Oreo-Brownie Flowerpot Cakes for Birthdays and Garden Parties

Surprise your guests with these easy OREO-BROWNIE FLOWERPOT CAKES! They’re the perfect treat to serve at a child’s birthday party, a garden party or a springtime celebration. 

Birthday cakes are great but if you’re looking for a creative alternative to a traditional birthday cake for a child or for someone who loves gardening, you’ll love this idea.

Individual flowerpot cakes are whimsical, yummy, and easy to make.

Your guests will get a kick out of digging into these edible “potted plants” filled with gummy worms, candy rocks, and chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate!

My friend Kari messaged me the other day: “Hey, I made the cutest cakes with my daughter for her 8th birthday. Want the photos for your blog?” 

Kari is a professional photographer with mad camera skills, I jumped at the chance to share her Kari’s cakes with you.

You may also like our: Wacky Chocolate Depression Cake.

How to make Oreo-Brownie Flowerpot Cakes:

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Ingredients:

• unglazed, food-safe mini terra-cotta pots (or you can use these silicone flowerpot cake molds)
• non-stick cooking spray
• your favourite brownie recipe
• chocolate mousse
• Oreo cookies (one for the bottom of each pot and extras for the topping)
• candy rocks
• gummy worms
• fresh mint (if you don’t have mint, try this fresh flower idea from The Pioneer Woman)

First, I have to show you the master-plan for the flowerpot cakes, designed by the birthday girl herself.

I love the idea of having your child draw a blueprint for her cakes. Not only is it a fun way to kick off your baking session, the illustration will provide your child with a visual to follow when she’s assembling her cakes.

Making your flower pot cakes

Prepare your brownie batter

To start, you’ll need your favourite brownie recipe.

You can use a packaged brownie mix, but Kari and her daughter went with the real deal, and made their brownie batter from scratch.

Before putting your brownie batter into the pots, spray the inside of each pot with non-stick spray.

Cover the hole in the bottom of the flower pot

Next, you’ll need to do something about that little hole in the bottom of each pot. You don’t want your batter escaping.

Here’s what you’re going to do. Pop an Oreo cookie into the bottom of each flowerpot to cover the hole. That’s it. Leaky batter problem solved.

Fill pots with brownie mix and bake

Now you’re going to divide your brownie batter between the clay pots. Keep in mind that you’ll be adding worms, mousse and rocks on top of the brownies once they’re baked, so don’t fill your pots to the top.

Get your kids to say that out loud. “Keep in mind you’ll be adding worms, moose, and rocks to your brownies”.

Those are some crazy brownies. HA!

For this recipe, Kari and Colette divided their batter between nine flower pots.

Place your flower pots on a cookie sheet, and pop the cookie sheet into the oven at the temperature recommended for your brownie recipe.

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The brownies may bake more quickly than usual because they’re in individual pots. Or they could take a little longer because the pots are deeper than a baking pan. I’m not really sure, so I would check them at the 25-minute mark and every five-or-so minutes after that until they pass the toothpick test.

While her brownies were baking, the birthday girl headed out to the garden to snip some fresh mint to “plant’ in her flowerpots.

Prepare your Oreo topping

I have to show you how she made the decision to use crushed Oreo cookies to top her cakes with. You can do this with your kids too.

Colette filled 3 small cups with the following:

• dirt from the garden
• chocolate graham crumbs
• crushed Oreo cookies

Then she compared the graham crumbs and Oreos to the real dirt to determine which topping would look most realistic.

The Oreo cookies won, so she tossed a few more into the food processor and crushed them up.

Top your brownies

When her brownies had cooled after baking, she placed the gummy worms on top.

Then she covered the worms with a layer of chocolate mousse and a generous sprinkling of the crushed Oreos.

To finish, she nestled some candy rocks into the cookie crumb “dirt” and tucked a sprig of mint into each pot.

How cute are these cakes?

And how cute is this little face?!

Who would even think, at first glance, that these are cakes and not small potted plants?!

Not the birthday party attendees! After sending me the instructions for making their flowerpot cakes,  Kari added this note: We put them in a box from our local garden store and ta-da!!! We fooled our guests! 🙂

Happy Birthday, Colette!  Thanks so much for sharing your photos and recipe with us!

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