Flowerpot Cupcakes

This was the final kitchen activity of the year for the Wednesday night Kid's Club.

• Ready In: 10 mins
• Serves: 1

Ingredients

• 1  unfrosted  chocolate cupcake
• 1  piece  fruit leather (strip)
• 2 -4  brightly coloured  gumdrops
• 4  green  gumdrops
• 2 -4  pretzel sticks

Directions

1. With a fork, fluff up the surface of the cupcake to look like soil.
2. Cut the fruit strip slightly larger than the cupcake base and wrap it around to look like the bottom of a flower pot. Moisten strip if neccessary. Press ends together to secure.
3. Cut another strip slightly larger than the cupcake top and fold in half length wise. Wrap it around to look like the top of a flower pot. Moisten strip if neccessary. Press ends together to secure.
4. Cut thick slices from the centers of gumdrops. With sharp scissors, snip the gum drops into tulip shapes.
5. Trim the green gumdrops to form leaves.
6. Press "tulips" into pretzel stick "stems" and poke into "soil".
7. Arrange the "leaves" at the base of the flowers.