Colorful Candy Drop Cookies Mix
1 ½ cups light brown sugar, packed

3 1/3 cups flour

½ tsp baking soda

1 tsp salt

1 cup chopped walnuts

1 cup peanut M&Ms

1 cup regular M&Ms

Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. In quart jar, create layers in this order: flour mixture, peanut M&Ms, brown sugar, regular M&Ms and walnuts. Seal jar and decorate as desired. Option: Make it a gift basket! Include with the jar mix large size bags of M&Ms and include a jar a peanut butter too.

Attach to Jar:
Colorful Candy Drop Cookies
1 Jar Colorful Candy Drop Cookies Mix
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
½ cup (1 stick) butter
¼ cup peanut butter
½ cup vegetable shortening
With mixer, cream butter, shortening, eggs and vanilla. Add peanut butter. Combine mixture with jar mix and stir well by hand. Drop cookies by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375°F 8 to 10 minutes. Makes about 6 dozen cookies.