Pie in a Jar Thank You Gifts

My kiddos are on a year round school schedule.  That means that I was searching for an end of the year gift for their teachers about a month ago.  I prefer to make something, if I can, to let our teachers know how important they are to our family.  It seems everyone has made something in a jar lately so I decided to give it a try!  I searched through my kitchen and craft dresser and came up with the following materials to use..



The crazy thing is that I bought all of this for different reasons and had no idea that there was coordinating craft paper and ribbon lurking in my drawers...  But lucky for me as I had everything I needed on hand and didn't need to spend a thing on making our gifts cute!  These are not the jars I would have chosen, but I had them on hand, so they are what I used.

I used Pioneer Woman's Key Lime Pie recipe, again.  It is my all time favorite!  I divided the graham cracker crust between the jars.  I placed the jars on a cookie sheet and baked the crusts while I whipped up the filling.

I divided the filling between the jars and placed them back into the oven to bake.

While they baked and cooled, I whipped up some fresh sweetened whipped cream.  I piped the whipped cream onto the cooled pie.

And I topped each one with a blueberry.  It took all of my willpower not to dig into these myself!

I had to get our decorated lids on these quickly!

Then we added some ribbon and spoons to make sure they could be enjoyed as soon as their teachers wanted them.  I sent these to school with the kiddos in small gift bags with reminders that they should be refrigerated and notes of appreciation.

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