Are you ready for my next Mothers Day gift idea??? Its only two weeks away!
Cause I dont know about you. But giving my mom personalized baked goods has always got me bonus points.
Did you check out the Mothers Day Cake?
Or how about the Mothers Day Garden Party?
My next idea is not a cake. Crazy! I know.
Its cookies.
Its a Mothers Day Cookie jar.
A Mothers Day cookie jar filled with approximately 4, 531 cookies (four dozen if you want to get technical) with sweet words about mom and one GIANT cookie on the front.
The idea came to me one day as I was trying to find words to describe my mom.
I didnt use every word on this list… I have no idea where "sprightly" came from.
Although its time consuming, its really very easy to do! Two colors of icing. Four dozen cookies. Just writing out words.
Totally do-able.
And you can pretty much package these up any old way for a neat effect.
I can just see it… "Mom. I love you! You are so many things to me… so I made all these cookies with words on them that describe you! So if you are ever feeling down or just off… you can grab one of these cookies and know how I see you."
Or…something like that.
I mean. She probably shouldn't grab one a these cookies a year from now. Two weeks max folks.
So have fun with this!
Make the cookies a little bigger and use phrases that are significant to mom.
Or write the names of every single child and grandchild.
Or just write 'I love you" on 100 cookies.
Whatever you do, she is sure to love it!
*If you do decide to try this, be sure to take lots of pictures and add them to my flickr group. I would love to see! Have you checked it out lately? You are all so amazingly talented!
I use my favorite sugar cookie recipe and my special version of royal icing.
Excellent as always Amanda. I might have to do some of these. Maybe I’ll make some for my friend who is going to have her first Mother’s Day since her son died April 10. She is a great friend and has been like a mother to my son who spent a lot of time there helping her take care of her son. Thanks for the inspiration.
Ohhhh I’m in LOVE!!!!!! What a fabulous idea!
Awesome!! So creative, Girl!!
Such a sweet and creative idea!
Love it!
I love those large jars and have them filled with all my baking items..what a great gift idea!
Love it! It looks sooo sweet!
So beautiful! I would love to make my mom a gift like this, but I can’t decorate cookies like that!
I give up – I can’t think of any more ways to say “wow amanda, you’re so creative” .
Love how simple the idea is & how beautifully you did it.
ooh, think this is the perfect idea for my mommy ! thanks!
Laci
Those are just beautiful! I love how you decorated the jar, too ~ that would be a fab Mother’s Day gift!
This made me cry. (I am a tad emotional today) Amanda that is gorgeous *goes off to brainstorm list of words for my own mum*
I love these
The thought is beautiful and the packaging is lovely!
Well done, Amanda
Wow, you must have an amazing Mom because she sure has an amazing daughter. I would love to receive something like this from my adult children. I would freeze them and use them throughout the year when I needed a pick-me-up. Thanks for posting.
I am enjoying your blog posts. You have inspired me to make these for my mom and my sons’ teachers for Mother’s Day. Thank you for all of the great recipes, ideas and pictures! Happy Mother’s Day!
What a fun idea.
These cookies make me wish I were your mom’s neighbor! Certainly she would need some friendly help in enjoying these! I’d even bring the coffee!
*These cookies do make a girl popular! Perfect for MIL, too!
On a total side note, there were a dozen little seven year old girly girls raving about your butter cream frosting on Cloe’s birthday cake! Yum!
AMAZING! What an awesome idea!!! I might have to try this – it would be prefect for my mom because she never knows how incredible she is!! Thanks so much – you are an inspiration – as always!
awesome! love the cookies!
I wish I could just jump through the screen and grab one!!!
What a GREAT idea! I might do it for my daughters that are now moms since my mom is no longer living. Love it!
WOWWEEE KAZOWIEEEE You outdid yourself with this one. Love it so much! You have one creative mind! And the talent to go along with it!!!!
Fantastic…however, I’m not even half as talented as you! I can dream though, I guess!
You are….Adorable! I bet you thought I was going to say amazing. Well, that too.
