How to Make Cupcakes in a Jar

Peanut butter filled cupcakes in a jar are amazing!! They are ooey and gooey topped with chocolate gelato. A little jar full of heaven I tell you. Dessert in mason jars will be the talk of your party.

Chocolate Cupcakes in a Jar

Can you taste them already? It’s one of our favorite desserts on our site. Totally ooey and gooey inside topped with creamy chocolate smoothness on top, they’re Heaven I tell you.

Yes you could make the base homemade but we just made it as a boxed cake mix recipe. Then bake in the oven, add ice cream on top and enjoy while they’re still warm.

Copycat Wicked Good Cupcakes in a Jar

If you have only made cupcakes in a muffin pan you MUST try them this way! I love easy. Instead of adding in the list of ingredients on the side of the cake box, I just added a can of soda to the mix!! Believe me, they turn out amazing.

• Small mason jars are a fun container to use too. Besides cute, they are reusable. We love that. You don’t need to fill them with peanut butter but oh my goodness it is so wonderful if you do.
• You could substitute hot fudge instead, either way you can’t go wrong.

Before our only other smaller option for treats was this recipe for 6 cupcakes. Now these work great as an after dinner YUM too. They are the perfect size for everybody. With a scoop of gelato on top seeping inside the cupcake = yum!

Cupcakes in a Jar Recipe

Copycat Wicked Good Cupcakes Recipe

There are a variety of flavors you can use for the cake portion, but I wanted chocolate!! Seriously the best one of our box cake mix hacks we have ever ever made.

• I added chocolate chips into the batter, AND I topped them off with a rich scoop of this chocolate gelato to make it go from delicious to just out of this world!

Just follow these steps to make them:

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees
2. Mix a can of soda with a box of cake mix
   • or make homemade batter of your choice like Pumpkin Cupcakes during the Fall
3. Fill mini jars 3/4 of the way full
   1. you could fill 1/2 way full, then a bit of peanut butter if you wanted the cake layered
4. Bake and when done press spoon down in middle and put 1 tbsp peanut butter into the center
5. Serve while warm

Optional: if you want some easy extra topping mix 1 tub room temp strawberry cream cheese with 1 tub marshmallow creme.

Mason Jar Cupcakes

If you’re ready for amazing flavors check out their pistachio flavor too the next time you’re headed to the grocery store. On top of these cute cupcakes in a jar, or straight out of the carton it’s a yummy treat packed with flavor.

• I wrote this post WAY before Wicked Good Cupcakes in a Jar was created. Now I’m thinking I should’ve trademarked the idea. lol. BUT you can make them yourselves at home this way.

Ingredients needed:

1. Mini mason jars
2. Chocolate cake mix
3. Chocolate chips
4. Peanut butter – we used creamy
5. 1 can of soda – we used Coca Cola
6. HemisFares gelato – we used chocolate

Looking for other easy desserts? Try making a few air fryer cupcakes sometime. The kids got a kick out of our other soda cake dessert too. So easy to do with just 2 ingredients and low in fat too.

Cupcakes layered with peanut butter and ice cream on top are amazing. Just don’t count the calories y’all, just enjoy. If you’re making these for people coming over, pairing them with this wine gift idea is great too!

Note – There is information online in regards to baking in glass jars. In it it states that it is not always safe and may cause the jars to crack. I have never experienced this but you should do this at your own risk and always check the outside of each one before eating to ensure no glass is inside the food.