RECIPES: I use my favorite sugar cookie recipe and my special version of royal icing.

Are you ready for my next Mothers Day gift idea??? Its only two weeks away!

Cause I don’t 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.

It’s a Mothers Day Cookie jar.

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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.


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The idea came to me one day as I was trying to find words to describe my mom.

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I didn’t use every word on this list… I have no idea where “sprightly” came from.

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Although its time consuming, its really very easy to do! Two colors of icing. Four dozen cookies. Just writing out words.

Totally do-able.

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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.

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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!

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I use my favorite sugar cookie recipe and my special version of royal icing.

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Meet Amanda Rettke

Amanda Rettke is the creator of I Am Baker, and the bestselling author of Surprise Inside Cakes: Amazing Cakes for Every Occasion – With a Little Something Extra Inside.Over the course of her 15+ year blogging adventure, she has been featured in and collaborated with the Food Network, New York Times, LA Times, Country Living Magazine, People Magazine, Epicurious, Brides, Romantic Homes, life:beautiful, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Mail, Star Tribune, The Globe and Mail, DailyCandy, YumSugar, The Knot, The Kitchn, and Parade, to name a few.

Reader Comments

  1. 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*

  2. 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.

  3. 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!

  4. 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!

  5. 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!

  6. What a GREAT idea! I might do it for my daughters that are now moms since my mom is no longer living. Love it!

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