I am so sorry, but I have to tell you what my twisted little mind thought when I read them for MY mother. You are…..dead. Oh gosh, please forgive me. ; ) LOL!!!!
I love them…what a cute creative idea…
Absolutely LOVE this idea! What a creative way to show how much you love your mom! I just might have to steal this idea and send some cookies to my mom this mother’s day!
This is the most simple yet fantastic idea! So creative, I just want to live in your brain for a day to get inspiration. lol, that sounds really weird! he he
These are too precious. Just about got chills…from cookies! Normal?
Found you via Foodgawker…always thrilled to find a fellow baking mom blogger!
I love the cookie jar idea! Soooo super cute and sweet! Wanna come help my kids make me one? Any excuse to always have your yummy cookies on hand is a good one!
What a cute idea!
Brilliant! the minute I’m on my own computer, I’ll have to link all over the place
Your Mom, any Mom would be delighted to receive such a pretty and thoughtful gift Amanda. As always, your post is delightful, creative and infused with just the right amount of humour. Thank you!
p.s. Looking forward to seeing your entries on http://universityofcookie.com/ Congrats Professor!
Amanda, this is just adorable! So simple and so thoughtful – genious idea!
Great idea
What a gorgeous idea. I love words (sounds silly but you know what I mean), as does my mum. Maybe next year!
That is a wonderful idea! I wish when my daughter gets older she would do this for me. I’d probably cry my eyeballs out if she did especially to know that she made something for me with what she thought of me.
I think that is a fabulous idea! You are very creative and thoughtful to come up with that for your mother. I am sure she will LOVE it! Who wouldn’t, though?
That is such a cute idea Amanda! If I made you one of those creativity would be on a lot of them cookies
lol
This is brilliant, but I’m not using the idea for Mother’s day, rather teacher appreciation week! I love little things to give each day of the week to my girls’ teachers. This is perfect! Thank you for you constant inspiration and a motivation to try new things!
gorgeous and lovely!
what a sweet gift
Oh, my mom would have LOVED getting cookies like these. How sweet, Amanda! You always have the BEST ideas!
My silly Mom is on the South Beach diet. Maybe I’ll make her some hamburgers and write on them with mustard. Somehow I don’t think that would have the same effect as your pretty cookies.
What a beautiful gift! Great idea
I think I could almost do this! Great idea!
This is a brilliant idea! It really touched a place in my heart.
Very creative and thoughtful!
i LOVE this and have already bought some jars and the ingredients to make cookies. This is what my mom and MIL are getting for Mother’s Day! THanks Amanda!!
my plan of attack would be to make little cupcakes, write out all the appropriate descriptive words, and affix them to the cupcakes with a toothpick. i say this because i doubt my icing-writing would be at all legible.
Thank you for the idea and the recipe…I had a really bad baking day when making these and tried two recipes that failed before I tried yours. the cookies are sooo delicious! Will be making these for my mom when she comes to visit!
I plan on doing this for both my mom and mother-in-law but I also thought I would make them for a friend who recently moved far from home. This jar of cookies will be going from VA to NC and I’m afraid of the cookies arriving as crumbs. How can I best pack this so it arrives in one piece?
I did this for my son’s preschool teacher and she loved it. It was time consuming but well worth it when I seen her face when it clicked in her head what the words were for. Thanks!
I am so sad, I can’t seem to get the icing right. Does it makes sense that it usually takes about 5 TBL of milk to get it to the right consistency? Even then, it can be a little lumpy. Hmmm. I love the cookie recipe! I made them for easter and I am now making them for Mother’s Day. (ragga_muffin from LJ)
That’s so sweet, I’m kind of wanting to taste it!
In fact this is a great idea for tomorrow. Yet, maybe I’ll do it some other time even if it’s not Mother’s day. I’ve done so many work lately so I haven’t thought of any idea for my mother. But I have an idea to share too, for mothers who loves to eat outside and make travel anywhere, an eco-friendly stainless steel container may suit her. Because she can pack her lunch nicely, can stack up to 4 different dishes, is easy to carry along, and stainless steel containers from Happy Tiffin are 100% BPA free. So, your mom won’t have a problem with it. With its good design, she can also stack liquids in it such as juices, liquors, water, soups, etc. I think you’ll both love it. 
