Bridal Shower White-Chocolate Oatmeal Craisin Cookies!

While Dan was recovering from his previously mentioned ER trip(S) I had to run away to attend my best friend's bridal shower, of which these were the table decorations/gift favors:

This is a cute idea for a shower gift for your guests and is also delicious.  The recipe is based off the back of a bag of Craisins, but modified to fit into a standard size jam jar.

Ingredients for jars:

1/3 cup packed brown sugar

1/3 cup white sugar
3/4 cups quick cooking oats
3/4 cups AP flour
1/3 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 teaspoon baking powder
1/3 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup dried cranberries

Other Ingredients required (which obviously can't be pre-mixed into jars):
1 egg
1/3 cup butter softened to room temperature
1/3 teaspoon vanilla extract

mmmmm!

Directions
Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla on medium speed until creamed. Be sure to scrape the bowl every 30 seconds or so. Add the egg and mix until well blended and smooth.

In a separate bowl, mix the remaining dry ingredients reserving only the cranberries and dry oats. Incorporate dry ingredients into the creamed mixture in a single batch. Mix on low until just blended. Don't over mix or it will toughen the gluten in the cookies and ruin the texture. Fold in the oats and cranberries. Place onto parchment paper and roll into a tube. Refrigerate the mixture to cool the butter and let the gluten settle before baking.

Slice and place on a cookie sheet. Bake at 350F until golden brown and delicious. Cool on a wire rack.

Warning:
So, if you are using the recipe as a party favor, it's quite difficult to complete the recipe as a recipient because the ingredients will mix somewhat in the jar. No big deal of course, you can obviously bypass the recipe and just mix wet and dry ingredients and go at it. The end outcome won't be quite the same but it will be good in its own right. We were discussing and came up with a few ideas that might be simple and cheap enough to stop the ingredients from mixing in the jar. You can cut parchment paper into rounds using an empty food can and place them between the ingredient layers, or you can bag each ingredient separately into a colored cheesecloth and place in a slightly larger jar. This way you get to have your ingredients and eat them too. If anyone out there is reading and tries out the recipe, do us a favor and let us know the end result.