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    Home › Recipes › Flower Pot Cakes

    Flower Pot Cakes

     With Chocolate Cake & Coffee Buttercream!

    I originally made this cake as a delicious treat for all the amazing mothers out there on Mothers Day, but these cakes can be a delicious treat for Mom (or Dad) any day of the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!

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    • Ingredients
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    • 7lbs of Yo's Ultimate Chocolate Cake
    • 1 x Yo's Chocolate Ganache Recipe
    • 1.5 batch of Italian Meringue Buttercream
    • 4.5 lbs Satin Ice White Fondant
    • Wilton Ivory Icing Colour
    • 4 Tablespoon Instant Coffee
    • 2 Tablespoon Hot Water
    • Wilton Rose Pink Icing Colour
    • CakeCraft Food Colouring in Avocado
    • Fresh flowers - enough to fill each pot!
    • 10 x Oreos
    Item Name: Availability:
    3 x 6" round cake pans, prepared with parchment paper
    2 x 5" round cake pans, prepared with parchment paper
    2 x 4" round cake pans, prepared with parchment paper
    Serrated knife
    Offset palette knife
    Palette knife
    Rubber spatula
    Rolling Pin
    Fondant smoother
    Paring knife
    Drinking straws

    Prepare Cake Batter

    • 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


    Bake Cakes

    • 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


    Prepare Buttercream

    Prepare your Italian Meringue Buttercream, and set aside.


    Prepare Instant Coffee

    In a sealed jar, place your hot water and instant coffee. Shake until coffee dissolves. Slowly incorporate instant coffee into your Italian Meringue Buttercream.


    Carve and Fill Cakes

    Carve your cakes into the shape of a pot and fill cakes with coffee buttercream.


    Cover Cakes

    Cover your cakes with fondant, replicating the tapered look of a flower pot. Set aside.


    Create Potting Soil

    Crush Oreo cookies, and any cake scraps. Mix together to replicate potting soil. Then sprinkle potting soil on top of cakes.


    Insert Straw

    Place a plastic drinking straw into your cake, insert the stem of your fresh flowers inside the straw.


    Tips!

    If youre not comfortable working with fondant, or simply want to cut down on prep time, you can actually bake mychocolate cake recipe directlyin aterra cotta flower pot!


    Congratulations!

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