Kitchen Canisters Work Well As Alternate Cookie Jars

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Pretty and practical kitchen canisters can easily double as cookie jars. This is a handy way to repurpose individual pieces where you don't have the whole set.

Don't get me wrong. I love cookie jars. I've had my share over the years, including the blue Cookie Monster. At home we had one of those 1950s crockery jars with A B C on it, and Grandma had the classic Little etiquettes personnalisées Riding Hood cookie jar.

I love to use my vintage dishes, but when it comes to valuable cookie jars, I don't want to risk little hands chipping the china as they hurry to grab a treat. This is one very good reason why kitchen canisters can take over the job.

Canisters come in various sizes. A set usually consists of flour, sugar, coffee and tea, with the largest designed for flour and the smallest intended for tea. You can use the flour size for larger cookies, and a coffee or tea size for smaller ones.

You can select the colors, shape and materials to harmonize with your kitchen decor. The universe of canisters has no limits. Many are stoneware or ceramic, but they are also available in metal and plastic.
Use the set for cookies if you like, especially at holiday times. Chocolate chip could go in one cookie jar, Mexican wedding cakes in another, and peanut butter in a third. You get the idea.
Also consider the decor in your kitchen. If you have a chicken theme kitchen, for example, there is a canister for you. Or Pooh. Or apples. Pretty much any motif you like.
Some canisters have a plastic seal between top and bottom, others do not. If you feel you need something to preserve freshness, you can choose a canister with this feature. If the piece you want to use does not have this feature, make a rolled tube of plastic wrap to place around the top of the jar, where the lid fits (like a rubber gasket). Or put a large, zip top bag inside the jar, and seal the cookies inside.

As for the cookies, once your cookie eaters, big and small, know where the goodies are, they won't need a jar labeled "Cookies" to find their treats. Your tasty homemade cookies won't last long, no matter how you store them.