So you guys.
I have this book. It’s called Desserts In Jars. I have talked about it before a few times…
I love it.
It’s written by the sweet Shaina Olmanson who also happens to write the site Food For My Family, which is great!
Since it’s the holiday season and everyone is gifting sweet treats, there hasn’t been a more perfect time to get the Desserts in Jars and invest in some sweet jars (HERE are the ones I use for most recipes in the book).
While I was flipping through the pages of the book I came across the fun recipe for “Campfire Bars”…
While everyone else is giving cookie trays, I thought it would be fun to give a jar with all the ingredients for a sweet treat that my friends could make when they weren’t being inundated with already made treats.
So that’s what I did.
And while “Campfire Bars” sound all outdoorsy and camp-ish, I guarantee you they are not. You bake these inside your warm home with your oven. No campfire needed.
I mean, if you want to eat them BY a fire, well, that’s totally your choice…and I think a nice fire in the fireplace would work perfectly well!
So back to my bars.
All you ‘ll need is a 1 quart jar (like THESE)
Just layer your ingredients…
It’s totally easy.
Also, you can attach a cute label on the top of the jar, or on your ribbon with the directions.
Shaina has some already made labels for these HERE.
Giving this as a gift along with the Desserts in Jars book would make such a sweet hostess gift!
So I decided, just for quality control I needed to make the bars.
I’m a good friend like that.
And the thing about these bars is they couldn’t be simpler. All you have to add to your ingredients is melted butter.
Yep.
That’s it.
Spread it into your pan and bake. That’s it.
They come out like a sweet, crunchy bar/bark.
Sweet and sticky and totally addicting.
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Campfire Bars
Description
makes 1 jar mix, enough to make 16 bars prepared
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups graham crackers, chopped into 1 inch squares
- 1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
- 3/4 cup milk chocolate chips (I used Hershey’s Baking Kisses
- 1/2 cup granola
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
Instructions
- Layer all ingredients in a 1 quart jar in order they are listed. Seal with a lid.
- To make bars, mix all ingredients with a bowl with 8 tbsp of melted butter.
- Spread in an 8×8 baking pan and bake at 350° for 12-15 minutes.
- Cool completely before cutting.
Notes
recipe adapted from Desserts in Jars
For my son’s 5th birthday, we celebrated at a kid’s cooking school. Him and his friends were able to make their own pizzas and were encouraged to be creative about it…no typical “round” pizzas. We had dinosaur pizzas, race car pizzas, robot pizzas, etc. To go along with the “cooking” theme, I made “Dessert in a Jar” type favors for each kid. The recipe was for Cowboy Cookies. I used mason jars and tied a pretty fabric over the lid with raffia and attached a mini whisk. The card thanked everyone for coming, a note to the parents about this being a fun cooking project to do with the kids, especially on a rainy day and the recipe of course! Thanks for your blog….LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!!
I would love to win this book. I have never given gifts in a jar … it might be time to start.
Have given gifts in a jar – hot chocolate and cookie mixes – in the past. Would be fun to do it again using recipes from this book.
Have not made anything, but would sure like to try some of these recipe ideas!
I made pudding smores in a jar, from Cookies and Cups, I think!
I have made pie in a jar, and have made bread recipes in jars also.
The.Boy. is always trying to get me to go camping…maybe if I bake him these he’ll forget. It’s kind of the same thing, right?
I made chocolate chip cookie mix in jars one year for one of the items in gift baskets I made for friends. I took mushroom baskets and hot glued red and white gingham fabric to the basket as a basket liner. I added the mix in a jar, homemade macadamia nut bread, homemade beer cheese and a jar of homemade hot fudge sauce. It was a huge hit! I’d like to have other gift ideas in jars – not as basic as the chocolate chip cookie mix.
Desserts in a jar are great to give to co workers. Brownies in a jar sound good.
I absolutely love anything in a jar. I have only attempted to make one thing so far and that was peach pie!