VANILLA CAKE IN A JAR I HOW TO

A simple and easy way to make individual  servings of dessert that are perfectly portable  is baking in a jar,  These are super cute  and a great  way to put up my canning jars for a good use. Baking in jars give you an opportunity to present packaged baked  goods to your friends and family.   Wrap  pretty ribbon around the sealed jars complete with a special card.

You can use any basic cake recipe but I  prefer  this simple and quick ones.  There are  so many recipes that can be baked in jars.  Vanilla Cake In a Jar is baked with melted butter instead of oil and added just half a cup of sugar, this suits my taste.

This  Vanilla Cake In a Jar recipe  filled  3 jars of  18-oz, this  is  the size I had at the moment.   By using a 12-oz jar, you could get more than 3 definitely.  It is important to use wide mouth canning jars for filling the batter with ease and would slide out easily.  Make sure the use a proper jars that can withstand the heat and safe for baking..

VANILLA CAKE IN A JAR I HOW TO
Yield   :   3 jars

2 cups plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup melted butter
1 1/4 cup milk
1 egg
1/2 - 3/4 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence

METHOD

Preheat oven @ 175  C and  oil  your jars really well using pastry brush. . .

With a whisk, combine flour and  baking powder  in a bowl.

In a separate bowl,  beat together  melted butter , egg, sugar, vanilla  and  milk. .

Pour wet  mixture into dry ingredients, stir until  just combined.

Carefully spoon mixture into  jars, fill only half full,  Put  jars  in  8 in pan. put the  pan in the preheated oven,  bake for  40-50  minutes or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.  Remove and allow to cool.

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