You can either abandon the quest and restart it, but the first few quests are very lenient about the ingredients, so you could just go ahead and do the quests without the empty jars, and collect honey.
Later quests are more strict there. You can't ever get stuck with an unfinished quest though - the worst that can happen is that you need to abandon it (in the quests menu) and pick it up again from whoever gave it to you.