I am so, so excited for my sweet friend Shaina. Her brand new, super adorable cookbook just came out yesterday! It’s Desserts in Jars: 50 Sweet Treats that Shine. Fifty recipes, all completely dedicated to desserts, and all in cute little jars. I’m in love.
Making Pull-Apart Cinnamon Breads, page 36.
Back in October, when Shaina was in the midst of baking multiple desserts a day to photograph for her book, I was lucky enough to convince her to come stay with me for a weekend so I could “help.” :) And by that, you know I totally mean “taste test all those fabulous desserts!!” :) We had such a fun, much-too-short weekend goofing off in the kitchen, staying up way too late gabbing, and indulging in some of the most delicious desserts I’ve ever tasted. All in all, we ended up baking up a grand total of 11 desserts all in two short days! :)
After baking, we’d head to the scrapbook room and pick out props and backgrounds for the photo shoot.
Then style it and take it outside for a photo! :)
This beauty is Shaina’s Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Pots de Creme (page 77). So incredibly good!
Another one we did were these Tres Leches Cakes. So cute! I keep looking at the photo in the book (page 20) and thinking, That’s my backyard! That’s my spoon! I’ve made scrapbook pages with that paper! Lol :)
Morning lighting setup in my kitchen :)
And this. This was my favorite. This was life changing.
Peanut Butter and Jelly Parfaits, page 88. Make this first. So dangerously delicious!!
You know I saved the best for last! :) How cute are these Macarons in a Jar?? Page 63.
I am absolutely in love with french macarons and this was my first time making them. It was such a breeze with Shaina’s foolproof recipe! They are so cute and fun to make. So many fun flavor combinations to choose from! I seriously want to travel around and have macaron making parties now. Who’s in?? :)
A secret note ;)
Desserts in Jars Giveaway!
I’m so thrilled to be able to offer a giveaway for five (5) signed copies of Shaina’s wonderful new book.
To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. What’s your favorite dessert?! :)
Contest ends Saturday, June 30 at 8 pm CST. One entry per person, please. Winners will be chosen by Random.org and notified by email.
Time’s Up!
The winners of a signed copy of Shaina’s new book, Desserts in Jars: 50 Sweet Treats that Shine are:
#174 Cindy
#465 Nolwenn
#568 Marie
#608 Autumn
#670 Jamie
Congrats girls!! You are going to love it!! :)
Have a great weekend, friends!! xoxo
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Scrumptious & sooo adorable! :)
Anything with peanut butter and chocolate!!!!
Chocolate Ganache! In practically anything.
Molten chocolate lava cakes! Or…cookies :P
mmmm pavlova for sure! These look delicious!
Chocolate cake is my all time favorite. But I have so many favorite desserts, it’s so hard to pick just one.
I would have to say the macaroons! I love to colors and have tried making them before and still need more practice! Plus thier gluten free (!) and my roommate can eat them too since she is allergic to wheat! What a great giveaway!
Your oreo brownie cookies are pretty amazing…. Can’t make them too often. I dont think I could resist them!
cool book! can’t go wrong with cookies!
I love this idea! Everything is better in a jar! As for my favorite dessert, I always go for cheese cake! Love it!
I love anything with DARK chocolate!
My favorite dessert is pineapple upside down cake!
Key Lime cheesecake! mmmmm
Death by Chocolate Trifle. Yummy!
My favorite dessert is white chocolate bread pudding with fresh raspberries. If Heaven has a taste, this is IT! Sooooo good and easy too! Thanks for the chance to win! Sounds like a great and fun book!
Just stumble across your blog. Love it! Seriously. And this cook book looks amazing. Anyways on to my favorite dessert. Vanilla bean ice cream with fresh cut strawberries and a little of Mrs. Richardson’s hot fudge. Delicious
My favorite dessert? As Drew Barrymore said in the movie Ever After, “I could no more choose a favorite star in the heavens than I could choose a favorite dessert”. Well, something like that. Dessert is my favorite meal of the day so I have it with breakfast, lunch and dinner… (Smile)
A homemade chocolate chip cookie just out of the oven is hard to beat!
My favorite dessert is probably carrot cake. Because… it’s healthy? With vegetables, or something?
Yeah, sticking with that. :)
Best,
Madison
My favorite dessert is anything someone else has made! I would however, love to get this book so I can try to make some at home…they are beautiful!
My favorite dessert is cupcakes!! Especially little mini ones that a local place sells because they are just the right ratio or cake to frosting and the perfect size. I hope I win!!
I love a good chocolate cake!
A recent favorite is Lemon Lush! My old favorite is German Chocolate Cake, homemade of course!
I love cheesecake!
Ice cream sundae’s and Strawberry short cakes!
Made-from-scratch Red Velvet Cake….with chopped pecans in the cream cheese icing :)
I love cookies and cream ice cream cake. Yum!
It’s so hard to choose but I think chocolate cake, at least today anyway.
Sweet Potato Pie with a dollop of fresh whipped cream….mmmmmm!
As of now, the Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie N’ Oreo Fudge Brownie Bar recipe from this website! So good! :)
Nothing beats a rich slice of chocolate cake!
to see those favorite desserts in a jar makes me drool =)~ , and oh how i love those colorful macaroons <3 then i could share with my friends, hmm mmm mmM~
Definitely my mother’s cinammon and coconut scrolls! They’re to die for !
Hard to choose as I love anything sweet, but I can never leave cookies alone.
My favorite dessert is chocolate cake!!…well, pretty much anything chocolate :)
These recipes look great! They would be perfect for my sister-in-law’s shower and wedding. She’s decorating with Mason jars!
definitely would try the macaroons
My Nanny’s (grandmother, who passed away 2 years ago) homemade lemon meringue pie. No one could make meringue like her ! (Still dont know what her secret for the meringue not collapsing was !)
