Ice Cream Flower Pot Desserts
- 1 whole pound cake (store-bought, frozen)
- 1 gallon ice cream, your favorite flavor
- 1 package chocolate sandwich cookies, such as Oreo's
- 1 package gummy worms
- 8 small clay flower pots (lead free)
- 8 straws
- Fresh cut flowers
- Slice the pound cake (frozen is fine) into 1- to 1 1/2-inch slices.
- Next, with a biscuit cutter or cookie cutter that fits the bottom of the flower pot, cut the slices into rounds.
- (You can put the scraps in a zip-top freezer bag and use them at a later date.)
- Into each of your (washed and dried) flower pots, drop a round of pound cake, lightly pressing to make sure they are all the way down.
- Hold a straw up against the side of a flowerpot and snip it so it's 1/2 to 1 inch shorter than the top.
- Then, just use that as a guide to cut the rest of the straws.
- Stick each straw into the center of each pot, anchoring it into the cake.
- Now, grab whatever flavor ice cream you'd like to use, and either set it out on the counter to soften it OR nuke it for 20 seconds or so.
- It needs to be somewhat soft for this step.
- Just spoon it into the pots, working it around the straw, until it almost reaches the very tip top of the straw.
- Clean up the top edges of the pot with a damp paper towel.
- Now return the pots to the freezer until firm.
- In a food processor, pulse the cookies until they resemble nice, rich topsoil.
- (You can also crush them in a zip-top bag with a rolling pin.)
- When they are nice and firm, take the pots out of the freezer.
- Place a couple of gummy worms on top of the ice cream, then spoon the dirt (crushed cookies) over the top.
- Be generous here!
- Place a fresh flower into the straw and serve immediately.
cake, gallon ice cream, chocolate sandwich cookies, gummy worms, clay flower, straws, flowers
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/ice-cream-flower-pot-desserts-recipe.html (may not work)