Flower Pot Cake

This flower pot cake is one of my favorites and when I started seeing other bakers make them I wanted to try something a little different for Mothers day 2011. Most give cards some flowers maybe balloons. Well, I wanting to be a little different and being a baker I knew this would be a wonderful idea for a gift for my Mom.

It was so fun to make and pretty. I made cookie pops and covered them in chocolate and decorated them with butter cream or little fondant decoration.

any sugar cookie recipe will work just make sure you roll them out thick 3/4 in and pierce them with a bamboo skewer I soaked in water first so it won't burn while it cooks. Bake them till they are barely browned.Let them cool on the pan for 5-6 min then transfer carefully to a cooling rack.

I baked the 3 8in cakes the night before so they could cool. I also used a basic butter cream for the filling and the cake.

The cake after I assembled it, crumb coated it and inserted some skewers for support.

Here are some of the other goodies I included in my "flower"display. Chocolate covered marshmallows with candy sprinkles and some pink coconut!

I wanted to let you know I learned a few things making this cake. I did use a box mix for this cake. I had it around to make some cake balls but decided to use it along with the my recipe for butter cake I used for one of the three layers. I noticed that the boxed cake was not dense enough to hold up to a cake that is going to support the skewers that was holding the cookies and the marshmallows. I noticed this when I woke up and while dragging myself in the kitchen to get my morning coffee I  noticed that the cookies had caused the back to fall off the cake onto the table. Oh dear!! I was able to save it by using some extra butter cream I had left over and good thing it fell off it one piece. So using butter cream and repositioning the cookies it turned out pretty good! After I fixed it I put it back in the refrigerator so it could set up a bit.

Success!!!!!! What do you think? Learning from my mistakes I will be using my knowledge I learned to make an even better one next time. I will be making the cookies again soon. They were a hit and so good.

Here is a picture of my Mom with her Mothers Day "pot of flowers" cake.

Enjoy!
The Pastry Diva