Cake recipe says to cook it in a flower pot - help!

[missorinoco]

The recipes and the book give me no futher clues.

Really?
As in a normal ceramic flower pot?

The idea behind it is that the cake will turn out rounded, rather like a Christmas Pudding shape.

It's supposed to be for my little boy's birthday cake if you are wondering why I am planning such a bizarre shaped cake.

TI(hopeful)A

how lovely! anything that combines gardening and cookery is good in my book.

yes it would be a terracotta/ceramic one, not plastic, obv! Terracotta is a great medium for cooking in ( think tagines etc ).I would prob want to use a new not previously used one though.

Cafe near us sells scones in plant pots. They're in those terocotta (spelling ) pots.

Yes, a plastic pot would be messy... I agre re getting a new pot. Off to the garden centre next weekend then!

Yeap I have a recipe that states a terracota plant pot, but then it is iced to look like a pot plant

I did that polar bear's head xmas cake (dome/xmas pud sort of shape) in one of those pyrex bowls.
(You can also do those barbie princessy ones with those bowls).

I've just bought a terracotta pot (albeit for a tomato plant) from Wilkinsons for 49p, so I'd head there!