These Simple Cinna-Bun Butter Cakes are baked right into a jar. They’re super tasty with brown sugar and cinnamon, and they make the perfect gifts!
Easy Cinnamon Bun Butter Cakes in a Jar
What a fun weekend, there were bake sale’s going on all over the states to raise money for Share Our Strength. I had the privilege of baking for the LA Bake Sale Saturday and prepared my simple Cinna-Bun Butter Cakes in a Jar as you see here. Huge thanks to Gaby Dalkin of What’s Gaby Cooking for heading up the event. She is the hostess with the mostess! I heard LA produced over $2300 for charity. So great!
I found those adorable jars at Michaels for a buck a piece along with the fun little tags. I love them. I also found them on Amazon that you can order online! Kinda funny, I couldn’t be at the LA Bake Sale because we were in San Diego, so I went to the San Diego Bake Sale to visit my friends and buy some goodies. Those ladies had a packed house. It was so much fun seeing them.
So fun to see Lori of Recipe Girl (left), Amy of Do You Know The Muffin Pan (right) and Kathy of Panini Happy (missed a photo with her, drats!)
I thought I’d share my little Bake Sale goodies with you, they’ll work in any size jar. My cinnamon filling makes for a buttery cinnamon-y jazzed up cake mix cake you will not forget 🙂 Enjoy!
Love these labels that Party Ink custom made me for my baked goods! Perfect for bake sales, and gifts for friends. The cookies are placed in CD white paper liners. Such a fun way to wrap up cookies!
Simple Cinna-Bun Butter Cakes in a Jar
Equipment
- Oven
Ingredients
- 1 yellow butter cake mix I used Betty Crocker
- 1/2 cup canola oil or vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 3 eggs
- 1 small package vanilla instant pudding mix
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter cold
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. and spray baking jars of choice with non-stick cooking spray.
- Place cake mix, oil, sour cream, eggs, and pudding mix into the bowl of a stand or electric mixer, beating until well combined, about 1 minute.
- Place flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and salt into a medium bowl, mixing to combine. Cut cold butter into small cubes, add to flour mixture and use a pastry cutter or a fork and cut butter into mixture until well combined and crumbly. Takes a good 5 minutes.
- Depending on the size of jar you use, this step will be different for every size. For the tiny jars I used, I placed about 2 tablespoons cake mix into the bottom, topped with 2 tablespoons cinnamon mix and topped with another 1 tablespoon of cake mix. No matter what size of jar you use, only fill it 1/2 full or you'll end up slicing off the top that bakes over the top. Use your best judgement according to the size jar you are using. Layer cake mix and cinnamon topping until you reach 1/2 full of your jar.
- For my tiny jars, I baked them for 19 minutes and they were perfect. If using larger jars just keep a close eye on them after 20 minutes of baking. Carefully remove hot jars from oven, let cool then close with lids. Find some cute tags and wrap around top with a ribbon.
Nutrition
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Snapshots at La Jolla Beach with my stinkers over the weekend, have a great new week!!
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Those cakes in a jar are the cutest! Love them!!
these are adorable!! I wish five would just magically land on my doorstep right now.. 🙂
Hi! Another great recipe… looks beautiful and delicious,… as usual! I wondered if you could help me out. How do you store all of your recipes? I was wondering if you had them on computer or in a binder? How do you organize all of them?! I would love to start a good system and thought you may have a good idea, or can refer me somewhere else. Thank you!!
I just store them on my blog 🙂 If I didn’t have them all accessible through my blog I would probably store my favorites on my computer in categories. Easier than bulky binders. Good luck!
So so cute and clever.
I would like to bake these in muffin pans. Have you tested doing that? Just wondered if you had the timing, if so. If not I will test myself. I make the same cake and bake it without a cinnamon topping and when done remove the plain cake from the pan and let cool. I then melt 2 sticks of butter and mix two cups of sugar with 2 tablesppons of cinnamon. I dip the cakes in the butter, making sure to cover the entire cake and then roll in the cinnamon sugar. Wonderful. A taste of heaven. Also, Have you ever tried Penzy’s cinnamon? It is outstanding!!!! Especially the Vietnamese Fancy cinnamon. Their vanilla can’t be beat either.
