons along with a copy of Desserts in Jars. Perfect! And they obviously travel well if you need to ship any gifts this year. Shaina shipped me this cookie mix above and as you can see, it looks flawless!
Shaina even has free printable gift tags with instructions for topping your cookie mix jars on her Desserts in Jars site. So convenient!
Ya’ll know as soon as I pulled the gorgeous jar out of the box I had to make these cookies immediately! :) Just whip up a little peanut butter, butter, eggs and vanilla…
Then take your fabulous cookie mix…
And dump it right in.
You can bake on any standard cookie sheet, but I wanted to make these in a muffin top pan today.
I love how HUGE they turn out in a muffin top pan! Look at that gorgeous deep-dish crust! These Monster Cookies definitely live up to their name. :)
Peanut Butter and M&Ms… These are the cookies Santa wants on his plate! :)
Monster Cookies In a Jar Mix
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups rolled oats
3/4 cup M&Ms or chocolate chips
1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
1/4 cup chopped walnuts or broken pretzel pieces
1. Whisk together the sugar, baking soda, and salt and pour into the bottom of a 1-quart Mason jar.
2. Top with the oats, M&M’s, brown sugar, and chopped walnuts or pretzels. Seal with lid and attach a label with the following instructions for the recipient:
To Make Monster Cookies
3/4 cup peanut butter (not natural)
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Mix the peanut butter, butter, vanilla and eggs in a large bowl until well combined. Add the contents of this jar and stir until just combined. Form the dough into 2-inch balls and set on cookie sheet 2 inches apart. Bake for 12-14 minutes until the top sof the cookies begin to brown. Allow to cool on a wire rack.
Recipe adapted from Desserts in Jars.
Desserts in Jars Giveaway!
I’m so excited to share a fun gift basket of sweets and treats with one lucky Kevin & Amanda reader, celebrating Desserts in Jars. Here’s what all you’ll get!
- 1 Monster Cookie Mix (made by Shaina herself!)
- 1 personalized, autographed copy of Desserts in Jars
- 1 $25 Target gift card
- 1 Key to My Heart Jar Necklace
How CUTE is that necklace?? I love it!! :)
How to Enter
To enter the Desserts in Jars giveaway, all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. What’s your favorite dessert?? :)
Contest ends Saturday, December 15 at 8 am CST. One entry per person, please. Winner will be chosen at random and notified by email.
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Stay sweet… and good luck!!! :)
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What a difficult question to answer! Peanut butter cookies are probably my favorite.
Brownies are my all time favorite dessert. Yummy! What a cute giveaway too…thanks!
Favorite dessert = a family recipe for M&M cookies. YUM!
I have lots of favorite desserts, depends on mood, moose tracks ice cream, warm chocolate chip cookies and milk, pumpkin pie, and coffe lovers ice cream. Just to name a few, wink. PS I love the cookie in the jar idea.
i make a christmas coconut and raspberry trifle every christmas. it’s layered with a delicious homemade vanilla pastry cream, whipped cream, macaroons dipped in orange juice and lots and lots of raspberries. i top it with toasted coconut and more raspberries. it. is. divine. honest. it’s my husband’s favorite dessert. and mine. thank you for the chance to win just a generous prize. happiest of holidays to you both.
Definitely Chocolate Chip Cookies!
Chocolate Chip cookies for me! Love em!!!
So hard to say! Probably some vanilla gelato!
Oh gosh, choosing a favorite dessert is so difficult! I think I’ll go with chocolate chip cookies. They never fail!
Those cookies look amazing! My favorite dessert is a strawberry cupcake.
I love a hot fudge sundae!
My mother’s graham cracker cake!!
A good chocolate chip cookie will always make me happy.
My grandpa’s pineapple cookies…or 7 layer bars!
cheesecake! thak i would love to win!
My favorite treat is chocolate brownies.
My favorite is Tiramisu.
I love peanut butter cookies with mini-Reece cups melted in them!
One of my favorites is Apple Crisp with vanilla ice cream! But I have others too!
I love apple crisp…any kind of crisp really. or anyhting strawberry rhubarb
My favorite dessert is just plain vanilla ice cream with lots of fudge, peanuts, sprinkles and a cherry. It would be so cute in a jar!
Chocolate Mousse…Yum!
chocolate cake!!!
So many sweets to choose from!!! It was hard to narrow down one, but my top 2 would be Bread Pudding and Creme Brulee…makes my mouth water thinking of it! YUMMY!!!
Ever since I was a kid, my favorite dessert has been chocolate chip cookies! Mmmm!
Oh, I have so many favorite’s but I will say I am crazy about homemade chocolate chip cookies!
Cheesecake!!!
I love that necklace!!!! My favorite dessert is dutch apple pie! – Karen
Better than anything cake :-)
G’ma Wells’ homemade ice cream – -even in the dead of winter!
My favorite dessert is would be a chocolate cream cake. I made the ones from Purelytwins and just about died it was so good.
I love both tiramisu and coconut cream pie. I have a very hard time choosing!
Just so happens that MONSTER cookies are my fave!!!
I love chocolate chess pie!
My Mom’s pecan pie, or creme brûlée, of cheesecake……
My favorite dessert is Funfetti Cake! While I love homemade treats, I eat this every year on my birthday and can’t ever get enough!
My favorite dessert is Strawberry Shortcake. The kind with the old fashioned biscuit! Yum!
