Chocolate Cake Baked in a Jar
- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
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8 cakes
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter, plus
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 cups unsweetened applesauce
- 3 cups flour
- 3⁄4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
directions
- Preheat oven to 325°.
- Pre-wash (8 pint-sized wide mouth canning jars) canning jars (be sure to use the kind that have no shoulders) in hot, soapy water.
- Rinse well, dry and let them come to room temperature.
- Grease insides of jar well.
- Beat together butter and half of sugar until fluffy.
- Add eggs and remaining sugar, vanilla and applesauce.
- Sift dry ingredients together and add to the applesauce mixture a little at a time: beat well after each addition.
- Pour one cup of batter into each jar and carefully remove any batter from the rims.
- Place jars in a preheated 325° oven and bake for 40 minutes.
- While cakes are baking, bring a saucepan of water to a boil and carefully add jar lids.
- Remove pan from heat and keep lids hot until ready to use.
- When the cakes have finished baking, remove jars from oven.
- Make sure jar rims are clean.
- (If they're not, jars will not seal correctly) Place lids on jars, and screw rings on tightly.
- Jars will seal as they cool.
- Cakes will slide right out when ready to serve.
- Unsealed jars should be stored in the refrigerator and eaten within 2 weeks.
- Sealed jars may be stored with other canned food or placed in a freezer.
- DO NOT PLACE HOT JARS IN FREEZER!
- The cake is safe to eat as long as the jar remains vacuum-sealed and free from mold.
- To enjoy the best flavor, try to eat all canned cakes within 6 months.
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Reviews
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I am not sure why the previous reviewer had problems with this recipe, but ours turned out wonderful! They didn't last long around here, but I just found one that had been pushed to the back of the pantry and though it was a year old...it was still safely sealed and tasted great! I thought that I had better write a review (a year late!). This is a great recipe!! Thanks TROUBLE4U2 for sharing it!
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TROUBLE4U2
Elkins, West Virginia
I live in West Virginia and I do computer repair and web design. I love to cook and try new recipes often. I make a lot of my christmas and birthday gifts. My family loves my homemade with love gifts. I own a lot of cookbooks but my favorite is my 22 year old betty crocker book.