June 22, 2011

✥Cake Pots for Self Reliance {Visiting Teaching}✥

This post is a quickie I wanted to get out before the stinkin' month is over!
But sorry Ladies, I just got my visiting teaching done today! 
This month's message is on Self Reliance.
I had a thought that gardening is a HUGE part of self reliance. But instead of giving the girls a potted plant, I thought little cakes with icing and crumbled cookies that look like dirt would be perfect and maybe give a seed packet, too.
Here's what you wanna do to make the cake pots:
(1) Clean the pots and let them air dry
(2) Mix up the cake batter
(3) Cut parchment paper into circles and cover the hole at the bottom of the pot




(4) Oil the inside of the pots
(5) Cook for 40 to 45 minutes-they needed that long { My advice is to rotate the pots half way through. They wanted to cook better on the outsides of the pots. }
 

(6) Throw chocolate cookies in the food processor
(7) Ice the cakes one at a time once they are cooled
(8) Immediately sprinkle the chocolate crumbs on the iced cakes




Once you've done all that you can move onto the seed packets. I was a total copycat and just googled for one. You can check out this awesome one from Kristin called SeeMeVT. I didn't do a thing to it, just printed it out on green paper. Kristin did an awesome job and the scripture she chose was the same one for this month's lesson, so it was perfect!!

 For my seed packets I decided sprinkles would be the perfect "seed."
I love how this project all came together and the girls loved it too!


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