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You are crazy! these are awesome! I want to have a 70s psychedelic party and serve these!

I love this idea. I’m going to try it in baby food jars for my sons 1st bd coming up. A mini cake for everyone!

What a fun idea!! Love it!!
Thank you so much for sharing this!

this is the perfect thing to send to my brother for his birthday this week, he’ll love it!

Love it will definetly try this

WONDERFUL idea !! Will definitely try this sooon!

Recently posted a great vanilly cupcake recipe which guarantees nice domes :-)

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Stop by :-)

Did anyone care to think that the jars would break from the heat in the oven?

At ELENA:
Exactly, thats what I was thinking. Because today I kept a glass of joghurt instead of throwing it away and I wanted to try the cake in a jar as well.
I dont know whether I can use normal, ordinary glasses/jars from the supermarket that had joghurt or other stuff in them…
Does anybody know??

Just baked sugar cookies and coka cola cupcakes…they are soooo delicious!!
Will post the recipes on http://www.wechooseorganic.com in a couple days.

Greetings everyone
Ninah

@ Elena
the jars should be able to withstand the heat in the oven as they shouldve been annealed in a lehr previous to them going on sale, also the placing them in a tin of water helps

This is probably the most adorable thing I’ve ever seen. My friend and I have started this tradition where we send treats back and forth in the mail (she’s in Pensacola and I’m in Orlando) just as a Thinking of You! type thing. In the last box I got she had put mini cupcakes inside mini mason jars and I’ve been stumped with what to send back because I’m worried about the Florida heat. But this is perfect (sans icing)! I’m super excited to hear about her reaction when she opens the box and finds these beauties. Thanks for the great idea! <3

Oh my word these look amazing! What an cool idea

These are awesome! I already have so many ideas for holidays….green & red alternating color cake for xmas…..black & orange for halloween..etc.

@ J…. it’s NEON food coloring which is more vibrant than just regular ol’ food coloring. :)

http://www.firebox.com/product/1548/Sun-Jar – sunshine in a jar!!

SUPER cute idea. My 11 year old daughter and I used this as our “Girl’s Night In” recipe and had SO much fun! We just made these tonight and ran into a few problems. The cakes were “runny” in the middle…not completely cooked through and once they cooled they shrunk terribly as someone else had mentioned.

For filling the jars, we found that using an ice cream scoop cut down on getting the sides “messy” and spinning the jars a few times helped to level the layers out nicely.

@Bee and @Elena I would stick with canning jars for anything baked, as the glass is tempered to withstand higher temperatures than normal. Food storage jars off the grocery store shelf may shatter in your oven. That said, I’ve done pies in the 4 oz wide mouth jars, and they were adorable- a bigger hit with the adults than with the kids. I think it’s the portion control factor that made the small jars so attractive.

I recently discovered mason jars and am obsessed! I can’t wait to try this out it looks yummy, I’m now always looking up new ways to use them lol
http://www.fourgreensteps.com/community/blogs/fourgreensteps/green-tip-collect-mason-jars

I just made these and am not sure how to post my pics. I used regular jars off the grocery store shelf. If following the instructions of putting water in the baking dish you should be fine with any type of glass jar. Mine came out 70′s looking dark on the outside but as soon as you take a piece off the top the inside is really cool. I made them because I’m headed to the beach for 5 days and while there have a niece celebrating her 9th so this is absolutely perfect. Put a lid on and they travel. I know I didn’t layer the mix correctly as it didn’t look close to the picture but it is ok. The inside is bright and swirly with colors. I’ll try to post pics and thanks so much to whoever was the original poster.

Oh my – I just HAVE to make these for my kids birthday parties this year. How fun!! http://www.weknowstuff.us.com/

It´s pathetic

The colours of my cake definitely did not turn out like the picture. They came out a little brown, but that’s to be expected.

I made these last night but they didn’t turn out as pretty, they browned all over the sides. Could it have been because i used vanilla cake mix instead of white? I’ll be trying again tonight because it’s such a wonderful idea.

