Flower Pot Cupcakes for Mother's Day

I found these adorable plastic pots online and have been wanting to use them for something for a wee while. Mother's day is coming up on the 10 May, less than two weeks!
Because these pots are not oven safe I couldn't follow any of the online tutorials for flower pot cupcakes so I decided to do it my own way.



The first time I tried it I used 2 mini cupcakes on top of each other, this did not work because the top half of the pot is too wide so I couldn't get a level surface

Large cupcakes are too big so they won't fit at all
The only option was to make a custom cupcake that would fit, so I used a method similar to making cake pops.

You will need:

One batch of Vanilla Cake mix

2 TBSP Cocoa Powder

200g Chocolate

1TBSP Vegetable Shortening

Vanilla Buttercream frosting, You can find the recipe near the end of this post

Green Food Colouring

Mini Flower pots

Mini cupcake liners

Fondant Coloured pastel pink and blue

Silver cachous

Cut small flowers in two sizes out of the fondant.
Attach a small flower onto the centre of a large flower with a tiny amount of water
Press a silver cachous onto the centre of that
Leave to dry on a baking tray lined with baking paper overnight, turn over and leave for another night
They will keep in an airtight container for months

Make a batch of my Vanilla Cake recipe (recipe to come) or your favourite cake (the flavour of this part doesn't matter too much), reserve a cupcakes worth of the batter but bake the rest in a 22cm round cake pan.
Add a tablespoon of cocoa powder to the reserved mix and bake that as well, I baked mine in a ramekin so it would fit in the oven at the same time as the
Let the cakes cool completely, cut off the golden outer crust (this part won't crumble easily) and crumble the cake into a large bowl
Mix in about a tablespoon of frosting into the mixture and knead into a ball
Divide the dough into 10 equal parts and form into shapes similar to the inside of the pots
Put the molded cakes into the fridge to set completely
Melt the chocolate and vegetable shortening over a pot of simmering water

Dunk the cakes into the chocolate on a fork and coat completely
Sit, wide end at the bottom on a sheet of baking paper to set

Line the flower pots with the cupcake liners

Place the cakes, narrow end down into the flower pots

Divide the frosting, 1/3 into one bowl and 2/3 into another
Put 1 TBSP Cocoa powder into the larger amount and some leaf green food colouring into the other an mix thoroughly

Crumble up the chocolate cake and place in a small bowl

Cover the top of one cupcake with the chocolate icing

While the frosting is still wet, dip the cupcake into the chocolate cake crumbs

Place the green icing in a piping bag fitted with a leaf tip

Pipe 2 leaves onto the top of the cupcake, it can be a bit tricky to get them to stick to the crumbly top, if this is a problem, brush off the excess crumbs and press the remaining ones further into the chocolate buttercream

Attach one of the pre prepared flowers onto the leaves and you're all done

Enjoy