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
Never made anything in a jar yet, but plan on it for Christmas gifts. Excited to try it and hope that everyone will like it. Maybe even make one for the puppy with puppy treat ingredients!
One year i made pies in a jar. uncooked crust and filling were in the jar and you froze it. all you had to do was pop the jar in the oven. They were really yummy because, you know i had to quality control a few. Turned out to be a bummer as I made them for my uncle, who’s oven had just gone kaput. Oh well. My mom ended up eating them instead and loved them!
I’ve never made dessert in a jar, but I frequently make overnight oats in a jar and then bring them into work for breakfast!
I’ve never made any myself, but they look fun!
I keep a jar of homemade chai (based with sweetened condensed milk) in the fridge and have given them away. But I love this idea!
I once made a peanut butter cup mousse parfait in a jar.
I’ve made beer bread in a jar, chocolate brownie type things in a jar and corn dogs! 🙂
I’ve never made a dessert in a jar, but I’d love to try some cute cupcakes in jars! I have made yogurt parfaits in jars, though, and they were pretty yummy! (But I count that as breakfast!)
I’ve made lots of jar desserts. Last Christmas, I made Snowball Cookies in a jar and gave them out to the office staff at my kids’ school. The most recent jar thing I’ve made is much less exciting: hot cocoa. It was homemade hot cocoa, though!! :o)
This past Mother’s Day I did a project with my daycare kids (before I closed my daycare because we were moving) and my own kids where we layered ingredients in quart jars to make chocolate chip M&M cookies! They were a lot of fun to make, and fun to decorate with fabric and ribbon. My kids made the jars to give to their grandmas and great-grandmas. It was fun!