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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I like cake with ice cream. Yum!
My favorite dessert is Mud Pie that my mom
makes!!!
That is so neat Amanda!! What a lovely cookbook and I love the
“Green bottom” reference!
My favorite dessert is Eclair :)
My favorite dessert? Anything with maple syrup!
I think my favorite desert is the chocolate chip cookie dough anything your cupcakes, blizzard, and anything.
Anything chocolate! Maybe chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwiches! Life is Good :)
The chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes.
Homemade blueberry pie! I could eat that for breakfast right now!! Yum.
I love cheesecake anything! But mostly an excellent, plain vanilla cheesecake. It can then be dressed up with anything….raspberry sauce, turtle toppings, etc. Now I am so hungry for it, I think I have to go make some! =]
The pictures are gorgeous and the goodies look amazing. Hopefully, I dill win copy of the cookbook, but if not I will be buying one. Thanks for making everything look possible, I really admire you Amanda.
Pecan Pie
I love key lime pie! This cookbook looks so awesome. Thank you for the giveaway.
Oh my, I want to try them all!!! I hope I’m lucky. It’s so hard to choose one dessert, but I love love love any kind of cheese cake. Would also love to see more of that scrap room. Looks awesome.
cherry cheesecake, or brownies or rocky road ice cream….i can’t decide.
I’ll pick a cheesecake every time!
I love brownies, or peanut butter and chocolate cookies!
Amanda, as soon as I saw the Macaroons in a Jar page I knew I needed this book!!! Those are my favorite and they looked so cute in those little jars!!!
Keep up the awesome work :)
Alex
My favorite dessert is anything chocolate! ;-)
Mmmmm, anything chocolate!
A favorite, that is hard! Probably cake or an ice cream sundae. Oh, I must put this book on my list of wants! Thanks for the opportunity to win one!
favorite dessert, lets see…. Black raspberry truffle ice cream or blueberry chocolate chip oatmeal cookies! Or both!
My favorite dessert is a Banana split! Simply refreshing on a hot summer day:))
Thanks Amanda!
Ooh, many I so need this book! Favorite dessert is hard to whittle down, but anything with chocolate and peanut butter or chocolate and sea salt totally rock my world! :) Thanks for sharing such a great book!
This time of year, I love to make blackberry cobbler!
Thanks for this opportunity, the book looks amazing.
My favorite dessert is a Banana Split! It was my grandmothers also!
So fun! Love Shaina’s new book!
Right now, I’m really loving a fruit crisp with blackberries and raspberries with a little vanilla ice cream!
Cookie dough ice cream! Yum!
My fav dessert is creme brulee. Is there one in her book? It would b awesome in a jar…….it could b layered with the hard caramel in between the custard…..yum
Thank you for the great giveaway!
Blackberry or Peach Cobbler! Especially this time of year :-)
Homemade brownies with caramel are my all time favorite!! The ones featured look to die for too. Loving that scrapbook room too!!
Hello!
I love any dessert that has peanut butter! Peanut butter in a jar with………………….anything is just yummy!
Debra
I love cupcakes! Always a new flavor to try! :)
Coconut cream pie…yum!
Chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Mmmmm good!
Oh my hard to say, cause I could always skip dinner and go straight to dessert, but my ultimate favorite has to be cheese cake! Oh yum, now I am craving it!! :)
It looks like it was a very fun and yummy weekend!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Strawberry shortcake OR a ridiculously chocolately chocolate cake. I run the gamut.
Ice cream or my grandmother’s homemade caramel
Cream Puffs, My Favorite!
I too am obsessed with macaroons, that is the be first recipe I will try!
I love banana pudding… it would be super easy to make as a jar dessert!
Cheesecake!!
I love anything chocolate, especially if it is warm and gooey…or room temp….or cold…or just chocolate! My five year old is lover of vanilla. Go figure!
P.S. These desserts in a pot look so deliciously sinful! I would have to cook them all up in a weekend, too!
Oh that is such a cute cookbook. Love it. I like any dessert without fruit … chocolate, toffee, pudding, ice cream, cake, creme caramel – you name it, but don’t mix sweets with fruit :)
Maybe a pie here and there is okay…..
fruit tarts…fresh fruits…pastry cream… shortbread crust….YUM!!
My favorite dessert? It’s a toss up between German Chocolate Cake & Carrot Cake… yum!!
I’d have to say chess bars!
I could never decide between angel food cake with strawberries and whip cream or a brownie sundae…too hard! Thanks for the chance :)
mmmm.. dessert. I love most of it. Something dark and rich like a flourless chocolate cake, or creme brulee.
I LOVE Key Lime Pie. I will never turn it down if it is on a restaurant menu. :)
Key lime pie!
The different colored macaroons are absolutely adorable! Who wouldn’t want a jar of those??
What fun to be a part of this! My favorite dessert…that is so hard! Creme brulee? :)
My favorite dessert is homemade strawberry shortcake! With fresh whipped cream…mouth wateringly good!
Pick just one favorite…well I will have to say Strawberry Shortcake with a shortcake biscuit (not pound cake or angel food cake) and vanilla ice cream with whipped cream on top. This book looks yummy thanks for the chance!!
Yum! You are one lucky gal. My favorite dessert is cheesecake–I’m sure it would taste fabulous in a jar!!!
