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Learn to create a giant cupcake with this particular easy recipe. This straightforward giant cupcake recipe is good and makes a person impressive birthday cake or treat for special events. You just need a huge cupcake mould and you may get this to impressive but simple cake. This recipe makes 1 giant cupcakes and really should serve around 8-10 people. This giant cupcakes is fantastic for parties or special events and constitutes a great birthday cake option. This cake will require around 1hr and ten mins to create, bake and decorate. This impressive giant cupcakes is indeed a showstopper your buddies and family can be really impressed with. Store any leftover cupcake within an airtight container around the kitchen side. Should you decorated with fresh ingredients like cream or berries, you might like to store within the fridge rather but simply keep in mind that cake goes dry if stored within the fridge for too lengthy.
- Makes: 1
- Total time: 1 hr ten mins
- Level of skill: Easy peasy
- Costs: Low as chips
Ingredients
For that giant cupcake:- 450g softened butter
- 450g caster sugar
- 8 large eggs
- 450g self-raising flour
- 4 level teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoon of vanilla
- 3 tablespoons of milk
- Giant cupcake tin
- 250g white-colored fondant icing
- Pink food colouring
- Strawberry jam
- 110g unsalted butter, softened
- 500g icing sugar
- 60ml milk, 70 degrees
- 1tsp vanilla flavoring
- Pink food colouring
Method
- Set the oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas Mark 4 and grease the tin using cake release spray or groundnut oil.
- Cream the butter and sugar and add some vanilla. Beat for around a few minutes. Add one egg at any given time having a third from the sieved flour and baking powder until it's gone adding the milk and beat gradually until it's included.
- Place 1 / 2 of the mix in every side from the tin to around full and bake for 50 mins. Occasions really depend by yourself oven, so start to determine the cake at 50 minutes, then every ten minutes and don't remove in the oven before the cake is springy to touch. This may require 1 hr fifteen minutes.
- Remove in the oven and allow it to awesome for 25 minutes before tipping out. When the cake has overflowed or has risen excessive don’t worry, you are able to trim this having a bread knife or perhaps a cake leveller. It’s simpler to get this done even though it is still within the tin.
- Contain the cooling rack tight over the top tin and switch them to awesome. When the cake is completely awesome (most likely an hour or so or 2) you can begin decorating it.
- Colour and unveil the fondant icing to some inch thick. It needs to be 25cm long and 8cm high. Then make use of a texture pad to include a flower pattern towards the fondant.
- Melt some jam within the microwave and departing the wedding cake within the upside lower position brush over the bottom of the wedding cake. This can help the fondant stick. Put the fondant round the cake and trim the surplus. You are able to fold just a little outrageous (the bottom) so you've a clear edge. Press your finger across the indentations which means you obtain the form of the bottom back. Then turn the wedding cake (not gripping way too hard or else you will squash it) the proper way up.
- Beat the butter, icing sugar, milk and vanilla together inside a bowl until light and fluffy. Place a third from the buttercream in another bowl and add pink food colouring into it. Reserve this for the buttercream roses. Spread jam at the base 1 / 2 of the cupcake, then your icing and sandwich the 2 pieces together.
- Ice the very best with all of those other buttercream inside a design that best suits you. Victoria has covered the wedding cake in buttercream roses and you will discover how you can create them in greater detail using our cake rose decorating video .To produce the 2-tone effect, fill your piping bag track of the cream icing adding the pink on the top. Twist the top bag and match a bowl before you begin to see the pink coming through.
- Top your giant cupcake with sugarcraft butterflies or flowers.
By Victoria Threader
