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Cowboy Cookies Recipe

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Ingredients

1 1/3 c Quick-cooking rolled oats;
1 ts Baking soda
1/2 c Brown sugar -;
1/4 ts Salt
1 ts Baking powder
1 c Chocolate chips
1 Wide-mouth canning jar -;
1 1/3 c All-purpose flour
1/2 c Granulated sugar
1/2 c sliced pecans

Directions

Step #1 In canning jar, brown sugar, pecans and chocolate chips, layer oats, granulated sugar, pressing each layer firmly in place before adding the next ingredient.
Step #2 Use your hand to level, to smooth & to tightly pack each layer.
Step #3 In a small bowl, baking powder, mix together flour, baking soda & salt.
Step #4 Add flour mixture to jar a little at a time; press mixture in tightly after each addition.
Step #5 It will be a tight fit.
Step #6 Use the jar lid to push the last flour down into jar.
Step #7 Decorate lid with fabric or ribbon.
Step #8 Attach cookie mix recipe to the jar.
Step #9 Yield: 1 gift.
Step #10 See recipe for Cowboy Cookies.
Step #11 Comments: A new booklet, "Cookies in a Jar," shares ideas for making 26 cookie & brownie mixes, each mix designed to fit snugly inside a wide-mouthed quart jar.
Step #12 The recipient of the gift need add only butter, egg & vanilla to have a bowlful of cookie dough ready for the oven.
Step #13 The gift idea has made its way into catalogs, but the do-it-yourselfer can save money.
Step #14 One holiday catalog is selling a quart jar of cookie mix & a pretty, appliqued potholder as a set for $29, not counting postage & handling.
Step #15 Using a $3 potholder from a discount store, we were able to re-create that gift idea for less than $7.
Step #16 The booklet "Cookies in a Jar" is available by mail for $5.
Step #17 45, postage included.
Step #18 To order, write to Cookbook cboard, P.
Step #19 --.
Step #20 Box 50053, Austin, Texas 78763.
Step #21 The cowboy cookie mix recipe is one of those featured in the book.
Step #22 Its layers of sugar, pecans, chocolate chips & flour make an attractive package.
Step #23 One evening of assembly-line jar-packing might easily resolve a dozen gift-giving dilemmas.
Step #24 --.
Enjoy the Cowboy Cookies recipe