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May 11, 2017 By Brandy 28 Comments

Home » Recipes » Dessert Recipes » Cookie Recipes

Scripture Cookies In a Jar (Video)

Filed Under: Cookie Recipes, Dessert Recipes, Gift Ideas, Teacher Gifts

A fun young women activity and treat all in one! Scripture cookies in a jar. Search scripture verses to find the ingredients. Pack into a jar and send home with each girl to make for her family! Would make a fun family home activity as well. This post contains affiliate links.

Looking for another fun activity to make with young women? Check out our acrylic necklaces and pocket fans!

 

Watch our step by step video!

I work with the 12 and 13 year old teenage girls in our church’s youth group. The girls are so sweet and adorable at that age! We meet on Tuesday nights for youth group activities. I needed to come up with an activity the week that we were moving out of our house. I decided to use up some pantry ingredients at the same time and voila! Scripture Cookies in a Jar. A spiritual activity and practical one all in one. I had everything I needed already!

Scripture Cookies In a Jar Worksheet

I made a printable worksheet that you can use too. Just click here to print! Search the scripture references for the key ingredients. ANSWERS: flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, raisins, oats, white sugar and brown sugar, butter, egg.

I had a bunch of plastic pint sized jars leftover from a project so I customized my recipe to fit inside of them. These plastic jars are great to keep on hand for projects with kids. They don’t break! Everything fits inside, with very little room to spare. If you use a Mason pint sized jar, leave the raisins or chocolate chips out and place in a baggie. Both the plastic and mason jar are pint size, but for some reason the glass jars hold a little less. You can also use a larger jar.

Layering Ingredients for Scripture Cookie Jars

Watch our video to see how we perfectly layered everything to fit in the jar. Here is the order that works best:

Start with flour then add baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Add chocolate chips and oats. Pack down tightly. Finally add the sugars. Pack down again. 

Note: the scripture reference for oats comes from the Doctrine & Covenants. A book of scripture used by the LDS faith. If you are not of the LDS faith, you can use a scripture that refers to any sort of grain and have the kids use that for oats instead.

I brought both raisins and chocolate chips and let the girls decide which ones they wanted to use. (Mostly because I don’t like raisins in cookies and assume others might feel the same way!)

finished cookies with printable worksheet
The activity was a success and each girl went home with a worksheet that they had filled out together and a jar of cookie ingredients.

teenagers preparing jars with ingredients
When they got home all they had to do was add an egg, 1/3 c. butter, and 1/2 tsp. of vanilla to their mixture.

chocolate chip cookies stacked on parchment paper
Each jar will make approximately 15-18 cookies. And the cookies are REALLY GOOD. Double the batch and make them on your own sometime. So delicious! I had an extra jar and put it in our RV and made them for our family when we were in Oregon. You can see my easy bake sized oven that I’m using for baking in my RV this summer here in this photo, ha! It works pretty good though!

close up shot of scripture cookies in jar
Looking at the measurements of ingredients, it’s hard to imagine that they’ll all fit inside, but they do. Just pack down the sugar and oats and everything will fit just right!

 

scripture cookies jar with printable worksheet
Scripture cookies in a jar would make a fun family home evening activity as well. Just skip the jar part and place you ingredients into a bowl!

girl holding jar of scripture cookie ingredients

Download your printable cookies in a jar worksheet here!

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Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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  1. JESS44903 says

    May 15, 2017 at 9:42 am

    What a neat idea! 🙂

    I would love for you to share this with my Facebook Group for recipes, crafts, tips, and tricks: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pluckyrecipescraftstips/

    Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J!

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  2. Jenna says

    May 15, 2017 at 10:21 am

    This is such a cute idea! 😀 I would love to make these for my family 🙂
    -Jenna <3
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  3. Tuned In Parents says

    May 16, 2017 at 2:47 pm

    I’ve gone my whole life without eating cookies in a jar. Not cool! And not another day, lol. A must try. Mmm! Thanks for this recipe!

    Reply
  4. tara8910 says

    May 17, 2017 at 3:01 pm

    I LOVE this idea! I pinned it and shared it to my Minivan Ministries Facebook page. Thanks for sharing! I found you through the “A Little Bird Told Me” link up!

    Reply
  5. Miz Helen says

    May 30, 2017 at 11:51 am

    Congratulations!
    Your recipe was featured on Full Plate Thursday Top Ten. Your recipe has been pinned to our Feature’s and thanks so much for sharing with us!
    Miz Helen

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    • Brandy says

      June 2, 2017 at 2:01 pm

      thanks so much!