Just tried my first batch…..the colors ran horribly when I tried to “layer” them. The cake mix was way too runny. I added corn starch and flour to each color, and the consistency was MUCH better for layering. I would def recommend doing this!

Who on earth would like to eat such thing. Looks radioactive!

I want to send one in the mail to my friend across the country, but I’m worried that it might mold :/ how long do they last and still taste good? It would need to survive over 6 days in the post.

I cannot get over these. They are sooooo beautiful. I just wanna stare at them.

I also would like to know how long these would stay fresh if it was sent in the mail? Will it be ok 6 days later in the mail as Leah above had questioned?

Should it be first put in the refrigerator before mailing or just get it to room temp after baking and then put the cover on and then ship out?

Please help. I love this idea and would love to create and send this out for all the dad’s I know for father’s day.

I tried this tonight for my friend’s birthday. My local grocer doesn’t carry neon food dye, so I anticipated my colors to be a bit darker than pictured here. I used a larger jar than suggested, so I cooked it a few minutes longer. The outsides did indeed brown a little, so the colors appear even darker. But when I scooped the top off to make room for the icing, the inside was surprisingly bright! All in all I am very satisfied with this idea. My gratitude to Brooke Mclay for sharing this grand idea!

These are quite cool and fun to make, did them for a friends birthday. Thanks for the idea. However, they turn out much much darker then expected, and not nearly as neatly layered as the ones in the picture.

Made banana bread in a jar. Came out great, a tad dry from fridge storage, best to eat same day. luv ya.

Brooke you are the coolest mom ever. I love all your colorful ideas!

Laura Flowers

I am thinking about making these for my daughter’s 14th bday party. Can someone please tell me about how many one batch of cake makes??

Mine came out browned too – and HUGE – and the colors mixed together. I’m going to try again, adding the flour and corn starch to make it thicker, then I’m going to cook in the microwave to avoid browning. Or I’ll cook at a slightly lower temp; my oven runs hot.

I tried this today with an 8 oz jar. I only made one jar’s worth since I had a cake recipe that made 2 servings of cake (which was the perfect amount for one 8 oz jar). While the colors may not have been as brilliant as the pictures above, they were definitely very vivid. My main problem was with the layering of the colors. I had blue on the bottom, then pink, then purple, then green. When it cooked, the blue and green dominated but once you started eating it, there were swirls of pink and purple on the inside. I think the 8oz jars work perfect for this. I filled them a little less than half way, and the cake rose to about a 1/4 inch from the top. I’ll be making 6 of these on Thursday for a friends birthday, so we’ll see if I can figure the layering thing out better.

Ok so I made these today and for some reason my green on the bottom shows more than the other colors… Idk why but gonna try again next week but gonna layer them different….. I think I am gonna put the batter in to bags and squeeze in several different layers.. Green purple blue pink repeat… Will let ya know…..

I made this today with short and fat 16 oz jars; one box of white cake mix made three jars. I baked each jar separately to make sure they were evenly baked.
The first time, the colors were very dark and the bottom of the cake mix did not bake all the way.
The second time, the colors were a little better because I added more dye but the cake then boiled over the top making a mess.
The third time I used a lot more neon dye and the pink was gorgeous when it came out.
I don’t know if it would work for every color, but using more dye made the colors more vivid. However, they still were a little brown and I did not like how they looked.
I don’t know what I was doing wrong but my colors definitely did not turn out like the picture. I think from now on I will be making rainbow cupcakes instead. So this was not a total waste! Good idea though, looks so cute if it is done right.

i can’t get enough of this!! i just had to share it with my readers too!
http://dollarstoremom.com/2011/05/make-a-rainbow-cupcake-in-a-jar/

Oops I meant since they were smaller I baked for 16 mins to start, put them back in for 5, then 3 more, for a total of 24 mins. Seemed to do the trick! Thanks soo much for sharing!