My favorite dessert is Tiramisu. Yum!
My all time favorite dessert is strawberry shortcake! But not with sponge cake…with lightly sweetened biscuits and loads of whipped cream!! They’d be too cute in a jar. :)
I love fresh cherry pie. I made blueberry and cherry pies in jars last 4th of July….so fun! LOVE food in jars.
Cherry pie in a jar is a wonderful treat!
Shaina’s Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Pots de Creme…..and I haven’t even tasted it yet, but I know it’s gonna be my fav dessert soon! Just bought little glass jars yesterday and can’t wait to try this!
Mississippi Mud Pie. Yum!
Only one dessert?! ;) Well, let me just say that TODAY my favorite dessert would be Carrot Cake!
I’m not sure I can pick a favorite dessert, but there is nothing like a chocolatey trifle with whipped cream and heath pieces…I die. The only non-chocolate dessert I really even have on my list is Tres Leches, so that picture of the Tres Leches in a jar…oh me oh my. I die for Tres Leches.
Love the ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at the cookbook…it looks beautiful!
Anything with strawberries & whipped cream is my latest love. :)
My fav is sour dough chocolate cake with choco frosting. So so so good. BUT having individual size servings makes this a book I would definitely want to use.
What an incredibly adorable and wonderful book idea! The pictures are simply beautiful! And each dessert looks so delicious.
My favorite dessert…hands down…is creme brulee. Loved it ever since I was a kid and it is like a rule for my birthday that we go somewhere that has it on their dessert menu!
Amanda- Your craft room is my dream! So incredible! I second everyone who wants a blog tour of the space and how you set it up!
I can never say no to a cookie…peanut butter chocolate chip are my favorite!
I have this crazy obsession with jars! Everything in jars is better somehow and I love the portability of jars! This looks like a must have!
Oops! Got so carried away talking about the book, I forgot to leave my favorite dessert…Lately, it’s been my vanilla cupcakes with lemon curd filling and an extremely sweet yet tart lemon frosting. I actually serve these in a jar!
I love this kind of post, thanks for sharing. The photos and desserts look amazing!
Flourless Chocolate Cake with Raspberries
Oh, my goodness, I’m drooling! My fave is almost anything I am looking at at the moment, but her Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Pots de Creme is over the top. I’m also partial to the Macarons. I hope to goodness I win this. And Shaina is one organized girl. No wonder she accomplishes such things. You two are my current role models. Thank-you! :)
My favorite dessert has to be magnolia’s famous vanilla vanilla cupcakes ! I am more of a chocolate lover with anything and everything else, but the vanilla steals my heart everytime !
Oh my goodness these all look so amazingly good! Love that you shared behind the scene photos, always fun to see what goes on. And lucky you, 11 desserts!
Right now s’mores are big on my fav list of yummys…but really anything chocolate. Like that chocolate bar you posted a few days ago…I was so drooling for days.
Thanks for the chance to win =)
For a quick fix, I love chocolate chip cookies. But if I have to choose my favorite dessert of all time it is Creme Brulee!!!!
My Banana Split pie…yum!!
I would have to say fudge brownies with lots of homemade fudge icing!
Cheesecake! Does she have a recipe for cheesecake in a jar? :)
What a cute presentation for wonderful desserts! My favorite desserts are cupcakes and they are so much fun to make!
It’s hard to pick just one but right now I’d have to say carrot cake
Be still my beating heart!!!
I cannot believe how great those photos are and how yummy each dessert looks!! You are truly talented!!! Oh…Shaina too!!! tee hee!
What a fun weekend!!
My fingers are crossed!! Pick me!!
My favorite go-to dessert is Strawberry Shortcake – made with a slightly sweetened fluffy biscuit. Mmmm Good!
It’s a toss up between chocolate sheet cake (my granny’s recipe) and the banana split cupcakes from georgetown cupcakes!!!
So easy, anything with peanut-butter! Amanda, I always love seeing your scrapbook room. I’d love more posts on that. Are you still scrappin’?
My favorite dessert is fresh homemade peach cobbler topped with vanilla ice cream~ !!!
My favorite dessert right now is ice cream. A local chain in Upstate New York, Stewarts, has a flavor called Heavenly Hash which is my absolute favorite.
My mom’s pecan pie! It’s so good!
My favorite dessert is shortbread with a cup of coffee. The desserts in this book look amazing and may just give me a new favorite!
To me there is nothing better than a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie right out the oven…mmmmm
I would love to see Tarimsu in a jar. My all time fav dessert!!
I am currently obsessed with mason jars– all sizes:) I just had a party and served berries and cream in a jar. So refreshing and light. It has to be my new favorite; for today.
I love cheesecake, lemon bars, peanut butter fingers, cookies….the list if endless really!!
I love any kind of bread pudding!
I LOVE any thing hot and chocolatey. Molten lava chocolate cakes?! YES PLEASE! I also am a huge fan of Magic Cookie Bars!! Mmmm!
I thought ice cream was my favorite until I saw all these desserts in a jar!!!
I love wedding cake!! I go to weddings just for cake!! I LOVE CAKE!! And frozen yogurt is a close second…
Creme Brulee – hands down.
My favorite dessert is Key lime pie!!!!This book looks so amazing!!! Definitely love the idea of desserts in a jar!!!