Pretty much anything chocolate! ;D No-bake oatmeal cookies, chocolate cheesecake, fudge, etc….
Thanks for the giveaway!
my favorite desert are blondies!!! <3
I’m going to have to agree with all the other responses who listed their mothers’ Texas Sheet Cake as their favorite.
Any type of Chocolate cake.
German sweet chocolate cake with the classic coconut pecan frosting. Oh, yum!
My favorite dessert is cheesecake! I especially like pumpkin cheesecake and chocolate chip cookie dough cheesecake.
Coffee heath bar crunch ice cream!!
My ALL time favorite is homemade peanut butter pie! We live near the Amish and they make a mean one…hee hee.
Mum’s Rum Christmas pudding!
Brownies!!
And chocolate eclairs!!
And Boston cream pie!!
cookies….cookies and more cookies
Chocolate chip cookies or apple butter cake are definitely my favorites!
I love love love a ooey gooey brownie with vanilla ice cream on top! Yum!
Anything chocolate!!!!
hhmmm…all time favorite dessert would have to be….gosh this is tough!… Creme Brulee….I still remember my first experience…Postrio, San Franciso…. I think my last bite contained a bit of glass from scraping the bottom of the ramekin so hard!
My favorite dessert is anything that combines chocolate and peanut butter!! Can’t get enough :-)
My favorite dessert would have to be cookies! Or ice cream…
Christmas cookies! I enjoy making them as much as eating them and the flavor doesn’t matter.
My favorite would be the Carrot Cake my Mother-In-Law would make just for me! She even made one for me on the birth of my son. LOL
I live in Miami, Florida. So my summers consist of beach vacations and key lime pie! I love a tart homemade key lime pie.
Fruit Goop – 1 can pie filling (rasp. or cherry are my favorite), sprinkle with 1 Jiffy yellow cake mix, top with 1 stick melted butter – bake til golden. Doesn’t get any better than that!! :) Of course, add the vanilla ice cream, too!
Yellow Cake with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
I love too many desserts, but I’ll go with my mom’s homemade peanut butter pie!
My favorite dessert would have to be cheesecake and anything covered in chocolate.
We are fans of No-Bake Cookies at my house.
Flourless chocolate cake!
My favorite cookies are iced oatmeal cookies! But I never turn down other cookies!!
Cupcakes!
I love plain cheesecake.
Choc-Mint Ice-Cream but it must be green in colour.
It’s hard when I have to choose between Tiramisu & Creme Brulee.
Absolute favorite dessert has to be a large piece of Heath Bar Cake. I’m sure it has lots of names, but it’s chocolate cake flavor mixed w/caramel & pieces of crunchy Heath Bars topped w/whipped cream can’t be beat…although the Monster Cookies look yummy. I never thought of making them in a pan such as you used. Also, the labels that come with the book are a very nice addition. I hear Target calling!
shoo fly pie!
It’s hard to beat a warm brownie with ice cream and really good fudge sauce on top.
Currently: Lemon Drop Cookies… And Cream Cheese Brownies…
Lemon pie (and it’s great in a jar)!
Chocolate Chocolate Chip is my absolute favorite.
My favorite dessert in cake in a jar… made them for the 4th of July and they were such a big hit. I am sure it will be the same for the cookie mix in a jar… so enjoy your blogs.
Merry Christmas.
Kathie Kirts.
My favorite dessert is definitely Cheese cake!!! I love it.
Napoleons! YUM!
My favorite dessert is cake in a jar… made them for the 4th of July and they were such a big hit. I am sure it will be the same for the cookie mix in a jar… so enjoy your blogs.
Merry Christmas.
Kathie Kirts.
Anything with peanut butter and chocolate!! I would love this book. I have never gifted jar recipes and it would be so fun. Love your muffin top idea too!!
Pizookies from BJ’s, so yummy!
So hard to choose just one! I think I may have to go with mint chocolate chip ice cream.
I love fruity things, but lately nothing has beaten cheesecake & cookies (with dried fruit or fruity toppings of course)!
chocolate chip cookies !
My Grandmother’s Cocoa Pound Cake! No question! So many fond memories accompany each bite!
My favorite dessert is my mom’s chocolate cake. She puts coconut extract in the chocolate cream cheese frosting which puts it over the top!
Mmmm… I’m crazy about all kinds of desserts! But I’m not a fan of nuts, so I loved the pretzel variation on this recipe! YUM!!
My favorite dessert is Tiramisu Olive Garden style!! :)
Oh I would love to win this book!!! :)
Thanks for the giveaway!
:)
blueberry pie!
anything minty and chocolate!
Cupcakes with real buttercream icing
Ice cream!
my favorite dessert would have to be strawberry cheesecake!
I love all kinds of desserts, but my absolute favorite would be Four Layer Delight!! I get it every year for my birthday and it never gets old.
I love cheesecake – any flavor! But you can’t go wrong with any kind of cookie either!
I have to pick a favorite? chocolate lava cake. NO – carrot cake. NO – strawberry shortcake. NO – pie…
My wife and son call me “The Cookie Monster” so
these are right up my alley!
Peanut butter pie with Oreo crust! Yum!!
Well, I would have said my homemade ice cream — it’s so
rich and delicious or my key lime pie/Charleston’s key lime
pie (that’s a toss-up). But, after seeing these cookies . . .
I love brownies or cherry pie, wait there are too many to choose from. :)
Anything chocolate and gooey with nuts!!!!