It can get expensive purchasing cute little tins to put gifts in. Especially around the holidays when you have a lot of cookies to give as gifts.
My husband jokingly picks on me for all the little tins and containers that I save. He thinks they're going to take over the house. He's exaggerating. Trust me. It's not like the box collection that I had when I was 19. My father burned them all when we were getting to move to Vermont from Pennsylvania because he refused to use up valuable and costly space in the moving truck. It took me a while to get over that. *wink*
Anyway....I always know that I can use these little containers for goodies....you all know how much I love to bake.
The container that I used from this project was left over from the candy I ate from one of my kids' fundraisers a couple years ago. It's such a great size for cookies!
And speaking of cookies....you all know how much I love peanut butter and chocolate together. I used my mom's recipe for her Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies with Hershey's Kisses. This is my favorite Peanut Butter cookie recipe EVER. It's never dry or crumbly. Not overly sweet....and even though I used natural peanut butter with NO sugar in it, these cookies were still the perfect sweetness! I decided to use this recipe for my Bake it, Make it & Take it post.
Oh....and this is a great project to do with your kids or grandkids, or even yourself or a couple of girlfriends this weekend. Or what about next week when the kids have off from school? Do you have any elderly neighbors that would love a little visit from you with some cookies to boot? It's a wonderful way to spread some holiday cheer.
I covered my tin with paper from the Ski Slope Designer Series pack of paper (Stampin' UP) and then wrapped a piece of the red polka dotted Pure Luxury Holiday Ribbon from GinaK Designs.
I used my Coluzzle cutting system to cut a circle of patterned paper to decorate the top of the tin, though you can always substitute this with a holiday bow or a tag if you like.
The stamped image on the front of the tin is from Rupa Shevde's set, The Magic of Christmas (from GinaK Designs). I mounted it on top of a striped piece of patterned paper (from the Ski Slope pack).
All of the little snowflakes on the side of the tin were done using the same stamp set as the greeting. There's quite a few snowflakes in this set (and I LOVE snowflakes) and I use the three large ones. I inked them up first with Versamark ink and then directly with Riding Hood Red or Baja Breeze (I did 3 of each). I then sprinkled them with Irridescent Ice embossing powder and heat embossed them. I punched them out with the 1 1/4 inch circle punch and mounted them on Riding Hood Red and Blue Bayou cardstock circles that I punched out using the 1 3/8 inch circle punch. I mounted them around the tin with pop-dots.
Just one batch of my mom's Peanut Butter Blossom Cookies with Hershey's Kisses makes a TON of cookies, so you have more than enough to hand out to friends and still have plenty to snack on for yourself....or even leave a couple out on a plate with a glass of milk on Christmas Eve.
And if you're looking for some more creative baking and packaging ideas, make sure to check out my other posts here:
Happy Creating and baking!
-Stampin' Mama
What a great way to recycle those tins, I know what your DH means about saving them, mine's the same way, however, I keep them in the stamp room, so he doesn't really know how many I've saved. And the cookies are perfect.
Posted by: Norma Woodward | December 20, 2008 at 05:56 PM
Your right. This little tin is perfect for cookies. Just goes to show you that collecting tins are a very smart thing to do. You just never know when one of them will come in handy. :) Your tin came out wonderful Erika. Thanks so much for sharing your Bake it, Make it and Take it with all of us. Now I am headed over to your Moms blog to get her recipe for delicious looking cookies.
Mary
Posted by: Mary C. Anderson | December 22, 2008 at 01:32 AM
Cute tin! I love the idea of reusing containers. I noticed on PCP that today is your birthday. Happy Birthday! The cookies are wonderful. I make peanut butter cookies with a mini resese peanut butter cup in the middle. I use my mini muffin pan that I grease first than put a scoop of dough in the cup and push a mini peanut butter cup in the middle and bake.
Posted by: Anita A | December 22, 2008 at 09:11 PM
I re-use containers too! Love your tin. It's gorgeous.
Posted by: asela | December 23, 2008 at 07:55 AM