S’mores Cake in a Jar.
Oh friends.
Hi.
How are you?
Judging from the above picture, you can assume I’m doing well. I’m not going hungry, that’s for sure.
Guess what? I had a lovely dinner recipe to share with you today. Obviously, these s’mores jar cakes are not dinner. Unless your name is Jessica and you avoid skinny jeans like the plague and you still sleep with a baby blanket each night, even though you’re married.
S’mores jar cakes clearly top dinner recipes. You told me so. I asked you on Twitter. If you’re upset that you don’t have dinner for tonight… not my fault. If you’d rather see dinner than these s’more jar cakes… we obviously aren’t friends.
Let’s talk mason jars. Do you have any? If not, you can probably stop by a crafty store and pick some up for well under $5. I did that, even though I don’t do crafts. Mason jars are fun. They make me think of fireflies and moonshine and hot summer nights, although insects freak me out, one swig of the hard stuff and I’m out like a light, and spending every waking moment in air conditioning is my life. I sweat.
More on mason jars? I was a little scared, this being the first time I have baked with glass since I made you all glass shard brownies on super bowl Sunday. Mmmm… those were tasty. A little crunchy, but tasty. Not.
Just so we’re clear, s’mores jar cakes have buttery graham crusts covered with fluffy double chocolate chip cake and pillowy marshmallow toppings that are so perfectly browned and bubbly you can taste the campfire and smell the midnight July breeze.
Need more convincing? I think not.
S’mores Cake in a Jar
makes 4 16-ounce mason jar cakes
for crust:
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
1/2 stick butter
pinch of salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt butter and mix in graham crumbs and salt. Mix until moistened. Spray 4 mason jars with non-stick spray and press graham crust into jars. I began by adding a tablespoon to each, and repeating until graham crumbs were gone. They don’t need to look perfect. I pressed the crumbs down firmly with the flat bottom of a clean screwdriver.
for cake: (from peanut butter hot fudge cupcakes)
1 1/8 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup dark cocoa powder
1 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup + 1 tablespoon heavy cream
1/2 cup butter, melted
2 tablespoons sour cream
for topping:
1 bag of large marshmallows
In a bowl, whisk egg and sugar until smooth and no lumps remain. Add milk, cream, butter and vanilla, and mix until combined. Stir in sour cream. Sift dry ingredients together and add to wet mixture. Mix until batter is smooth. Using a 1/4 cup measure, add batter to mason jars one scoop at a time. You only want to fill them up about half way, and the batter should work evenly for 4 jars. Again – don’t worry if it is perfect. Place mason jars in a baking dish and add about 1 1/2 cups of water to the bottom. Bake for 30 minutes, or until cake is set.
Remove cake from the oven and press large marshmallows down on top, being careful not to burn yourself. There is no set number of marshmallows to use, I pressed down as many as I could, about 4-5 each. Heat the broiler on your oven and watching carefully, brown marshmallows for about 1-2 minutes, or until golden brown. Do not take your eyes off them! Serve immediately.
Notes
*The recipe looks really long, but it is actually really easy! *When you put the marshmallows on top and broil, they may sink down below the edges of the chocolate cake. This is normal. The cake it still more than halfway to the top. *These are pretty rich and sweet, and make a really great dessert for two people to share with two spoons… but can still be eaten by one. *You can use other sizes of jars, just use your eye to decided how much batter to use, never going over half way. If you have too much batter, just make a few cupcakes.
Perhaps tonight’s dinner should be more… balanced? Nah.
638 Comments on “S’mores Cake in a Jar.”
Oh my goodness. These look incredible Jessica!!
I want one for breakfast. :)
You sure know the way to a girl’s heart! hahahah or sweet tooth
Oh you are evil in the best way :)
Jessica…amazing work.
Wow…just the whole concept is fabulous. The recipe itself, great. But just the act of getting it in a jar. So creative!
And ballsy. Given your glass explosion sitch that was just a few weeks ago!
The pics w/ the brick wall in the back..fabulous way to “tell the story”…there are 17 things about this post and recipe I am loving!
I wish I lived closer to you. I’d be over every day for dessert.
Actually, I’m glad I don’t live closer to you. I like my jeans.
What a perfect dinner! ;) no complaints here! I have a s’mores obsession :-)
Oh my goodness…I dont think I will die happy if I dont get to try these at least once
I can only imagine what it would be like to eat one of these: I’m thinking messy and amazing.
Oh. My. God. I love you.
You are the BEST writer EVER!! I always love your stories that go along with your recipes :) (I think I’ve told you this before..but I had to tell you again :) )
The descriptions in this post want me to make s’mores & I don’t even like s’mores. (Please don’t hate me!)