      Reply
  6. Heidi says

    October 4, 2017 at 7:52 am

    On your post you said to use 1 tsp of vanilla but on the paper it says 1/2 teaspoon. Which is the correct one? Thank you for this awesome idea! We are doing it tonight for mutual!

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    • Brandy says

      October 4, 2017 at 10:08 am

      1/2 tsp. THANK YOU for letting me know! Changing it right now 🙂

      Reply
  7. Lindsay says

    October 22, 2018 at 12:05 pm

    What size jars did you use?

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    • Brandy says

      October 23, 2018 at 11:39 am

      Hi Lindsay! We used pint-sized plastic containers (jars) from Oriental Trading.

      Reply
  8. Natalie says

    November 2, 2018 at 10:26 am

    Such a great idea! I can’t wait to try it! I have a question what did you use to replace calamus?

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    • Brandy says

      November 2, 2018 at 3:22 pm

      I don’t remember calamus being in the scriptures. Which one? These are the ingredients used in the jar. Hope that helps! flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, raisins, oats, white sugar and brown sugar, butter, egg.

      Reply
  9. Natalie says

    November 12, 2018 at 10:59 am

    I love this idea! I wanted to do this quart sized jars. Do you know the measurements that would fit for that? I was thinking of just doubling it…

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      November 12, 2018 at 2:27 pm

      Doubling it should work! 🙂

      Reply
  10. Janet Brown says

    January 1, 2019 at 9:31 am

    Thank you I’m gonna have my HIVE make these this week!

    Reply
  11. Mikell Della-Lucia says

    March 28, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    I would like to make these with my Miamaids, but would like to make sure I have the right sized jar. Do you by chance know how many oz there are in the bottles you used. I tried looking it up on Oriental trading, but could not find the bottles you used.

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    • Brandy says

      March 28, 2019 at 2:35 pm

      Hi Mikell! I used these pint sized plastic jars from Oriental Trading. I think there are 16 oz. to them. https://www.orientaltrading.com/pint-mason-jars-a2-13706298.fltr?keyword=jars

      Reply
  12. Brandy says

    April 4, 2019 at 11:39 am

    Oh no! I just saw this and it’s too late for you now, but I did fix the type-o! This post is 2 years old and has been used dozens of times and nobody else caught it. Thank you for letting me know! I am so sorry!

    Reply
  13. Alex says

    May 5, 2019 at 12:53 pm

    Should the butter be softened or melted?

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    • Brandy says

      May 6, 2019 at 12:34 pm

      Softened.

      Reply
  14. Alisha Herzog says

    September 11, 2019 at 2:23 pm

    I can’t wait to do this with my beehives tonight! Do you use quick oats or regular? TIA!

    Reply
    • Brandy says

      September 12, 2019 at 12:17 pm

      Regular, but quick would work as well!

      Reply
  15. MelissaA says

    March 12, 2020 at 12:05 pm

    Did this for a Young Women activity and had to leave out much of the oats because all the ingredients did not fit in a pint size jar.

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    • Brandy says

      March 12, 2020 at 2:58 pm

      I’m sorry they didn’t fit perfectly. We used plastic pint jars and I would assume a pint is a pint, but that is just so odd! We also packed down the ingredients as we went, especially the oats. I hope the cookies turned out delicious anyway for the girls anyway!

      Reply
  16. Melissa Mills says

    August 22, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Hi there! Is there a video that goes along with this that I’m missing? I looked a few times and wasn’t able to see a link to a video. I know this is an old post, so I’m not sure you’ll even see this comment.

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    • Brandy says

      August 22, 2020 at 9:49 pm

      Hi Melissa! There is a video attached to the post. I’m not sure why it isn’t showing up for you. So strange because I can see it! Maybe an ad blocker is on? I’ll try to email it to you.

      Reply
  17. Annette says

    October 1, 2020 at 5:32 pm

    Tried this activity last night with my YW and they loved the idea. However I tried baking the cookies today and they fell flat! Not sure what happened. 😩

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    • Brandy says

      October 2, 2020 at 10:19 am

      Hi Anette! I’m not sure what could have happened either. I had several extra jars and filled them when I made them with my YW and baked them at home. They were totally fine. I’m sorry I’m not more help to you!

      Reply

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