Ingredients: - mini terra cotta pots - 1 box dark chocolate or devil's food cake mix - bag of gummy worms - sugar flowers or faux flowers
For the filling: - 2 ounces semi-sweet baker's chocolate - 6 tablespoons pure cane sugar - 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 5 egg yolks - 1 1/2 cups half & half - 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extractPreheat your oven to 350F. Follow the directions and make the batter for the cake mix. Set batter aside.
For the filling, chop the chocolate into fine pieces. Next, mix the flour, sugar, salt, egg yolks and half & half in a small saucepan. The heat will make the filling thicken. Once thickened, remove from heat. Stir in the vanilla and the chopped chocolate. Stir until blended completely.
Place the terra cotta pots on a cookie sheet. You don't need to worry about non-stick spray since the cupcakes will be eaten directly out of the little pots! Squeeze batter into 1/3 of the pot.
Next, layer another 1/3 of the pot with the chocolate filling.
Finally, add one more layer of chocolate cake batter on top of the filling. Once finished baking, the middle filling gives the illusion of mud. Sounds gross, but tastes amazing!
Bake for 30 minutes. In the meantime, prepare the faux flowers or sugar flowers. You can buy sugar flowers at Michael's or you can also just buy faux flowers and trim them down. If you are an experienced flower designer using gum paste, by all means create your own flowers! I am still currently practicing with my gum paste decorating kit, so for today I used faux flowers.
Place the flowers on top of the terra cotta pot and add a little gummy worm for effect!
While browsing in Michael’s the other day (which is dangerously located too close to my home in LA – bye bye bank account!), I noticed these adorable terra cotta pots in all sorts of sizes. That’s when I got the idea to use a terra cotta pot for a cupcake. When I was a little girl, my parents would treat my sister and I to TGI Friday’s for their speciality dessert just for kids that featured pudding, Oreo cookie crumbs, and gummy worms (I can’t remember the title exactly, but I think it was something like “Dirt in a Cup”). So I decided to recreate that with my own version involving cupcakes with the cupcakes as the dirt, chocolate filling as the mud, and gummy worms as those slimy garden worms.
Ingredients: - mini terra cotta pots - 1 box dark chocolate or devil's food cake mix - bag of gummy worms - sugar flowers or faux flowers
For the filling: - 2 ounces semi-sweet baker's chocolate - 6 tablespoons pure cane sugar - 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 5 egg yolks - 1 1/2 cups half & half - 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Preheat your oven to 350F. Follow the directions and make the batter for the cake mix. Set batter aside.
For the filling, chop the chocolate into fine pieces. Next, mix the flour, sugar, salt, egg yolks and half & half in a small saucepan. The heat will make the filling thicken. Once thickened, remove from heat. Stir in the vanilla and the chopped chocolate. Stir until blended completely.
Place the terra cotta pots on a cookie sheet. You don’t need to worry about non-stick spray since the cupcakes will be eaten directly out of the little pots! Squeeze batter into 1/3 of the pot.
Next, layer another 1/3 of the pot with the chocolate filling.
Finally, add one more layer of chocolate cake batter on top of the filling. Once finished baking, the middle filling gives the illusion of mud. Sounds gross, but tastes amazing!
Bake for 30 minutes. In the meantime, prepare the faux flowers or sugar flowers. You can buy sugar flowers at Michael’s or you can also just buy faux flowers and trim them down. If you are an experienced flower designer using gum paste, by all means create your own flowers! I am still currently practicing with my gum paste decorating kit, so for today I used faux flowers.
Place the flowers on top of the terra cotta pot and add a little gummy worm for effect!
so so cute!
I love this!! Thanks for the post my son will love these!!
omg these are soo cute!!
My mom makes the oreo cookie dessert and calls it Dirt Cake. It has the pudding and cream cheese filling though and not any cake. Everyone always asks her to make it when we have get-togethers.
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