CHOCOLATE CAKE IN A JAR

Steps:

• Prewash 8 pint-sized wide mouth canning jars (be sure to use the kind that. have no shoulders) in hot, soapy water.
• Rinse well, dry and let them come to room temperat ure.
• Grease insides of jar well.
• Beat together butter and half of sugar until fluffy.
• Add eggs and remaining sugar, vanilla and applesauce.
• Sift dry ingredients together and add to the applesauce mixture a little at a time: beat well after each addition.
• Pour one cup of batter into each jar and carefully remove any batter from.
• the rims.
• Place jars in a preheated 325-degree oven and bake for 40 minutes.
• While cakes are baking, bring a saucepan of water to a boil and carefully.
• add jar lids.
• Remove pan from heat and keep lids hot until ready to use.
• When the cakes have finished baking, remove jars from oven.
• Make sure jar.
• rims are clean.
• (If they're not, jars will not seal correctly) Place lids on jars, and screw rings on tightly.
• Jars will seal as they cool.
• Cakes will.
• slide right out when ready to serve.