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. 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!

  2. What a gorgeous idea. I love words (sounds silly but you know what I mean), as does my mum. Maybe next year!

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

  5. That is such a cute idea Amanda! If I made you one of those creativity would be on a lot of them cookies 😉 lol

  6. 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!

  7. Oh, my mom would have LOVED getting cookies like these. How sweet, Amanda! You always have the BEST ideas!

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