You'll Want Every One of These Cute Cookie Jars on Your Counter

Is there anything more irresistible on a countertop than a canister full of your favorite cookies? Whether you're storing classic sugar cookies, oatmeal slice-and-bakes, or butterscotch chocolate cookies, cute cookie jars keep your treats fresh and double as decorations. They're versatile, too: If you don't like cookies (it's okay, you're forgiven!), you can also use them to store candy, flour, and more.

Ree Drummond loves vintage-looking cookie jars so much that she included them in The Pioneer Woman homeware collection, and she's even sold a basset hound cookie jar inspired by her pups! That's hardly the craziest creation someone's come up with, though: The earliest cookies jars, which likely originated in England, were pretty plain, but by the mid-1930s decorative ones like fairy-tale characters were introduced in the U.S. Soon nearly every American potter was making figural cookie jars—there was even a museum dedicated to them in Lemworth, IL, until 2004. Today you can still find lots of vintage jars, if that's something you'd like to add to your collection.

Read on for 12 charming and cute cookies jars you can buy right now, including simple glass canisters and novelty containers shaped like a rooster and a bulldog. While cookies are on your mind, check out these Easter cookies, Christmas cookies, and Valentine's Day cookies. Or do like Ree and instead of storing your cookies, use them to make next-level ice cream sandwiches!