What a mess!!! I followed directions exactly…the bottom colour, purple, rose 2/3 of the way up the jar…the blue and green barely visible, and the top 2 colours barely showed. they appeared more tie dyed than rainbow. The second batch did not bake all the way thru but bubbled over…..and also, as many others stated…the cake shrank away from the jar…a lot. As slices, once removed from the jar…the cake was very pretty bit that defeats the entire purpose of cake in a jar! Does anyone have any solutions???

I made 12 little 8 oz RAINBOW CAKES IN A JAR and they were PERFECT, AWESOME, and DELICIOUS ! :D I had NO problems with the jars turning brown AT ALL ! I followed CHELSEA J.’s advice a few post above here and adjusted the baking time as she did. I *think* I added 3 mins once more and TA DA !!! :) As for the ‘turning brown’ problem, I sprayed my little jars LIGHTLY with BAKER’S JOY [has flour in it] and again…. mine came out perfect !

I wish we could post pictures here, but if you’ll go to DUNCAN HINES on FB… I posted my picture on their wall. GOOD LUCK guys & gals… I WILL be making these again and using different colors.

This looks awesome! We saw this on Pinterest and are going to have to try it soon! Love the look of the mason jars…

Lindsey
http://inspiredbypinterest.blogspot.com/

this wont break? I keep breaking glass because i put it through too much heat :<

Making these for 4th of July in red white and blue. :-)

Super awesome !! Thank you for sharing !! I have a question?? Can I put the frosting and then send it out to my mom in Arizona I live in Texas ?? I just don’t want the cake nor the frosting to go bad ???

Put the lid on it and send it to me please!

I have made a similar recipe for cake in a jar and if you handle it all properly, you can turn put a seal lid and a ring on them, turn them over on a towel and they will self can themselves from the heat of the jar. my kids were eating them for a few months. they did do the shrinkage thing and there was some condensation in the jars but my girls are not fussy and still loved them

I was wondering if a marshmallow Fluff jar is too small for this recipe?

this looks awsome!! i am soo going to try this lol :)

this is super awesome!

thanks for sharing

-grace

http://herumbrella.com

Use a skewer to poke down in the middle of the cake to test if it’s done. I can think of all kinds of fun things to do with this idea. Thanks!

Made these earlier this week w/my hubby & we layered, however, the layers didn’t work even close to what the pic displays. Our bottom color was prominent & others kinda just went in the middle. Once baked, the outside still had the same prominent color, but the middle was neat. It was sort of like tye-dye. We used only 3 jars for the cake mix bc it was about as full as the pic on here, but grew out of the top of the jar! This time, we are trying 1 color for each of the 4 jars this time. Going to see if that makes a difference. Still fun concept!

I am impressed with the beautiful results, congratulations. I put forward on my French blog with a link to this article (http://www.untourencuisine.com/recettes_De_belles_idees_venues_d_ailleurs/91_3084).

I made these today!!! So cute!!! But after i let them cool a bit, i frosted and put a lid on the jar and when I went to serve them later they had shrunk inside the jar!! Like they got skinny in there…has that happened to anyone else? Any suggestions??

I saw this image on pinterest and tracked it down to here! I loved it so much that I featured it on my blog below! Thanks for the creativity!!

http://pupsandpatties.blogspot.com/2011/08/cake-in-jar.html

I made these today and they looked horrible!! I put the layers bottom to top…purple, pink, blue, yellow, green…and they turned out like a big brown blob. What did I do wrong?

omg i love it!!!! i will be trying this very soon , thank you so much

Has anyone tried this with the natural food colorings? My daughter can’t have artificial dyes but can have the natural food based dyes. I know they won’t be vibrant like these but would they work?

Adorable idea :)

Do you know where I can purchase Neon Food Coloring? I am so excited to make this cake!!!

I made these for my sister’s 16th birthday this weekend. I was frustrated because spooning on 3 table spoons of each color into the jars equalled only half of a jar of cake once cooked. The cake peaked like a little mountain, and I was very disappointed with out it turned out. The last one I made was with left over batter, which was about 1/2 cup of each color, and that one turned out perfect.

