Cupcake Flower Pots, how-to

September 8th, 2009 by justJENN

I wanted an edible favor for a floral themed baby shower that I was hosting. I sketched this idea out and it turned out just as I had hoped. Beautiful for party tables and sooo tasty. It’s hard to resist pretty chocolate cupcakes.

ingredients:
chocolate cupcakes (recipe, here)
ganache
sugared flowers
cleaned flower pots

You can make these with any chocolate cupcake, you just want to get a ‘dirt’ like look for the top. So I used a Chocolate Chip Mascarpone Cupcake with a chocolate ganache. The ganache is perfect, not only in flavor, but for setting the decorations on. I didn’t want the flowers to get lost in a mass of frosting.

You can hand pipe all the flowers, which I was going to do, but instead I went to my local cake and candy supply store and happened upon the most perfect sugar flowers ever – which gave just the right look for a garden of a variety of flowers. They also had leaves which were made of wafer cookies!

After you dip your cupcake into the ganache, apply the flowers and simply place them into a clean flower pot. I didn’t paint mine, because I really wanted them to have a realistic garden look. If you bunch a few of these together, they’d make a fantastic centerpiece for a shower!