Chocolate Cake In A Jar

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, plus
• 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
• 3 cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 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

Recipe

• 1 prewash 8 pint-sized wide mouth canning jars (be sure to use the kind that have no shoulders) in hot, soapy water.
• 2 rinse well, dry and let them come to room temperature.
• 3 grease insides of jar well.
• 4 beat together butter and half of sugar until fluffy.
• 5 add eggs and remaining sugar, vanilla and applesauce.
• 6 sift dry ingredients together and add to the applesauce mixture a little at a time: beat well after each addition.
• 7 pour one cup of batter into each jar and carefully remove any batter from the rims.
• 8 place jars in a preheated 325-degree oven and bake for 40 minutes.
• 9 while cakes are baking, bring a saucepan of water to a boil and carefully add jar lids.
• 10 remove pan from heat and keep lids hot until ready to use.
• 11 when the cakes have finished baking, remove jars from oven.
• 12 make sure jar rims are clean.
• 13 place lids on jars, and screw rings on tightly.
• 14 cakes will slide right out when ready to serve.
• 15 jars should be stored in the refrigerator and eaten within 2 weeks or frozen for longer storage.