Dessert in a Jar – 5 Easy Recipes for a Sweet Treat

Desserts in jars are delicious, simple, and super-fast to prepare, and the best example of this is our suggested recipe for a quick strawberry dessert. Perfect for hot summer days!

Ingredients:

• 100g rolled oats
• 6 tablespoons of honey
• 50g mascarpone
• 100g natural yoghurt
• 100g strawberries
• seeds scraped from half a vanilla pod

Preparation:

• Pour the rolled oats into a dry frying pan. Stir continuously, heating until a pleasant, slightly nutty aroma fills the air. Pour 3 tablespoons of honey over the oats. Heat and stir for about 3 minutes until the honey begins to caramelise. Remove the oats from the pan. Transfer them to a plate lined with baking paper.
• Wash, dry, hull, and slice the strawberries. This is where preserving accessories come in handy, specifically hulling tongs, which will significantly speed up your dessert prep.
• Blend the mascarpone with the natural yoghurt. Add the remaining 3 tablespoons of honey and the scraped vanilla seeds, then mix thoroughly.
• Layer the dessert ingredients into your preserving jars: oats, strawberries, mascarpone and yoghurt, then repeat: oats, strawberries, mascarpone and yoghurt, and finally top with strawberries.
• This dessert in a jar will look even better if you stick a decorative label on the jars, on which you can write, for example, the name of your prepared treat.

Preserving jars and bottles, apart from their obvious use, can also be used to prepare other delicious treats. In particular, various jars and small jars are excellent as an effective and original vessel in which you can serve a delicious and quick dessert. One of our suggestions is chia pudding based on natural yoghurt with the addition of a delicious mousse made from fresh blueberries, raspberries, and banana.

Ingredients:

• 4 tablespoons of chia seeds
• 125g natural yoghurt
• 1 tablespoon of liquid honey
• 0.5 cup blueberries
• 0.5 cup raspberries
• 1 banana

Preparation:

• The day before preparing the dessert, pour the natural yoghurt over the chia seeds, mix, and place in the fridge.
• The next day, add honey to the swollen seeds and mix.
• Divide the banana into two equal parts.
• Blend half the banana with the blueberries into a mousse, and the other half with the raspberries.
• Layer the dessert ingredients into the jar in the following order: chia pudding, half the blueberry mousse, half the raspberry mousse, the remaining blueberry mousse, and the remaining raspberry mousse.
• Enjoy your healthy dessert in a jar with a long ice cream spoon.

The delicate taste of mascarpone cheese, slightly tart cherries, and sweet caramelised bananas is one of our favourite combinations. This quick dessert in a jar is a true feast for the senses!

Ingredients for the dessert:

• 1 teaspoon of butter
• 1 teaspoon of brown sugar
• 0.5 banana
• 100ml double cream (30% fat)
• 100g mascarpone
• 0.5 teaspoon of vanilla sugar
• 1 teaspoon of icing sugar

Ingredients for the cherry sauce:

• 200g cherries
• 1.5 tablespoons of sugar
• 0.5 teaspoon of potato flour

Preparation:

• On a well-heated frying pan, sprinkle brown sugar, add butter and sliced banana. Fry for about 3 minutes.
• Whip the double cream with the mascarpone until a stiff cream forms. Towards the end of whipping, add vanilla sugar and sieved icing sugar.
• Prepare the cherry sauce. First, pit the cherries. You'll do this much faster and easier if you get a cherry pitter. Put the pitted cherries into a saucepan, add sugar, and heat over a low flame. When the fruit releases its juice, pour off a few tablespoons of the liquid and combine it with the potato flour. Pour this mixed solution back into the saucepan, stir, and bring to a boil.
• Serve the dessert in a jar mug, layering the ingredients in the following order: caramelised banana slices, cheese and cream mixture, and cherry sauce. It's worth adding that pouring the cherry sauce will be much easier if you equip yourself with a jar funnel, allowing you to fill such containers freely, without worrying about staining the sides or rims of the jar.

Are you looking for recipes for delicious no-bake desserts? We have a great suggestion for you! This is a vegan dessert consisting of three layers: millet-nut, nut-date, and chocolate, which you can enjoy without any guilt, as it has been prepared only with healthy and natural ingredients.

Ingredients for the millet-nut layer:

• 50g millet flakes
• 1 tablespoon of stevia
• 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
• ¼ cup of water

Ingredients for the date and nut mousse:

• 75g dates
• 1 tablespoon of peanut butter
• ¼ cup of water

Ingredients for the chocolate topping:

• 0.5 teaspoon of coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon of cocoa
• 0.5 teaspoon of stevia
• 1 tablespoon of your favourite plant-based milk
• Additionally: a handful of peanuts

Preparation:

• Pour hot water over the millet flakes and let them soak for about 10-15 minutes to swell.
• Transfer the millet flakes, stevia, and peanut butter to a blender jug. Blend until a smooth, uniform cream is formed.
• Pour warm water over the dates and let them sit for 45 minutes. Remove the dates from the water and transfer them to a blender jug. Add peanut butter and ¼ cup of the water remaining from soaking the dates. Blend into a smooth mousse.
• Melt the coconut oil in a bain-marie. Add cocoa, stevia, and a tablespoon of water. Mix thoroughly and set aside to cool.
• Chop the peanuts into smaller pieces.
• Layer the individual dessert layers in a Weck jar or Kilner jar. First, half of the millet layer, then peanuts, followed by the date and nut mousse, the remaining part of the millet layer, and finally the chocolate topping and peanuts.

On hot summer days, we most often reach for ice cream and all kinds of cold desserts. That's why we present a recipe for no-bake cheesecakes with summer fruits, i.e., strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Colourful and delicious!

Ingredients for the cheese mass:

• 350g double-ground quark cheese
• 0.5 cup double cream (30% fat)
• 4 tablespoons of icing sugar
• seeds scraped from 1 vanilla pod

Ingredients for the strawberry sauce:

• 150g strawberries
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon of potato flour

Additionally:

• 100g blueberries
• 100g raspberries
• About 80g crushed oat biscuits

Preparation:

• Blend the quark cheese with the double cream, sugar, and vanilla.
• Prepare the strawberry sauce. Mash the strawberries with a fork, add them to a saucepan. Also add sugar, lemon juice, and potato flour. Bring to a boil and leave to cool.
• Pour crushed biscuits into the bottom of the jars, layer with blueberries, then cheesecake, raspberries, and again the cheesecake mixture. Top the dessert with strawberry sauce. Decorate the desserts with fresh mint leaves.

Preserving jars and accessories are an indispensable part of every kitchen, and as it turns out, they are useful not only for preparing seasonal preserves. Decorative jars can be used to prepare dessert, but also a nutritious and healthy salad, which in this form you can easily take with you to work or for a picnic.

Desserts in a jar are a fashionable and original way to serve sweet treats, whose taste and appearance will surprise everyone.