Flower Pot Cakes
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April showers bring CAKE flowers! I originally made this cake as a delicious treat for all the amazing mothers out there on Mothers Day, but these cakes can be a delicious treat for Mom (or Dad) any day of the year! Because lets be real, our parents deserved to be spoiled more than once a year. So lets spoil them with chocolate cake, chocolate ganache, and my Italian Meringue Buttercream, shaped like flower pots and topped with fresh flowers!
Ingredients
Cake
- 7lbs of Yo's Ultimate Chocolate Cake
- 1 x Yo's Chocolate Ganache Recipe
Icing
- 1.5 batch of Italian Meringue Buttercream
Decorations
- 4.5 lbs Satin Ice White Fondant
- Ivory Icing Colour
- 4 Tablespoon Instant Coffee
- 2 Tablespoon Hot Water
- Rose Pink Icing Colour
- CakeCraft Food Colouring in Avocado
- Fresh flowers - enough to fill each pot!
- 10 x Oreos
Read It!
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- Prepare your Yos Ultimate Chocolate Cake batter, and divide among pans as outlined below:
- 6 round cake pans - 4lbs of batter divided evenly
- 5 round cake pans - 2lbs of batter divided evenly
- 4 round cake pans - 1lb of batter divided evenly
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- Bake each cake at 350 degrees, for the designated baking time listed below, or until a toothpick comes out clean and allow to cool completely in their pans.
- 6 round cake pans - 40 minutes
- 5 round cake pans - 30 minutes
- 4 round cake pans - 20 minutes
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Prepare your Italian Meringue Buttercream, and set aside.
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In a sealed jar, place your hot water and instant coffee. Shake until coffee dissolves. Slowly incorporate instant coffee into your Italian Meringue Buttercream.
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Carve your cakes into the shape of a pot and fill cakes with coffee buttercream.
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Cover your cakes with fondant, replicating the tapered look of a flower pot. Set aside.
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Crush Oreo cookies, and any cake scraps. Mix together to replicate potting soil. Then sprinkle potting soil on top of cakes.
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Place a plastic drinking straw into your cake, insert the stem of your fresh flowers inside the straw.
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If youre not comfortable working with fondant, or simply want to cut down on prep time, you can actually bake my chocolate cake recipe directly in a terra cotta flower pot!
Congratulations you did it!
