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    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » minor holiday recipes » Earth Day

    Sunflower Brownies and Ice Cream

    Published: Jul 30, '14 · Modified: Jan 4, '20 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Put some sunshine in your life with these adorable Sunflower Brownies and Ice Cream! They are so much fun to make with your kids and will brighten up your day.

    Sunflower Brownies and Ice Cream

    It's no secret, one of the most creative bloggers out there is Beth of Hungry Happenings. So when Beth, asked if I would like to guest post on her blog, I could hardly wait to come up with something to create.  I wanted to keep it simple, yet fun and festive...

    Sunflower Brownies & Ice Cream

    Sunflower Brownies in Ice Cream Filled Pots

    Those who know me, know I can't grow flowers outside but I love to grow the indoor ones that you can eat.

    Just like these sunflower brownies, growing out of ice cream pots.  Maybe I have a green thumb after all...let's get planting!

    supplies for Sunflower Brownies and Ice Cream

    To make it easy, I started with a Duncan Hines dark chocolate fudge brownie mix and used the recipe on the back for cake-like brownies.  Chocolate jimmies for the top of the cupcakes, ice cream to fill the pots and green jimmies to sprinkles on top of the ice cream.

    supplies for flower brownies

    Supplies

    Wilton yellow baking cups.

    Small terra cotta pots.

    Wooden Skewers.

    Yellow and white chevron straws.

    Sunflower Brownies

    Make brownies according to directions.  Pour into cupcake papers and bake.  Top with chocolate ganache and sprinkle with chocolate jimmies.

    how to use pot on flower dessert

    Line the bottom of each terra cotta pot with foil to cover the tiny hole.  Fill with ice cream and insert a wooden skewer.  Top with dark green jimmies.

    how to add leaves to flower dessert

    Any leaf will work, I used those off silk flowers I had on hand.  Remove the green leaf and take apart, slide the green leaf over the straw.

    Sunflower Brownies in Ice Cream Filled Pots

    Here are the three pieces to your dessert.

    Keep the mini terra cotta pots of ice cream (with wooden skewer inserted) in the freezer until you're ready to serve.  Right before serving, slide the straw over the skewer, then top with the cupcake and your sunflower garden is ready to be served!

    summer ice cream treat

    Sunny Side Up!

    Thank you, Beth, for trusting me with entertaining your readers today.  It was great working in my climate-controlled garden, umm, kitchen, creating the Sunflower Brownies & Ice Cream.

    I would love if you wanted to see more of my climate-controlled creations on my blog~

     The Partiologist

    "You are what you eat...so eat something cute!"

    Here are a few of my favorites:

     

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    Show Mother Nature how much you appreciate her by making some of these festive Earth Day Recipes.

    Celebrate our planet by creating some out of this world Earth Day Recipes.

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. Elizabeth M

      August 13, 2014 at 1:45 am

      I had to look at this because I thought there was no way that both ice cream and brownies were in the treat! So cute!

      Reply
    2. Linda Vandermeer

      August 03, 2014 at 8:07 pm

      I was wondering where the ice-cream was, what a fab treat.

      Reply
    3. Sue

      July 31, 2014 at 5:35 am

      I love this treat! Sunflowers are my favorite, especially in brownie form:)

      Reply
    4. Hani Bacova

      July 30, 2014 at 10:01 pm

      KIM, THESE ARE SO ADORABLE. WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!

      Reply
    5. Janine Eshelbrenner

      July 30, 2014 at 3:47 pm

      Adorable! Such a fun treat for summer!

      Reply
    6. Lisa@hooplapalooza

      July 30, 2014 at 3:09 pm

      oh wow i love how easy these are to put together! and you can't really beat brownies and ice cream for summer! great job as always Kim 🙂

      Reply
    7. Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff

      July 30, 2014 at 2:15 pm

      You had me at brownies and ice cream ... then you made it absolutely adorable!!!

      Reply
    8. Chichi Dodoo

      July 30, 2014 at 8:33 am

      This is so cute and creative. Love it

      Reply

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