thelittlelemoncupcakeco: Spring Clay Pots with a Surprise (Dirt Cake)

Rapidito en Viernes=Quicky Fridays

Hola amigos! Hope you all had a great, healthy and productive week! Today I'm bringing you a little treat perfect for Spring, Easter, Birthday party..the sky is the limit when you are using your imagination.
It all started with a trip to the dollar store where I purchased everything I needed for this dessert. 1 bag of candy turned into 2, 3 ...well they kept multiplying,...and believe me when I tell you guys, I just went in for a big bottle of Iced Tea...oh well...since I can't bake or use fondant just create pretty things with icing...I figured, why not use what is already there to treat my guys with something festive for spring.
Here is how you make the Spring Clay Pots with a Surprise:

1 box of chocolate cupcake mix

4 little containers of chocolate pudding ($1 for 4 at the dollar store)

1 envelope of unflavored gelatin

1 cup of boiling water

1/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsps vanilla butter food flavoring

transparent tumbler cups

non toxic brown paint

Assorted Candies...don't forget to include gummy worms

First bake your cupcakes according to instructions. Even though I used cupcake mix I baked mine in a 9 inch baking pan.

While your cake is baking. Prepare the tumblers by painting the outside of them in brown paint. Let them dry.

See little helper...he was working hard on hid clay pot!

Some of them I only painted half (for the surprise)...there is a method to my madness folks!

Prepare your unflavored gelatin. By adding the boiling water to a container with the gelatin and sugar. The gelatin should dissolve in 5 minutes. Add the vanilla butter flavoring.

Distribute evenly in 4 tumblers. Put a couple of gummy worms inside. Place in the refrigerator to chill and set.

Once the gelatin mix has set, take some pudding and add it to each tumbler, as much or little as you want, I used 1 full pudding cup per tumbler, but that's just me.

Take a slice of your chocolate cake, crumble it and fill up the tumblers to the top with it!

Listo, it's time to use your imagination to decorate your clay pots!

Worms coming out of wet dirt (the wet effect is chocolate syrup)

A bunny and it's carrots in a field of greens...happy as he could be!

A little nest with twigs dusted on early snow...so sweet!

And a bouquet of flowers ready to be picked from your personal clay pot..

and oh, it you were wondering about the surprise...here

My little one was thrilled to find "critters" coming in and out, and swimming underneath all that dirt in his clay pot, oh and they refrigerate well too!