Fourth Anniversary - Flower Dessert!

Every year, when my anniversary rolls around, I do my duty and look up what I’m supposed to get for my husband. The first years were just a bit odd – paper, leather, cotton – but I quickly came up with some creative ideas. This fourth year, however, had me stumped. Flowers. I couldn’t just go with the obvious, so it took me quite some time to figure out a solution.

My husband does not like “stuff,” therefore I couldn’t get him anything permanent that would just sit around the house. However, he does like dessert (definitely doesn’t stay around the house for a long time). So lo and behold, I decided to find a recipe for a dessert that had flowers involved J I can’t wait to share the “Anniversary Flower Dessert” with you!

Prep Time: 30 minutes
Servings: 4

Ingredients:

4 pieces of Pound cake

½ gallon ice cream

½ package of oreo cookies

1 package of gummy worms

Other Things you’ll need:

Small flower pots, coffee mugs or

4 Straws

Fresh cut flowers

1. Cut the pound cake into rounds to fit in the bottom of your container. Make the pound cake the bottom layer in the container. Lightly press to make sure it is all the way down.

I took the extra pieces and put them in the bottom of the mug for me :) *If you use a flower pot, you can line it with aluminum foil if you wish!

2. Insert straw into the middle of the pound cake and cut off 1/2 inch from the top

3. Now grab your favorite ice cream, let it soften on the counter or put it in the microwave for 20 seconds, and spoon it into the container. Work around the straw until it almost reaches the top of the straw. Make sure to hide a worm or 2 in the ice cream with it's head peaking out!

5. Put the oreo cookies in the food processor until the look like dirt! You can also crush them in a ziploc bag for a low tech solution. Spoon the dirt (lots of it!) over the ice cream making sure not to plug up the straw hole. Now put it back in the freezer to re-harden the ice cream!

6. When you are ready to serve - place the flower in the straw and then cover the top of the straw with dirt so it isn't visible. Ready to serve :)

Enjoy! I know we did ~ Love you honey!