I haven’t tried that yet Marianne, but I think it would work just fine 🙂 I’d start the baking for 17 to 18 minutes and check often from there.
ADORABLE and perfect size for a Fundraiser/Bake Sale! Did you bake these jars in a Bain Marie or how did they go into the oven? Thanks!
Hi Mich,
I baked them right into the oven with the lid open 🙂
can i ask how much you charge for the beautiful cake in a jar – and yours are truly beautiful.
I did not price my cakes at the bake sale, so I am not sure what they went for 🙂 Thanks for your compliment!
These are *so* cute! And I love the “cookie-in-a-cd-case” idea! Brilliant! 🙂
Mmmm these look so lovely!
I love the “in a jar” movement going on right now! Looks delish!
Me too Amy!
Jenny these are adorable, not to mention sound delicious!!
Love your little cakes in jars! What a cute, fun idea!
You have such a cute little family! 🙂
I love cakes/cupcakes/muffins baked in jars. Best way to ship goodies to friends in far away places.
Congrats on raising so much for a great cause!
These are amazing and if you don’t have a little shop you should open one!
So cute! And sound yummy!
Always great to catch up, Jenny! And it was lovely to finally meet all your gentlemen. 🙂 We’ll be sure to snap plenty of pics in ATL – see you soon!
Can’t wait for this weekend Kathy!!
I adore your packaging!! so beautiful!! I’m sure who ever went home with this cinna-bun butter cake was in heaven!
Your packaging is adorable. Some really great ideas. I’m so glad the Bake Sale was such a great success.
Such great ideas and such a worthy event. Bravo! …Susan
What a fun day and your treats look amazing!
These are too cute. I love the way you packaged your baked goods.
Thank you 🙂
Looks like you had a great time! Love the cakes in the little jars! And the tags are super cute!
Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
those little cakes are so cute!! and the packaging on all your goodies is beautiful 🙂
SO fun to see you at our bake sale!! Thanks for spending some money 🙂 What a cute idea your jars are. And I absolutely LOVE the cookies slipped into CD wrappers w/ those darling stickers. Saving that idea for next year!! Love ya, Girl… see you in a few days!
Ok I donated to the San Diego bake sale but wasnt there because on Friday we left for Aruba so had given my Nutella Brownies to Marie to have at the sale. I wonder if anyone bought any? lol
I would have loved bumping into you!
Or would have I think driven to LA just to have one of your cinny cakes in a jar. holy fabulous idea!!
I love all the pics of you and the ladies…I hope I get to meet you and them one day very soon! But for now, it’s off to the beach 🙂
I was so hoping you were giving us a template to make the cookie labels ourself. Love the ideas, have done cakes in a jar before, they are really neat.
Wish I knew how to do that Cindy!! Maybe someday I’ll figure that out 🙂
These look fabulous. Thank you so much for the ideas and the recipe. I love the CD holders for the cookies. I’d love to know where you got your jars for the cakes. They’re fabulous.
I found those little jars at Michaels! Only $1 per jar.
Oh that all looks so yummy! And that is an ingenious way to wrap a cookie! Love it!
holy yum…i LOVE things in jars! and, well, if it has butter in the recipe then sign me up 🙂
You guys did an amazing job! So nice to see bloggers come together for a great cause 🙂
Ok so I didn’t finish reading the post but I was so excited when I saw your idea for cookies in a CD cover that I just had to comment right away while my excitement was fresh! perhaps that Idea has been around for a while but since me food blogging hasn’t been it’s new to me and I think IT’S TOTALLY AWESOM!!! Such a great idea. We are having a garage sale on saturday and my son wants to sell cookies and lemonade, this is the prefect way to package them. I’m ordering CD covers as soon as I finish this comment.
Hope the garage sale went well!! Loving my CD covers for cookies!
I would have gobbled those up at the bake sale. Great idea!
These look amazing! I bet they were a huge hit at the bake sale!!
love the packaging 🙂
What a neat idea! I might have the kids in my class make these for their dads for Father’s Day! Thanks for sharing!
SO nice seeing you again, Jenny! Hope you had a wonderful day with the family.