Lollipop Flower Pots Recipes

FLOWERPOT DIRT CAKE

Steps:

• In a food processor or blender, crush cookies until fine. Set aside. In a bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and sugar until smooth. In another bowl, mix pudding and milk until well blended. Fold into cream cheese mixture. Fold in whipped topping. In the flowerpot, alternate layers of cookie crumbs and pudding mixture, ending with crumbs. Chill several hours or overnight. Decorate with silk flowers and gummy worms.

LOLLIPOP LOVE HAND PIE BOUQUET

Steps:

• For the pie dough: Place the flour, butter, shortening, sugar and salt into a large mixing bowl. Rub the mixture between your fingers and thumbs repeatedly until the lumps of butter are much smaller and the entire mixture has a breadcrumb-like texture. This should take 2 to 3 minutes.
• Next, slowly pour in the ice water (you may not need all of it), mixing it into the dough with your hands as you pour. Add just enough water to the point where all the flour on the bottom of the bowl has been absorbed, the dough has formed into a rough ball and the bowl appears clean.
• Once you've incorporated the water, place the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead it with your hands 2 to 3 times; gently shape into a flat disc. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and allow to chill in the fridge for 1 hour. The dough can be kept in the fridge for up to 2 days.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C/350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with a silicone mat or parchment paper.
• Once the dough has chilled, place it onto a lightly floured work surface. With a rolling pin, roll the dough out evenly until it is about 1/8 inch thick. Using a 3-inch round cookie cutter, cut out 16 discs of dough. If you do not have enough dough to cut 16, simply re-roll the scraps of dough and cut out the remaining discs. Place the discs onto the prepared baking sheet.
• For the filling: Use a small heart-shaped cookie cutter (roughly 1/4 inch wide, but you can make the hearts as big as you want!) to cut hearts out of the center of 8 of the discs. On each of the remaining 8 discs, place 3/4 teaspoon of jam in the middle and lightly egg wash the edges with a pastry brush. Place a 5-inch lollipop stick into the center of each jam disc. Place a heart disc of dough on top of a jam-covered disc. Gently press the discs together at the edges, sealing them against the egg-washed edge. Using a spare lollipop stick, seal the 2 pieces of dough together by pressing the edge of the lollipop stick into the dough to create a small indentation of the stick all the way around the outside of the disc. Repeat with the remaining discs. Lightly egg wash the top of the discs, then sprinkle a pinch of sugar over the top of each.
• Bake until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Allow to cool for 15 minutes.
• To serve, place a Styrofoam ball into the bottom of a flower pot or vase. Using a skewer, gently pierce a hole in the ball, then take a cooled pie pop and push the lollipop stick into the hole you just created. Repeat, creating holes all over the ball until you have filled it with you pie pops. Using some pink ribbon, tie a small bow around the outside of the flower pot and serve!

LOLLIPOP POTS

Steps:

• Glue floral foam to the bottom of pot. Stick a large swirled lollipop into the floral foam. Shovel an assortment of candy and gumballs into pot. To set each pot "abloom," decorate with fun stickers. Arrange finished pots on herb garden planter and add remaining candy. Repeat process with other pots.

RUSTIC FLOWER POT BREAD LOAVES OR BREAD ROLLS

Steps:

• To prepare the flower pots:.
• Take two to six earthenware flower pots (3 to 6 inches in size). Wash thoroughly and grease them inside and outside, with lard, butter or oil. (Please use NEW plant pots, of course!).
• Heat in a pre-heated oven at 190°C; 375°F: Gas 5, for 25-30 minutes.
• Repeat the process two or three times for a good "seasoning" and non-stick surface on your flower pots.
• Before baking with them, line the base with greaseproof paper or baking parchment - especially if there is a hole in the bottom of the flower pot!
• To make the Bread:.
• If you are using dried yeast. Dissolve one teaspoon of sugar in the warm water then add the dried yeast. Leave until frothy, about ten minutes. If you are using fresh yeast, blend it into the warm water.
• Place the flours, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl and rub in the butter.
• (Add any extras you might be using here.).
• Add the yeast liquid to the dry ingredients and mix to a soft dough.
• Turn the dough onto a work surface and knead the dough by folding towards you, then pushing down and away from you with the heel of your hand. Give the dough a quarter turn and repeat the action. Knead until smooth and no longer sticky.
• Cut the dough in to even sized pieces and place in the prepared and well oiled/buttered flower pots, which should be placed on a baking tray. Glaze with milk or salted water and sprinkle with mixed seeds.
• Place the pots inside a large oiled polythene bag and leave in a warm place until the dough doubles its size, about 45 - 60 minutes.
• Remove the polythene bag and bake on the middle shelf of a hot oven at 230°C (450°F) or Gas 8 for 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the size of your flower pots, or until the bread is browned and sounds hollow when tapped.
• Remove the bread from the flower pots and cool on a wire rack. You can then replace them in the flower pots to serve, once they have cooled!
• This dough can be proved in a bread maker/machine for ease and with good results. Follow your machine's instructions, I add liquids to my bread maker first and then dry ingredients last.
• Add the extras before adding the liquids to the dry ingredients and if using a bread maker/machine, add them when the "Extras" alert sounds or add them to the "Exras" tray.

FLOWERPOT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a 6-inch-round and an 8-inch-round cake pan with parchment paper; coat with cooking spray. Prepare the cake mix as directed; divide between the pans and bake 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool.
• Level the tops of the cakes with a serrated knife (save the trimmings). Halve the cakes horizontally. Working on a cake board or plate, stack the 8-inch layers, then the 6-inch layers, frosting between each layer.
• Hold a serrated knife at an angle and trim the edges of the layer cake all the way around to make an upside-down pot shape. Cover the cake with all but 1/2 cup of the remaining frosting; freeze 30 minutes.
• Sprinkle 3 tablespoons cocoa powder on a sheet of parchment; put the fondant on top, make a small well in the middle and put the food coloring in the well. Knead until the color is even.
• Dust a surface with cocoa powder; roll out the colored fondant into a 24-by-6 1/2-inch rectangle, trimming the edges to make them straight. Cut off a 24-by-1 1/4-inch strip of fondant; set aside.
• Wrap the wide piece of fondant around the cake, pressing and smoothing it with your fingers. Trim the excess with a paring knife.
• Reroll the fondant scraps and cut out a 5-inch circle; press the fondant circle on top of the cake to form the pot bottom. Invert the cake onto a board. Lightly brush the thin strip of fondant with water; attach to the top edge of the cake, allowing the strip to come slightly above the edge. Trim the ends.
• Cover the top of the cake with the remaining 1/2 cup frosting, then crumble the cake trimmings on top.
• When ready to serve, stick mint sprigs and edible flowers into the cake.

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.

LOLLIPOP FLOWER POTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Lightly grease 36 mini (1-3/4-inch) muffin pan cups.
• Shape dough into 36 balls; press onto bottoms and up sides of prepared muffin cups.
• Place 1 caramel in center of each muffin cup.
• Bake 10 to 11 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
• Cool cookies in pan on wire racks.
• Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Sprinkle heaping 1 teaspoon cookie crumbs into center of each cookie.
• Flatten gummy fruit slices slightly; press into leaf shapes.
• Push each lollipop stick through 1 or 2 leaves as desired.
• Push 1 lollipop with leaves into each cookie cup.