ALSO, I “throughly” sprayed the first jar with cooking spray, only to have the purple color seep up the sides and make a gross looking color. So, for the other jars, I sprayed a light coat of spray, and then actually wiped out the spray, leaving only a small film of non-stick spray on the jar itself. This worked much better, but still not perfect like the on pictured above.

Try cooking the bottom two layers before adding the top.. otherwise they don’t cook properly. I also made my own buttercake, I hate the packet ones… perfect tasting and very simple!
90g butter, softened
1/2 cup caster sugar
1 cup plain flour
1 tsp vanilla essence (optional)
2 tsp milk
2 eggs
Mix with electric beater until just combined, then mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon. Add food colourings and follow rest of recipe.
Soooooo tasty.

will this work w/ baby food jars? happen to have some that have no lids & can’t think of what to do w/ them.

Hello I was wondering if this would be ok in smaller jars? like 6 oz or so. If I planned to do a jar/ kid at my daughters birthday party. How long do you think I should cook them? ~ Jolee

awesome idea! i’m definitely going to try this for my friends birthday :)

As I was reading this recipe, I was thinking that perhaps it might be a sufficient idea to find some sort of round hollow device to put in the middle of the jar and add the batter around it, so that it will cook all the way through, as well as provide a nice hollow crevice to apply icing throughout the cake, rather than just at the top. I haven’t tried this recipe, nor the alteration i have suggested. ….it was just a thought.

Hello! I was wondering if you think it is a good idea to send this in the mail to my husband who is deployed. Do you think it would still be good once it got to him? Thanks!

These look so absolutely amazing I just couldn’t wait to try them. In fact, my plan was to make them and give them as gifts for Christmas. Unfortunately they were an epic fail for me. I’ve tried a variety of cooking combinations and nothing’s worked. Pam and Flour on the sides of the jars to help the batter climb; flour coating looks burnt, cake barely rose. Pam only in the jars; cake still looks overly brown and didn’t rise that much. Oven higher temp, oven lower temp. Longer cook time, shorter cook time. Water bath. No water bath. Everytime the results are the same, brown edges, barely rose. The cake looks delicious when you look down into the jar, but through the glass you can barely tell there’s different colors behind the brown edges. Am currently cutting the cake out of the jars to turn into rainbow cake pudding. Bummer. Absolutely love the recipe. Just can’t figure out what I did wrong. Hope everyone else has better luck because these look amazing.

After reading all the comments I didn’t notice a response to “why does the cake shrink?” Immediately upon removing the jars from the oven, the cake began to shrink away from the jar. Also, the cake is a little brown, but no biggy; but how are your cakes NOT browned?

I made this cake today for my friends birthday. How do you get such vivid color on the outside? The inside has great color but the outside is a little brown. How do you prevent that?

Great idea!
Sending one to my 41 year old son tomorrow.

Baby food jars work well for a smaller version but this was great! Thanks!!!

That is a lovely idea

LOVE! Thanks! Trackback: http://blog.joyhey.com/2012/01/17/inspiration-rainbow-party/

I’m wondering if you should remind people that the water in the pan should be up to oven temperature before you put the jars in to bake? I usually put boiling water in the bain marie. Using cold water would keep the bottoms of the cake jars from baking properly.

So cute!!

Just a quick question..are you even allowed to put glass jars in the oven at that temperature? Won’t the crack or explode?

This is such an awesome idea for party favors! So much easier to store than regular cupcakes because you don’t have to worry about bumping them and ruining the icing! I made these little cakes in solid purple for my mom’s 50th birthday using the stage 2 size jars and they turned out great. I painted the lids with flat black spray paint and glued a purple plastic gem to the top, wrapped a square of black tulle and a 1″ wide purple and black zebra print ribbon around the jar and they were the hit of the party. They did brown a little so I think next time I will stick to chocolate cake so that it’s not so noticible. I would also recommend only filling 1/3 of the jar to avoid them overflowing durring baking.
To those of you who are worried about babyfood jars breaking… these jars are made to withstand heat because they have to be sanitized in the canning process. I’ve baked in the same stage 2 jars twice so far and haven’t had a problem.