December 11, 2003

• i'm not toally useless.
  after yesterdays batch of cookies...i have renewed hope that i can make cookies that don't suck. or that taste like cake, or that taste flavorless. these came out crispity. i have failed miserably for YEARS to be able to make cookies other than the cut and slice kind.

  
  

  a month or two ago i was all over the net looking for in-a-jar recipes. printed out the assembly and then made gift tags. lost all that while realizing anyone who i decided to make a cookie-mix-in-a-jar, or brownie-mix-in-a-jar, or soup-in-jar may not want it. some are diabetic, some gbs, some don't need it, and when it came to the soup, and coming up with not-in-the-jar ingredients, i thought...they won't want to fool with it. (i'm not gunna buy the rest of the ingredients and make a big ol basket present, these were just supposed to be treats)

  
  

  either way, i decided to do another search the other day(there were thousands of different sites. mixes in a jar, soups, baking cake in a jar, etc.). walmart had cute sealed jars. i put together a couple snowmen jars with cookie mix (i've always had a thing for snowmen). he and i like oatmeal chocolate chip, so here is the recipe i basically went with. i'd gone ahead and packed two snowmen with the mix. had to try it before i gave it away or posted about it. bunk information SUCKS.

  
  

  basically because i lessed a tablespoon of called for butter. used what was left of the girardelli and reeses pb chips. made half the batch of teaspoonful drops rather than the huge TBSPs. if you wanna do this, here is a sheet of the instructions (that go on the jar), it's 8 of the same, to print and cut out. (they print out crappy on my printer, but maybe others have better luck). next time i'm adding coconut, think granola cookie! if you prefer raisins, i am sure the chips could be switched out.

  
  

  here's the apple pie filling and crumb top recipes: stir together-4 cups apple(cutchunk) and pear, 1/2 cup sugar, about a TBSP cinnamon and 2 TBSP flour (or ground oatmeal).
  pour that into the pie shell 8-inch (or was it a 9 inch).
  crumb topping- 2 TBSP packed brown sugar, 2TBSP oatmeal flour (or plain) (i ground the oatmeal in the coffee grinder), cut in 1 TBSP butter, then kinda squish mix it with your fingers til you have course crumbs (do not over mix the butter with your warm hands). mix in a tablespoon of unground oats.
  sprinkle on top.
  bake for about 20-30 minutes @ 375. then cover the edge of the crust with foil strips. cook for about another 20-30 minutes.

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