Someone told me I could use a regular terracotta pot as as cake pan to make a plant pot shape? Doesn't sound right to me. Would it withstand an oven? I think maybe a fridge cake, but has anyone ever used one in an oven? If so, how did the cake turn out?I want a pot shape and this sounds too easy to be true? Or am I just potty myself?

Id like to know an answer to this question myself. I have only seen it on this website http://www.verydifferentcakes.com/ theres a quick video that shows her on sugar rush making a cake and mini terracotta cake combo. looks good just watch the little video on the left its the first one.
I would also like to know if they probably line them with parchment paper i would assume?

I have baked a cake in a clean new terracot plant pot. Check out my cookie bouquet with the terracotta pot. The choc cake was baked in the pot and the cake was iced with green icing to look like grass.

Yes it is possible but you should season the pot first and then once this is done grease line with parchment and off you go. See my photos

LeeAnn, season it first. Do you mean heat it in an oven before you use it?

Cover it in vegetable oil all over......and then bake for an hour 180.....Dont forget these pots have been fired at high temp and can withstand heat...... I also use a flower nail just because I think it doesnt hurt to disperse the heat. Good luck

what is a flower nail?

I thought that what it was. Thanks

I love the idea of cooking in a flower pot. Will add this to the list of must tries.

Thanks

Thank you all for your help - and that picture is beautiful, good job. I will give it a try - just hope I remember to take out the plant first! lol Thanks again.

How did you get the cake out of the pot?
Do you break the pot or sort of scoop it out?

Yea! It worked. I lined the bottom and greased like crazy. I also put my cake nail in over the little hole in the bottom. Cake came out clean too, just as a normal pan. I don't have anything in mind for a pot cake, was just curious after talking with someone about it. Thanks guys.

thanks for the info cant wait to try it maybe for mothers day

So LizzyB,

when the cake came out of the pot,did it look like the pot? with the rim too? Can you post a picture? I want to try this too.


What size pot did you use?

I have baked in a Terracotta pot and made it into an Angel for Chrsitmas. There is no problems doing it.

mjjandz, sorry haven't checked in for a little while.
The cake came out just the shape of a pot, but no rim, I guess a strip of MMF after covering the thing in MMF would be the way to go. I used a small pot - 4in x 5in, just a little wee thing really and used some mixture when we were making cupcakes, it really didn't take much at all. BUT, after I had posted my happy success story - gravity started to kick in, and it lost a bit of it's height. Sorry, no photo as I was only messing about and then sat down with my GD and ate the thing up. I do feel happy enough though to have a go at making another and actually decorating it - I saw a neat cactus cake in a pot, will post a piccie when I do it.

I wonder how much cake mix for a larger pot? I was thinking of making this for our Easter dinner.

what a great idea for a "worm" cake!
I am thinking of doing this, using crushed oreo's on the top for dirt, with gummy worms sticking out

I suppose some maths comes into play for bigger pots. I gave it a guess and hit lucky with a little pot. yewww, worm cake?? Sounds quite neat!

I have never tried a cake in a flower pot. But I used to bake bread in them years ago. It always came out crusty and delicious!

this is a great thread! I've been wondering how to do this so thanks for asking. I want to try it for teacher appreciation gifts.

LeeAnn - you're cake is beautiful!

I'm so excited to see this thread. I have wanted to make cookie bouquets in a cake. So I am going to give that a try. I'll bake the cake in the pot, use the grass tip and then insert cookies that are flower shapes Thanks for the tips!

I was planning on making a flower pot cake with round cake and cutting it to shape, but this seems like an easier solution. Will have to try it, thanks for this post.

I was just wondering , when you wash it do you use just regular dishwashing liquid or something else?

I washed my pot by hand with normal dish washing liquid but I washed it about 6 times in hot hot water, I was worried about buggies in the pores!

For real, with soap? I thought it would be like the pampered chef stones...... but I guess if we are lining with parchment paper then soap in the porous pot wouldn't matter. Although, is it really necessary to worry about germs if you season it first... wouldn't the heat kill all the germs? If rinse with hot water and bake, would that do it, or do you think the soap is necessary?

Yes I think you'll be right about the germs being killed off - I'm just a Monica and washed and washed till I had raisin fingers. And you must be right about the lining paper too. The thing to bear in mind though, is that I had no idea what I was doing and am very new to cakes. Good points you raise. Can you tell me what these chefs stones are? Sounds interesting.

www.pamperedchef.com

Pampered chef stones are great! I love many of the pampered chef products, but I think the spatulas are my favorite. They are the BEST for getting cookies off of a cookie sheet. The mini one is great for getting the first brownie out of the pan, doesn't mutilate it!

As a Pampered Chef Rep.. I would think that the pots would soak up the soap and flavor the cakes just like it would if you use it on the stoneware... and my biologist husband promises me that any harmful bacteria is killed at 160 degrees...so you wouldn't have to worry about germs. If you season it good enough with the oil... it should clean up nicely with just hot water.