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Email a FriendPosted by kate on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 5:27 PM (EDT):
A tardis cookie jar! I love it!
Cookie Monsters
and the elusive cookie jar
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, February 08, 2012 3:54 PM
Ahh, the mysterious cookie jar. That beautiful, magical creature that decorates our kitchen and fills our tummies with glee.
Or not.
I’ve been pondering cookie jars lately—ever since I found this amazing jar (five points if you can name what it is, fellow nerds!). And I’ve decided this: cookie jars are one of those things people either “do” or they just don’t think about. My sister-in-law, for example, has the cutest jar sitting on her counter that she somehow, inexplicably, always has filled with homemade cookies. To me, that sounds like a full time job! (Around here, I’m afraid it would be!)
I figured out the other day that the secret (to which I’ve longed pondered) is that she makes cookies early and often. Sunday morning, for example, she made a batch—just like that!—before they headed out to Mass.
My problem is that making cookies, while easy, seems epic. It requires the taking out of the ingredients and the measuring of the ingredients and the baking multiple batches of the dough. None of which are ultimately a big deal but can sometimes seem like it at the time.
The other problem is my absolute weakness for baked goods. You can have your candy bars and large bowls of skittles. I’ll take cheese danish and chocolate chip cookies every time (and then, unfortunately, I’ll take them again and again). It seems dangerous and irresponsible to keep baked good just waiting for me to ingest.
Are you a cookie jar aficionado? What are you secrets to keeping it filled? And how do you resist the temptation when you have all that yummy baked stuff in your kitchen?
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Posted by Elizabeth M on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 5:55 PM (EDT):
I recognized that jar too—even though I’ve only seen the show a couple times.
We have a very cute penguin cookie jar on our counter…but it’s filled with dog treats!
I don’t bake often (for many of the reasons you mentioned) but also if I do bake, they don’t seem to stay fresh long in a ceramic cookie jar. Maybe ours just doesn’t seal well. So it was long ago given over to the dog!
Posted by Lisa on Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 7:31 PM (EDT):
I have my mother’s beat up metal apple cookie jar and try to keep it filled with chocolate chip cookies (I actually love to bake) or the cheapo sandwich cookies from the store(I’d love to have more time to bake). It doesn’t matter what they are because I can’t eat em! and it keeps the kids happy when they want a treat and I don’t feel like going healthy. (gluten free isn’t always fun.) But thanks for the smile with your tardis. It was the first I had today.
Posted by rem on Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 11:52 AM (EDT):
I usually have some kind of baked good made, but while I love baking I hate cleaning so I don’t keep a cookie jar. (It maybe doesn’t seem like a big deal, but washing it out between batches was just too much for me.) I keep our cookies on a dinner plate covered with plastic wrap.
Posted by Rebecca on Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 2:55 PM (EDT):
I have a cookie jar. It doesn’t always have cookies in it. When I’m in the mood for cookies, I like to make 1-3 different kinds of dough, sometimes in double batches. Then I bake up about a dozen of each and put the rest in ready-to-bake portions in the freezer. Then when the mood strikes me, I’ll bake 1-2 dozen depending on circumstances to fill the jar. So I’m really only making cookies every so often but baking them as needed (or wanted, as the case may be).
Posted by Raissa on Thursday, Feb 9, 2012 5:21 PM (EDT):
How funny this was out here…it’s Thursday afternoon and I just whipped up a batch of cake mix cookies…box of cake mix, 2 eggs, 1/2 c oil, and I add a fistful of chocolate chips…mix…bake 8-10 minutes at 375 degrees…YUM!!!Cookies to take to number 3 son in college tonight!!
And our cookie jar has saltines and bags of m&m’s and other pre-packaged little snacks in it. Cookies in it are too messy!
Posted by Mary Alice on Saturday, Feb 11, 2012 11:12 AM (EDT):
I have a cookie tin, which helps more with the “out of sight, out of mind,” but there are almost always cookies in the house. The first line of attack is to teach your children to bake—this is the simplest way to ensure that your cookie jar stays full! To make life easy on them (and me), the kitchen aid mixer is always out on the counter, and all of the dry baking ingredients are stored in a cabinet right below the mixer. We also have extra butter in the freezer, so it doesn’t cause a problem if someone uses a stick or two in a batch of cookies.
Another tip is that I usually make a double batch of dough and freeze half—if you put it in a ziplock bag and squeeze it flat like a sheet, you can freeze a stack of them. Then, when it is snowy and you want a fresh batch of cookies, you just take it out, rip off the entire bag, and cut it into squares—pop them into the oven. It is like being your own pillsbury.
Lastly, we have a strong “clean as you go” rule for cooks in our house. If you just force yourself to put all of the measuring cups and bowls right into the dishwasher, you won’t have a sink full of dirty dishes when you are finished baking, and if you fill the mixer bowl with hot water right away, you won’t have lots of little fingers full of cookie dough.
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