Lollipop Flower Pots Recipes

LOLLIPOP FLOWER POTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Lightly grease 36 mini (1-3/4-inch) muffin pan cups.
• Shape dough into 36 balls; press onto bottoms and up sides of prepared muffin cups.
• Place 1 caramel in center of each muffin cup.
• Bake 10 to 11 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
• Cool cookies in pan on wire racks.
• Remove to wire racks; cool completely.
• Sprinkle heaping 1 teaspoon cookie crumbs into center of each cookie.
• Flatten gummy fruit slices slightly; press into leaf shapes.
• Push each lollipop stick through 1 or 2 leaves as desired.
• Push 1 lollipop with leaves into each cookie cup.

LOLLIPOP POTS

Steps:

• Glue floral foam to the bottom of pot. Stick a large swirled lollipop into the floral foam. Shovel an assortment of candy and gumballs into pot. To set each pot "abloom," decorate with fun stickers. Arrange finished pots on herb garden planter and add remaining candy. Repeat process with other pots.

FLOWERPOT CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Lightly oil the inside of the terracotta pots with a little vegetable oil and place on a baking tray. Place a paper mini muffin case in the bottom of each pot.
• Put the flour, baking powder and cocoa in a bowl and stir in the sugar.
• Crack the egg into a jug and whisk with the milk and remaining oil. Pour this over the flour and cocoa mixture, and stir in with 50g of the chocolate chips. Be careful not to overmix - you want a loose but still quite lumpy mixture. Spoon into the pots up to three-quarters full. Place in the middle of the oven and bake for 12-15 mins until risen and firm. Transfer to a wire rack (still in the pots) and leave to cool.
• Put the rest of the chocolate chips in a small bowl and melt over a small pan of gently simmering water (don't let the water touch the bowl), or put in a microwave-proof bowl and heat on High for 1 min until melted.
• Spread the tops of the muffins with the melted chocolate. Sprinkle over the chocolate decorations and add 2 rice paper wafer daisies to each pot to serve. Will keep for 2 days in an airtight container.

FLOWERPOT CAKES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Brush inside of each flowerpot with oil, and line bottom with parchment paper round. Brush parchment with oil, and lightly dust with cocoa.
• Sift cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add egg and yolk, 3/4 cup warm water, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla; mix on low speed until smooth, about 1 minute.
• Divide batter among prepared pots, filling each about two-thirds full. Transfer to a rimmed baking sheet. Bake, rotating sheet about halfway through, until a cake tester inserted into centers comes out clean, 45 to 50 minutes. Let cakes cool completely in the flowerpots on a wire rack.
• Frost cakes with an offset spatula; sprinkle with crushed cookies. Top with candies; "plant" 1 mint sprig in each cake.

FLOWERPOT DESSERT

Steps:

• Wash and dry flowerpot. Place vanilla wafer over drainage hole. Fill pot with ice cream; sprinkle with cookie crumbs. Cover and freeze until firm, about 1 hour. Wash stems of silk flowers and insert into ice cream just before serving.

LOLLIPOPS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place a large heatproof glass measuring cup with a spout in oven.
• In a small bowl, whisk together sugar and cream of tartar. In a medium saucepan (just large enough to cover burner on stove), bring 1 cup water, corn syrup, and sugar mixture to a boil, slowly stirring, over medium heat. Moisten a pastry brush with water and brush down sides of pan. Continue cooking until mixture reaches 300 degrees on a candy thermometer. (Do not add thermometer to saucepan before mixture comes to a boil, as it will crystallize around thermometer).
• Remove saucepan from heat; let stand until cooled to 275 degrees. Add food coloring and lemon extract; stir to combine.
• Remove glass measuring cup from oven. Transfer mixture to glass measuring cup; return measuring cup to oven until no bubbles remain, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Fill a baking dish with an even layer of popcorn kernels or rice; set a 3 1/2-inch-wide and 1/4-to-1 1/2-inch-deep mold in popcorn to hold steady. Place a lollipop stick in mold and pour candy mixture into mold. Let set at room temperature, until mold and sugar mixture are room temperature, about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, keep remaining candy mixture warm in oven. Carefully remove lollipop from mold and repeat process with remaining candy mixture.

LOLLIPOP COOKIE BOUQUETS

Steps:

• For the cookies, cream shortening and sugar in a bowl. Beat in egg, milk and vanilla. Combine flour, baking powder and salt; add to the creamed mixture and mix well., On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to 1/4-in. thickness. Cut out 16 shapes with cookie cutters dipped in flour (six flowers, six hearts, two baseball players or gingerbread men and two 2-1/4-in. rounds for the baseball). Place the cardboard templates for the baseball cap and glove onto the dough and cut around them with a sharp knife, making two caps and two gloves., Place five cookies each on two ungreased baking sheets. Place a wooden stick on top of each cookie, leaving 3 in. extending for the handle. Top each cookie with the same-shaped cutout. Press edges gently to seal cookies together., Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until cookies are golden brown. Cool on wire racks, propping up each stick so that is parallel to the rack., For the frosting, cream butter and confectioners' sugar in a bowl. Beat in the milk and vanilla until smooth. Place 1/4 cup of frosting each into four small bowls. With paste food coloring, tint one bowl yellow, one pink and one blue; leave one white. Place 1 tablespoon of frosting each into four custard cups. Tint one cup dark brown, one red, one light brown and one green., For mother's lollipop bouquet, use yellow, pink and blue frosting to frost the heart and flower cookies. Insert round tip into a pastry or plastic bag; fill the bag with green frosting. Outline flower cookies and add dots in center. , Add "Mom" to one heart cookie. Insert star tip into a pastry or plastic bag; fill bag with white frosting. Pipe a star-shaped outline onto heart cookies. Place cookies on waxed paper to harden., Cut a piece of florist foam the size of the wicker basket. Push foam into basket to fit tightly. Insert flower and heart lollipops into foam. Arrange Easter grass over foam., For father's lollipop bouquet, frost the baseball, baseball cap (excluding the brim) and the player's uniform white. Insert round tip into a pastry or plastic bag; fill bag with red frosting. Pipe lines on the cap and outline the player's uniform; add "#1 Dad" on uniform. Pipe a smile on the player's face, strips on the player's pants and stick marks on the baseball. Frost the brim of the baseball cap red and the baseball glove light brown. Insert round tip into a pastry or plastic bag; fill the bag with dark brown frosting. Pipe stitch marks on the glove. Outline the glove and pipe eyes and hair on the player., Cut a pieces of florist's foam to fit inside the coffee mug. Push the foam into the mug to fit tightly. Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over the foam. Insert baseball player, cap, glove and baseball cookie lollipops into foam. Tuck the blue tissue paper around the cookies.