Ice Cream Flower Pot Recipes

SPRINGY FLOWER POT DESSERTS - PIONEER WOMAN RECIPE

Steps:

• Prep Time: 30 Minutes Difficulty: Easy Slice the pound cake (frozen is fine) into 1 to 1 ½ inch slices. Next, with a biscuit cutter or cookie cutter that fits the bottom of the flower pot cut the slices into rounds. (You can put the "scraps" in a Ziploc freezer bag and use them at a later date). Into each of your (washed and dried) flowerpots, drop a round of pound cake, lightly pressing to make sure they are all the way down. Hold a straw up against the side of a flowerpot and snip it so it's about ½ to 1 inch shorter than the top. Then, just use that as a guide to cut the rest of the straws. (Note: You can skip the straw step if you are doing a worm version instead of a flower version). Stick each straw into the center of each pot, anchoring it into the cake. Now, grab whatever flavor ice cream you'd like to use, and either set it out on the counter to soften it OR nuke it for 20 seconds or so. It needs to be somewhat soft for this step. Just spoon it into the pots, working it around the straw, until it almost reaches the very tip top of the straw. Clean up the top edges of the pot with a damp paper towel. (Note: If you are doing the worm version, just fill the pot half-way up, put in some gummy worms and put more ice cream on top). Now return the pots to the freezer until firm. In a food processor pulse the Oreo cookies until they resemble nice, rich topsoil. (You can also crush them in a Ziploc bag with a rolling pin). When they are nice and firm, take the pots out of the freezer and spoon the dirt (crushed Oreos) over the top. Be generous here! Place a fresh flower into the straw (on the flower version) and then cover the straw with a bit more dirt.

ICE CREAM FLOWERPOTS WITH WORMS

Steps:

• Place about 2 tablespoons of chocolate wafer crumbs in the bottom of each cup. Add 1/2 cup chocolate ice cream and press down with back of spoon. Place 2 gummy worms in each cup on outside edge and top with another 1/2 cup of chocolate ice cream. Sprinkle 2 more tablespoons of chocolate crumbs over ice cream. Sprinkle 1/4 cup green coconut over crumbs for grass. Press a plastic straw into center of each cup for the stem. Place the cups in the freezer and let chill until firm. Make flowers with toothpicks, candy and cookies. To serve, press the"flower" into the straw and press a jelly candy spearmint leaf into each pot along the stem.

FLOWERPOTS (BAKED ALASKA)

Steps:

• NOTE: Flower pots should be 2 1/2 in. high by 3 in. Diameter.
• Sterilize flower pots by boiling.
• Dry pots.
• Place a piece of plain yellow cake in the bottom of each pot to cover the hole in the bottom.
• Add ice cream or sherbet to pots until three-quarters full.
• In the
• middle
• of each pot, force a large ice cream soda straw and cut off even with top of the pot.
• Pile meringue around the inside of the pot, leaving s over the soda straw open.
• Bake at 400 degrees until the meringue turn brown, (about 5 minutes).
• Insert fresh flowers in the soda straw.
• For a holiday look, use holly and red roses or carnations.
• For the Meringue:
• Beat the egg whites until foamy before slowly adding the sugar, beat well after each addition.
• Beat until shiny and stiff, but not dry.
• Fold in vanilla.
• Each flowerpot requires about a third of a cup of meringue