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Flowerpot Cupcakes, also known as Dirt Cupcakes, are chocolate devil’s food cake baked in mini terracotta flower pots, topped with frosting, Oreo crumbs and pretty paper flowers to mimic flowerpots!
Hi everyone, it’s the last week of the spring desserts series so I really wanted to leave it with a bang! I think these flowerpot cupcakes MIGHT be the cutest dessert I’ve ever seen… I don’t know it’s a close call! I’ve seen different versions of these floating around the internets and just had to make one myself!
Flowerpot Cupcakes, also known as Dirt Cupcakes, are chocolate devil’s food cake baked in mini terracotta flower pots, topped with frosting, Oreo crumbs and pretty paper flowers to mimic flowerpots!
Hi everyone, it’s the last week of the spring desserts series so I really wanted to leave it with a bang! I think these flowerpot cupcakes MIGHT be the cutest dessert I’ve ever seen… I don’t know it’s a close call! I’ve seen different versions of these floating around the internets and just had to make one myself!
They are very easy, fun and would be a great activity to decorate with kids! Wouldn’t they just get a kick out of “planting” the flowers after sprinkling Oreo dirt on their dirt cupcakes?! I know I would have loved that!
So, to make these I just used a boxed devil’s food cake because it is the darkest color there is to mimic dirt for these dirt cupcakes and well… because it’s freaking delicious. Topped with my chocolate malt buttercream frosting (I TOLD you I had plans for that recipe!) and just sprinkled with Oreos that were turned into crumbs in a food processor.
I picked up the paper flowers off a shop I found on etsy. You can literally find everything on there and it’s always so cute!
Flowerpot Cupcakes
Flowerpot Cupcakes (Dirt Cupcakes)
Ingredients
- 1 devil's food cake mix
- 1 1/4 Cup water
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 3 eggs
- 1 recipe chocolate malt buttercream frosting
- 10 Oreo pulverized into crumbs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix cake mix, water, oil and 3 eggs in a large bowl with hand mixer on low speed for 30 seconds. Turn it on to medium speed a mix well for 2 minutes.
- Pour into terracotta pots that are set out onto a sheet tray. Make sure pots are washed thoroughly and dried completely. Pour in batter 1/2 of the way to 2/3 of the way up, do not over fill!
- Bake for 19 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Place the sheet tray on a wired rack and let cool completely. After cooled, trim off any excess cake that flowed over the top if that happened to you.
- Make the frosting and place a heaping tablespoon on top and smooth out with a knife. Add a sprinkle of the Oreo crumbs. Decorate as you wish, serve with a spoon and enjoy!
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These would be so cute to surprise your kid’s class with and then after they finish eating them, they can plant a little plant themselves!
I really really hope you liked today’s fun recipe/project!! Now, go on and head over to Parrish’s last spring desserts recipe for Lemon Cheesecake Cookie Bites, yum!
For more yummy spring recipe ideas, visit my other posts below:
Bunny Bark
Orange Curd Vanilla Meringue Cookies
Individual Frozen Creamsicle Pies
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When you want the dirt dessert dressed up for a party, my Halloween dirt cups come with RIP cookie tombstones and ghost Peeps.
For a fall party treat, pipe up a batch of these apple pie cupcakes.
Epic fail. The cake wouldn’t get done, kept testing and toothpick was still wet. Finally took them out after about double the time. Put the pan on a cooling rack, and they then all fell with the exception of 1. They were puffed up and beautiful when I removed them from the oven, but again all fell about half way down,. I tested one with a spoon and still very undone half way down. So that was a waste of time and money. ARGHHHH
I didn’t use anything on the post before hand. You have to eat the cakes with a spoon, they will stick no matter what!
How did you prep the pots? Grease and flour? Grease only?
I’m not sure, the ones I used in this recipe did have the hole. They didn’t leak too much as you can see in the photos.
I can’t find terra cotta pots that dont have the hole at the bottom. Any suggestions on places that might have them?
Yes, I used the same ones!
I bought some clay pots in Joanne’s craft store in the artificial plant section. As long as I wash these are they the correct ones to use?
Can’t wait to try them they look great!
I love these!!! What Etsy shop did you buy the paper flowers from?
This is the coolest idea ever! I will PIN it for later
http://www.mygirlishwhims.com/2015/04/your-whims-wednesday-206-and-features.html
These are tooooo cute!