We love homemade Christmas gifts and this recipe for chocolate chip cookies.  Every year we try to make a plate of cookies for neighbors.

This year we created a cookie tub – made from the same spread container we used to help make our batch. Thank you Country Crock for inspiring this activity and for filling my Tupperware cabinet with tons of tubs – we use them for almost everything!

make a matching tub for the chocolate chip cookies

I love how the tub helps protect the cookies from going stale as quickly since they are sealed up. My son felt oh. so. grown-up using the hot glue gun to help me wrap yarn around the sides of the tub. It took a little longer than we expected and we had a couple singed fingertips – but he is proud with the results of his efforts.

Let’s make this amazing 12 dozens cookie recipe

My husband has a cookie recipe that creates 12 dozen cookies. We fill up two empty Country Crock, crocks full of the dough. It is perfect for the kids to scoop out spoonfuls for an after-school snack, or to pop into the oven whenever we have an unexpected guest. I think we might fill up the crocks with dough next time, let the recipient of our homemade Christmas gift scoop the cookies out whenever is best for them. The dough will keep for over 2 weeks refrigerated.

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Levi’s 12 dozens Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe ingredients

Wet Ingredients

• 1 1/3 cup of All-Vegetable shortening
• 2/3 cup of Country Crock Spread
• 1/4 cup of water
• 3 eggs
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract

Dry Ingredients

• 3/4 cup of white sugar
• 1 cup of dark brown sugar
• 4 cups of flour
• 3 cups of oats
• 1/2 tablespoon of baking soda
• 2 teaspoons of salt
• 2 bags of chocolate chips (one milk chocolate the other dark chocolate)

How to make 12 dozens chocolate chip cookie recipe

These cookies are so amazing!

Step 1

Blend all the wet ingredients until it is no longer lumpy.

Step 2

Add the dry ingredients and mix well. Check for undissolved flour, but don’t overmix!

Step 3

We split the dough into two tubs and put them both in the fridge overnight. A quick tip: The dough is best if it sits overnight so the oats soften.

(Before we had 6 kids, one tub would go in the freezer and the other into the fridge, now they both go in the fridge and are gobbled up at an alarming rate!)

Step 4

Bake the cookies at 350 degrees for roughly 12 min.

Step 5

Let the cookies cool down and transfer them to the cookie tubs. (Or you may eat them immediately!)

add a customized Printable Cookie Recipe Cards

We thought it would be fun to add a little customization to your gift-giving this year with some Christmas Cookie printable recipe cards.

• Here is a printable recipe card for this yummy Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe to give with your gift:  Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe Card
• This is a card where you can add your own delicious cookie recipe:  Cookie Recipe Card
• And here is one that the kids can color and decorate before you add the recipe {or use this as a Christmas coloring sheet}:  Cookie Coloring Page

Did you try this awesome 12 dozens chocolate chip cookie recipe? How many people smiled because you shared it with them?

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