Flowerpot Cake
For May celebrations Martha and actress Marlo Thomas make Flowerpot Cakes. Part 1.
Flowerpot Cakes
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Flowerpot Cake
For May celebrations Martha and actress Marlo Thomas make Flowerpot Cakes. Part...
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Flowerpot Cake
For May celebrations Martha and actress Marlo Thomas make Flowerpot Cakes. Part...
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The Martha Stewart Show, March 2004
- Yield Makes 6
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Ingredients
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil, plus more for pots
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder, plus more for dusting
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg, plus 1 large egg yolk
- 3/4 cup buttermilk
- 3/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Quick Chocolate Frosting
- 1/2 cup crushed chocolate wafer cookies (about 10), for garnish
- Multicolored pebble-shaped chocolate candies, for garnish
- Mint sprigs, for garnish
Directions
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush inside of each flowerpot with oil, and line bottom with parchment paper round. Brush parchment with oil, and lightly dust with cocoa.
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Sift cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add egg and yolk, 3/4 cup warm water, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla; mix on low speed until smooth, about 1 minute.
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Divide batter among prepared pots, filling each about two-thirds full. Transfer to a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, rotating sheet about halfway through, until a cake tester inserted into centers comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Let cakes cool completely in the flowerpots on a wire rack.
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Frost cakes with an offset spatula; sprinkle with crushed cookies. Top with candies; "plant" 1 mint sprig in each cake.
I think these look great BUT DON'T YOU NEED TO PREPARE the TERRACOTTA POT BEFOREHAND??
THESE LITTLE CAKES ARE MOIST, RICH AND VERY CHOCOLATY. I USED 3/4C BATTER IN EACH POT (PURCHASED AT MICHAELS). THE BATTER MADE 7 POT CAKES. WHEN COOLED I SLICED THE TOPS OFF EVEN WITH THE POTS AND PUT ON A NICE THICK LAYER OF THE RECOMMENDED CHOCOLATE ICING. I PUT A CUTE LITTLE TRUFFLE FILLED ROBINS EGG ON THE TOP OF EACH AND DUSTED WITH CRUSHED CHOCOLATE GRAHAM CRACKERS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I HAD AVAILABLE. THE ICING RECIPE WILL FROST ABOUT 10 FLOWERPOT CAKES. THESE WERE A HIT FOR EASTER DINNER.
I made these cakes for my sisters bridal shower as the favor. Except I frosted them, and made chocolate flowered lollipops out of colored chocolates, put them in the cake, wrapped them in cellophane and tied wtih a bow. They were adorable and unique.
My mother use to make these years ago. She would use a green straw and place a daisy in the straw or different flowers. No, we didn't eat the flower. :P Very cute and very yummy. A nice childhood memory.
How cute!! I love this. Perfect for a girls brunch or dinner. I bet the cake is yummy too. Has to be from Martha. =) I wonder where to get the candy pebbles.