Happy Mother’s day to all Moms!
Thank you for the wonderful ideas, Amanda! I made cookies for my mom and they were a big hit! You can see the pictures here: http://dealsmealsreelsheelsandspiels.blogspot.com/2010/05/mothers-day-cookies.html
I love your sugar cookie & royal icing recipes!! Finally, I have a yummy icing that will completely harden to use in my thumbprint cookies!
Happy Mother’s Day!
I’m so excited! I made these for my mommy and my best friend for mother’s day. It was SO fun for a number of reasons…1. It was my FIRST time making REAL cut-outs (not counting the many years of Christmas cookies w/ the family) and they were perfect, 2. It was my very first time working with royal icing – your special recipe – and they turned out so great!!!! I can’t believe how cute they turned out, and OH-SO-YUMMY. I’ve been wanting to start making cookies (with your inspiration) to add my my cake decorating, but finally had the time/guts to try. Thank you so much for all your tips and motivation
If I hadn’t found your blog (been living vicariously through you for some time now) I don’t know if I’d ever try. I will post pics to the flickr group. 
For sure my mom love this cookie jar I really like it for her. Wish I saw this earlier.
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Mother’s Day is a great time to recognize our moms.This is a really cool idea and one that for sure will stand out for any mother.
I think I am missing something, but how is four dozen equal to 4,531?
This cookie jar idea is the cutest thing i have ever seen! I hope you don’t mind but I am giving you a shout out on my blog on Friday! I feature parties on Fridays. I was thinking of doing a Mother’s Day theme but wasn’t finding much until I started reading through my blog list and you came to the rescue!
- Heidi
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Thanks for being so wonderful
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Thank you very much for sharing your wonderful Mother’s Day ideas! I loved the sentiment cookies in the jar and made them for my mother who is battling cancer. She was very touched and it seemed especially appropriate this year. My sister also loved them and we decided to do a small version for her children to gift to their teachers for “Teacher appreciation” week. Thank you again for sharing your beautiful talents with us all!!!
this is seriously the cutest idea I have ever seen!
Being a rookie cookie decorator, and not that great at lettering, would the royal icing hold up to one of those edible marker pens? I love this idea, but would like it to turn out decently if I’m giving the cookies to anyone.
Yes! Definitely. That is a great suggestion!
I love this idea! i would really like to do this for my mom’s birthday at the end of the month. I can follow recipes really well but I am not very good at guessing what kind of ingredients to use. It sounds like you used just frozen cookies and that I can do for sure but can you tell me what kind of frosting to use/how to make it and what kind of icing to use/how to make it for the letters. Also, I love the big cookie on the side but how did you do that? how do you make a hole in it to tie the string and it not just break?
Also my mom and I live in different states so if anyone has any ideas on how to send it without the big cookie breaking that would be much appreciated!!
This idea is so great! my mom always loves when I make something for her (still as an adult) so this is perfect! thank you!!
Sorry i did not see your recipe for the icing. I will use that! but do you have the recipe for the sugar cookies? is there any way I can make them chocolate chip? my mom loves chocolate!
Also, what kind of jar are you using? where can I get one? sorry for all the questions. I am a newbie at all this but really want to learn!
Hi Alison! I used a big cookie jar I got a Target. Here is he best sugar cookie recipe of all time. http://iambaker.net/?s=sugar+cookies Here is a post on packing and shipping cookies. http://iambaker.net/how-to-package-and-ship-cookies/ I am sure your mom will be so thankful for your sweet gift! Blessings~
These are so cool! I would love to try them for some other holidays, as well. Thanks so much for sharing. I loved it so much that I featured it on my blog post about Mother’s Day gifts here: http://whittskitsfabricscrafts.blogspot.com/2013/04/mothers-day-diy-ideas.html with a direct link back here.
Thanks again,
Carrie