Flower Pot Cake Pops for Mother’s Day

 In our final Mother’s Day idea for 2014, we are working on Flower Pot Cake Pops!!  Yes, in the video introduction I accidentally say “cupcakes”, so don’t be confused!  They’re cake pops!!  All I can say is, “Oops.”  Forgive me.

What I like about these cake pops is that they are bright and cheery, which is perfect for any spring time celebration, and definitely perfect for a wonderful Mom! You can make the pots any colour that you want, and for mine, I chose to use the new Peanut Butter melting wafers from Merckens.  I had previously seen them at Bulk Barn (where I get many of my supplies) and thought that they would be a good colour for these flower pots.  The wafers melted perfectly, and they also tasted great!  Just like peanut butter chips.

I love being able to incorporate parts of previous projects in new ideas, such as using the mini royal icing daisies that I made a couple of weeks ago with cupcakes (link below in the ingredients), as a topper to these cake pops.  I always seem to end up with extra flowers whenever I make them, which is a good thing in case of breakage, so when I was planning on what type of flowers to use for these cake pops, the daisies literally fell out of storage, saying “Pick us! Pick us!”

This is a pretty straight forward cake pop tutorial, but as always, if you have any questions, just let me know in the comments! 

Flower Pot Cake Pops

Ingredients:

• cake crumbs
• buttercream
• cake pop sticks
• tan/peanut butter melting wafers (Merckens)
• pink fondant
• purple fondant
• green fondant
• white dragees
• Chocolate cookie crumbs
• Royal Icing Daisies

1. Combine one cup of cake crumbs with 2 tablespoons of buttercream and blend together using your hands until you get a playdough like consistency. If the mixture is too wet, add more crumbs, too dry, add more buttercream.
2. Using a small cookie scoop, scoop out equal portions of dough and roll each into a small ball. Shape each ball into a cylinder shape and set on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. 
3. Roll out cake pop dough to 1/4″ thickness, and using a small (1″-1.5″) circle cutter, cut out circles of dough. 
4. Melt the chocolate in the microwave in a microwave safe bowl, by using 30-60 second intervals at 50% power and stirring after each interval of time. When melted, dip lollipop stick a 1/4″ depth into the melted chocolate and insert into the bottom of the pot. 
5. Place a small amount of chocolate onto each round disc, and place pot on top of each disc.  Allow to hardened completely. 
6. While chocolate is hardening, roll out fondant and cut out small flowers(pink, purple) and leaves (green).  Place into a small flower former to shape the petals, and place a white dragee into the centre of each flower.  
7. When pots are hardened, dip entire pot into the melted chocolate and place upright in a cake pop stand (or Styrofoam chunk) to hardened completely. 
8. Dip top of pot into chocolate again, and then directly into cookie crumbs to look like dirt. 
9. Using a small amount of chocolate for glue, attach the leaves and flowers to the top of the pot, on top of the dirt.