Do you love working in the greenhouses? Do you love to do Herbology practical groundwork, including cutting, harvesting and repotting plants? Then, you will surely love to eat a plant, that is actually food that you could gobble up along with the edible plant pot.

Here's my recipe for a plant (essentially a sprig of mint or any other leaf or herb you like), potted neatly in a plant pot full of soil (which is essentially a mud cake).

Let's start with gathering our flower pot and preparing it with soil and other supplements.

To begin,

gather your ingredients (serves 1 flower pot): -

All-purpose flour - 2 and 1/4 cups (8 and 1/2 ounces)

Dutch-processed cocoa powder - 1/4 cup (7/8 ounce)

Baking powder - 1 tablespoon (1/2 ounce)

Salt - 1/2 teaspoon

Unsalted butter - 1 and 1/2 cup (12 ounces)

Canola or vegetable oil - 1/2 cup (3 and 1/2 ounces)

Granulated white sugar - 1 cup (7 ounces)

Powdered white sugar - 2 cups (8 ounces)

Eggs - 2, large

Vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon

Buttermilk - 1 cup (8 ounces)

Semi-sweet dark chocolate (melted in a double boiler) - 2 and 1/2 cups (20 ounces)

Black gel food coloring (optional)

Dark chocolate shavings (optional)

Equipment: - Parchment paper

The pottery, crafting the flower pot, and filling in with soil and supplements: - 

In a medium sized bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt, stirring continuously. Set this mixture of dry ingredients aside.

In a large mixing bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter, 1/2 cup canola or vegetable oil, and 1 cup granulated white sugar together, until the mixture becomes creamy. Add the eggs and vanilla extract and stir until evenly mixed. Then, add the buttermilk and the above mixture of dry ingredients, bit by bit, alternately, stirring continuously. Then, pour in 1 and 1/2 cups of melted, semi-sweet dark chocolate, and stir to combine. Add in black gel food coloring to get a rich black soil-like color. You may skip the black gel food coloring if you want a lighter soil. If you are aiming for blacker soils, play with the black gel food coloring to get the shade of black you desire. The resulting mix is your batter and it should be very thick, as the batter of a mud cake is usually very thick.

Lightly grease the sides and bottom of three 8" (20cm) baking pans with canola or vegetable oil such that parchment paper sticks to the pan. Then, line the bottom and sides of the baking pans with parchment paper. Pour the batter into the baking pans, distributing equally, and spreading evenly.

Preheat oven to 350°F / 175°C. Put the baking pans in and bake for 18-22 minutes, until a toothpick or the tine of a fork inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. If it comes out stained by the batter, bake further, checking every 2 minutes, until it comes out clean. Take care to not bake too much, or else the cake will be dry. Once the cake is properly baked, carefully remove it from the oven and set aside for cooling.

Beat 1 cup of butter until soft and creamy. Sift 2 cups of powdered white sugar and add it to the butter, then beat until fully combined and smooth. Pour in 1 cup of melted semi-sweet dark chocolate and stir until creamy. Add black gel food coloring and combine until the color resembles that of the baked cake. You may not need the food coloring in this step, if you did not use it when making the batter. This is your buttercream frosting ready to supplement the soil in your flower pot.

Cut the baked cake into cylindrical slices and layer with the above buttercream frosting. You may shape the cylindrical cake into a solid flower pot (with no cavity) using a knife. Smear an even layer of buttercream frosting on top. Use a spatula to smear on the sides smoothly and evenly. The soil supplements have now been added.

Put the entire thing into the freezer and let it chill for 3 hours. Then, remove from the freezer and bring to room temperature. 

Optional step - Sprinkle dark chocolate shavings on top.

Your flower pot is ready to be used, full of soil, layered with soil supplements.

Now, we plant the little sprig, and it will be ready to go to the feast tables to eat.

Take a small sprig of mint or similar herb that tastes well with chocolate, and try to plant it into the buttercream frosting on your flower pot. You may also core a small hole in the center on the top of your flower pot, then try to plant the sprig of mint. You may use a fork as a spade. The sprig may require some support from a stick of chocolate or a toothpick. Once the sprig is carefully planted, try to even out the soil once again.

There, your little edible plant in an edible flower pot, along with edible soil and supplements, is ready for any feast.

Source : - https://www.alsothecrumbsplease.com/death-by-chocolate-halloween-cake/