Mother's Day Chocolate Flower Pot Cake
Give something special this Mother's Day. Instead of buying expensive flowers, why not bake a miniature chocolate flower pot cake?
Ingredients
The Cake
- 150 g flour
- 150 g sugar
- 150 g butter
- 150 g eggs (2 eggs)
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
The Frosting
- 80 g cream cheese
- 80 g powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
The Decorations
- 1 kg White Fondant
- 2 leaves mint
- food colour (brown / orange for pot, colours for flowers)
Instructions
The Cake
- Mix butter and sugar together to make a fluffy buttercream texture
- Add eggs and vanilla extract, mix, add flour and cocoa power, mix again
- Bake at 170C for 30 min
- When cool, cut into squares and cut off the outer "baked" layers of of the cake
- Put two squares together and cut off sides to make flower pot shape
The Frosting
- Mix all ingredients together until smooth
- Fill and cover cake layers with frosting
The Decorations
- Colour the fondant with Food Colouring
- Roll out fondant and measure your flower pot to know how much you need
- Cover the flower pot and cut off excess. Smooth out any bumps
- Cut a thin strip of fondant and attach it to the top of the pot with a bit of frosting to make it stick
- Crumble up the leftover cake bits and add to top of pot
- Add further decorations as desired (flowers, leaves etc.)