Cookie Gift Box

     This is a two part project. The first part is making the gift box and the second part is making the cookies.

Here's what you'll need:

Balsa wood band box. You can get these at most any craft store and they are really cheap.
Tacky glue.
Coffee Beans.
Acrylic wood stain.

Spread tacky glue all over the top of the lid for the box.
Place coffee beans all over the top. You can add more glue and pile them up a little bit.
Stain the sides of the box bottom.
Put the cookies you baked in the box and your gift is ready to give.

This is a very simple project but you won't believe how the eyes of the person you give it to light up.

Cookie Recipe, Chocolate Mocha Drop Cookies:

These are the cookies that you are supposed to make to go into the project box, the one with coffee beans on top. Mocha, coffee beans, you get it right? Anyhow these taste really great and will make a great gift. Make a double batch so you can keep some for yourself.

• 2 Cups Flour
• 1/2 Cup Shortening
• 1 Cup Brown Sugar
• 1/2 Cup Cocoa Powder
• 1 Egg
• 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 2 Tablespoons Instant Coffee Granules
• 3/4 Cup Milk
• 1/2 Cup Chopped Nuts (optional)

Mix all the ingredients together.
Drop a rounded Tablespoon of mix onto a greased cookie sheet.
Bake at 375 degrees F for 8 - 10 minutes.
Make a basic chocolate butter cream frosting and add 1 Tablespoon of Instant Coffee Granules.
Make a cookie sandwich by spreading the frosting on the flat side of one cookie and putting another cookie on top.
Put the cookies into the box you made and give them to someone special.

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