What a fun book. I would love to own one!
I love anything with chocolate
I love cake!!!
My favorite desserts has to be a good chocolate and coffee cake..YUM!!
Anything with chocolate yumm.
lemon bars!!
I love any dessert with chocolate….but then, I just love dessert!
Thanks for the chance to win. I’m in for the macaroon party.
My favorite dessert right now is my grandma’s awesome apple pie!!
Wow!!! Too many to choose from. My favorite dessert changes daily from where I am to what I am doing. I have to say I was drooling over your pictures…. And now am craving tres leches from Cafe Rio. Best tres leches in the world!!!
Beautiful photos. I’d love to give this book to my daughter. She’s been cooking for us all week.
ONE favorite dessert….is that even POSSIBLE?!??! I think I have like 200! ha! ha! If I HAD to pick just one, it would most definitely be apple crisp, fresh from the oven, over ice cold straight-from-the-freezer french vanilla ice cream…don’t forget the caramel drizzle….oooh lala!!!! lol…ok, great…now, I think I HAVE to bake tomorrow! =D
My all-time favorite is still mint chocolate chip ice cream! You can never go wrong with chocolate! :)
The peanut butter parfaits sound so yummy! Can’t wait to buy this book! :)
Something extra chocolatee
Since we’re in the middle of a heat wave, I’m craving fresh mascarpone with yummy seasonal fruits. But, macaron will always be my first love.
I am SO excited to find you through PW.
I love your style.
My favorite dessert… right now it’s Skinny Cow. I’m trying to loose 10 lbs before my brother-in-laws wedding in three weeks. On a normal day it’s chocolate chip cookies. Huge weekness….
Safe travels!
Blessings from Oregon.
I want a tour of your KITCHEN! Love the pics. Thanks for sharing with us. I can’t wait to make some of these yummy desserts!
Just stumbled across your blog…love it!!! I’d have to say coconut cream pie, but lately anything with blackberries! I’m dying to try those macarons, can’t believe I haven’t had one yet.
Oh yes, I almost forgot, another favorite is croissant bread pudding (Barefoot Contessa’s recipe)!!
Cherry Pie! (in a jar?)
Key lime pie with a good crust :)
I admit I’m a sucker for chocolate lava cake (:
These are adorable! My favorite dessert (right now) is a chocolate pot de creme!
So many to choose from…..but I’d have to vote for a really good chocolate cake (real cake, not flourless nonsense) with chocolate icing.
Oreo Pizookie from BJ’s
My favorite dessert would probably be something with coconut; although, I love ice cream, too! My husband said he likes to think that I like all desserts equally, which certainly isn’t true, because I hate raspberries. They taste like dirt to me.
Warm chocolate cake and ice cream!
Chocolate chip cookies are my fave!
I love my grandma’s chocolate pie with cool whip on top.
Hard choice – but I’d have to say the Peanut Butter Chocolate dessert from Ocean Prime:)
Rhubarb pie, I’m seriously addicted.
I recently tried macarons for the first time and they are my new favorite! My first one was pistachio flavor from a little bakery in NYC. So so good. Would love to learn to make them.
My favorite dessert is red velvet cake or anything CHOCOLATE!!
Favorite dessert? I just made a blackberry cobbler and it was by far the best fruit cobbler. What a fun time you had with your friend!
Love lemon cake and anything made with peanut butter!
My favorite dessert is anything chocolate! Just found this site—and looks like I picked the perfect day for it!
Key Lime Pie!
tiramisu!
I cannot eat sugar, so I love carb smart ice cream in diet A&W root beer. the best sugar free root beer floats. I would love to have a copy of the book, so I could try and make some sugar free versions. :)
I have to say the Tres Leches dessert – my son loves this cake.
Tiramasu is my fave!
Coconut Cream Pie! And now I need some, immediately.
it’s plain and simple, but i absolutely love rice krispie treats! :-)
Right now, cupcakes. Just about any kind, as long as it’s piled high with frosting. LOL
The book looks great, and like another poster said, I too enjoyed seeing your photo “setup”.
SO hard to choose just one, but if I’m honest, I’ll always be true to the good ol’ basic – brownies.
Homemade Rocky Road Brownies!! The Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Pots de Creme from this cookbook look amazing. :)
I missed the giveaway deadline, but I still wanted to comment. I love this post and will definitely be getting the cookbook. Everything is SO CUTE, and looks delicious. Really enjoyed seeing the “behind the scenes” photos :)
Can you tell me what reflector you used to take these gorgeous photos? I’m in the market for one and was wondering what you use/like. Thanks!
Grasshopper Pie!! My second favorite in the summer would be a peach crumble and third would be strawberry shortcake with chocolate chips….can you tell I love sweets(a little too much:)!
Oh my goodness, asking me to pick a favorite dessert is a question that simply cannot be answered. Apple pie. Any kind of pie really. Cookies. Cupcakes. Banana bread. Brownies. Give them all to me!
I love macarons!
Red velvet cake with cream cheese icing. Yummy!
I just love the idea of Desserts in Jars!!!! I want that book! Looks like it was a lot of hard work but worth it!
I love desserts! And in a jar, how cute! I would love to win this book.
The one that appealed to me the most was the Chocolate Hazelnut Pots de Creme. I hope I win! Love your blog!!:)
Salty Caramel Cupcakes!!!
My grandmother’s homemade black raspberry pie made with raspberries she would grow herself. She died at age 98 and didn’t leave a recipe because she never used one to make them so no one can make one like she did. I miss her and her pies so bad.