51 baked jar recipes

A unique applesauce cake baked directly in sterilized canning jars, creating shelf-stable gifts that can be sealed and stored at room temperature.

Moist, spiced zucchini bread with cinnamon, cloves, and pecans baked right inside canning jars for easy gifting and long shelf life. Seal them while hot and they'll keep for weeks. The ultimate homemade food gift.

Pumpkin spice cake baked in canning jars with walnuts, raisins, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger. Individual-sized treats perfect for gifting or fall bake sales.

Peanut butter cookies loaded with chopped Baby Ruth bars for chunks of caramel, nougat, and roasted peanuts in every bite. Drop, flatten with a fork, bake until golden.

Peanut butter and jelly streusel bars with a brown sugar PB cookie base, strawberry jam middle, and oat-crumble topping. The lunchbox sandwich reinvented for the cookie tray.

Lemon bars with an oat-brown sugar crumble crust and a tangy sweetened condensed milk lemon filling. Crumbly, creamy, and tart in every bite.

Harvest pumpkin bars with canned pumpkin, cinnamon, and a smart soy flour boost for extra protein. Soft, moist sheet pan bars perfect for fall potlucks.

Chocolate peanut butter cheesecake on a peanut butter cookie and chocolate wafer crust, topped with white chocolate peanut butter glaze and a chocolate drizzle.

Apricot almond bars with a buttery shortbread crust, spiced almond meringue topping, apricot glaze, and chocolate drizzle. Four layers of European-style pastry in every square.

Peanut butter chocolate layer bars with a peanut butter Oreo crust, chopped peanuts, chocolate chips, and coconut drizzled with sweetened condensed milk.

Chewy peanut butter chip bars with deep cocoa brownie batter and pockets of peanut butter chips. A jelly-roll pan recipe that yields four dozen fudgy chocolate bars.

Three-layer pumpkin bars built on a yellow cake mix base with spiced pumpkin custard center and a buttery cake-mix streusel top. Makes 24 bars in a 9x13 pan.

Mississippi mud bars layer fudgy pecan-studded brownies under a glossy chocolate frosting and another shower of toasted pecans. Cut into small bars, they yield over four dozen from one 9x13 pan. Southern bake-sale royalty.

Quick oatmeal bars with apple butter, coconut, and brown sugar baked into chewy squares ready in 30 minutes for easy lunch box treats or snacks.

This recipe was created when I made a mistake in making it. It was originally suppose to a brownie type dessert, but I used a jelly roll pan and didn't use enough butter. The end result became a hit and is alway requested and raved about.

Sticky pecan bars with a buttery shortbread crust and gooey brown sugar-corn syrup filling loaded with pecan halves. Like pecan pie in bar form, easier to make and easier to share.