Brownies in a Jar

• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 95 g plain flour
• 35 g cocoa
• 75 g self raising flour
• 135 g brown sugar
• 150 g sugar
• 90 g chocolate chips
• 90g white chocolate chips
• 50 g walnuts or pecans

Combine the contents of the jar with 150g melted butter and 3 beaten eggs.  Mix well, and pour into a lined 9 x 9 inch tin.  Bake at Gas 4 / 180 C (160 fan) / 350 F for 25-35 minutes.

• Layer the ingredients in a one litre jar.  I tried to alternate the different coloured ingredients where possible.

• There was a little gap between the last ingredient and the lid.  As my jars had to go in the post, I didn’t want all the layers mixing together.  So I scrunched up some christmas tissue paper to fill the gap.  Hopefully this will keep all the ingredients in layers.

• Then decorate the jars.  I taped some ribbon onto the body of the jars.  I purposefully taped rather than glue gunned, as I wanted the jars to be easily reusable.

• I made some little salt dough stars that I sprayed with silver paint to make a garland, which I never got round to making.  So these little stars made the perfect addition to the fastening of my jars.  I popped on a big silver bow.  All my ribbon came from Wilko for £1 per roll.

• For the tag: I simply cut out a Christmas tree shape from white card and wrote the title on one side and the ‘how to make’ on the other.  Punched a hole and attached it with ribbon.

• That’s it, a good wrapping of bubble wrap and the were ready to post.

Let’s hope the friends receiving them like brownies!  Do you like homemade presents?