You are just so clever & the most amazing writer, Jess!!
Thank you! ;)
This looks amazing! I have such a sweet tooth just look at this is driving me crazy!!
i’ll have to try this once i dust off my jars in the garage!
These are beautiful! We drink/eat as much as we can from mason jars! It’s the best part of our collection of dishes! Love these!
Mmm, breakfast on-the-go, perhaps?
You could totally pump these up by adding a peanut butter-sugar layer. And/or a bacon layer.
These look awesome – I’m going to make them, and will hopefully remember to send you a picture :D
I want to stuff my mouth with that marshamallowy goodness.
I love your writing! Love how you opened your post and how you described smelling the July air. When is summer going to get here Jessica? :) How perfect these would be on a warm summer night…
Thanks so much!
That looks unbelievable! You always have the prettiest food pics!
Thanks!
They look awesome! I bought some mason jars but haven’t used them yet. I have plans for them this week, though.
Pretty and yum! And I am totally obsessed with mason jars, in case you haven’t noticed based on my Pinterest boards ;)
These are such a great idea!! Love the jars too – it seems everything is better in a jar… smores in a jar, oats in a jar…. think I need to get some!
These look amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I might have to ask the next group to bring jumbo marshmallows and graham crackers!!! :D
omg. OMG. OMG!!!! i think i just died & went to heaven. :)
you’ve completely won me over….these look amazing!!!
This looks so delicious! I love mason jars!
Love that the recipe instructions call for a screwdriver! ;)
Ever since I had butterscotch pudding in a jar a few weeks ago, I’ve been wanting to make desserts in a jar. It is so much more fun that way! These look delicious! Smores are perfect in my eyes :)
This. Is. Incredible!!!!!!!!! I wish I were a baker and I’d make them tonight.
And be honest Jess, you meant jars remind you of Firefly Sweet Tea Vodka – not fireflies the bugs :)
please stop posting all things S’mores…it’s my weakness!!!! These look divine!! :)
Looks like I need to get to a craft store soon!
Pure decadence! They look incredible. I love how they explode out of the jars. Deliciousness
These look so FUN. How I love s’mores!
Genius. Delicious. Yum. I like these because I can probably throw one in my purse as a to-go treat. People will probably judge when I pull it out, but I bet they’d be jealous too…
Brilliant idea. Ignore judgy people.
OMG these look incredible. I’m thinking they’d be good at the drive-in this summer.
I’ve never been to a drive-in! Sad.
I can’t believe you were brave enough to bake in those Mason jars after the brownie explosion! I’m glad you were, though…these look AMAZING! :-)
Oh for the love…these look insanely amazing. And lucky us – we have those jars sitting around just waiting to be filled with this deliciousness.
this is ridiculous. you have won my heart. amazing, amazing, amazing. how do you think of these things? Can you please, please, please invite me over for dinner?
DROOL. I want one of those noowwwwww
There is two sticks of butter in the cake-is one room temp and th other melted and you add them in at the same time? Just checking since they aren’t listed together in the recipe
Oops that is a typo – only the melted butter is in the cake. Just fixed it!
Oh.my.word. How do you even come up with these ridiculously tempting treats? I just want to live at your house for a week (or more) and drink milkshakes and eat cake. Pretty please?
I really don’t have a life… and you are more than welcome. Bring Baby Cakes.
omg. i want to go to there.
These look incredible!! Seriously drooling over here.
I love anything and everything in a mason jar :) they’re so fun!
I wonder what these would be like with peeps instead of marshmallows? Experimentation may be required.. And bacon. I seem to be almost as preoccupied with bacon as you are these days. Almost. ;)
I think they would be very pretty and colorful!!
oh my goodness.
Heaven.in.a.jar.
and I’m done
Love the smores in a jar! For what it’s worth, I’m all about buying art suppiles but being incredibly unsuccessful with them. I routinely go to Michales and always get the following question:
“That’s a lot of material. What are you making?”
“Nothing. I’m just going to set it down. I don’t know how to do anything else.”
I get the strange looks then. I’m very happy to now tell the clerk that I will be making a cake in a jar this time. Purpose…thank you for giving it to me.
Oh damn. Not only are these GORGEOUS, they look DELICIOUS. How fun would these be for an upscale BBQ dessert?!
Wow! You have outdone yourself this time!! I am loving treats made in a mason jar – too cute. I figure something so cute can’t possibly be high cal ;-)
I know, right? ;)
when I first saw those, I got nervous that you were playing with fire in your kitchen….I always forget that MarshmAlllow has an A not an E in it….
anyway…those marshmallows look awesome. something about them in the spring/summer/fall just makes me smile :)
Holy Heavens! Those look amazing!