Cupcakes can never be to big!

Cupcakes can never be to big!

Giant cupcake Birthday cake i made for my sisters 15th in April

This was so fun to make, cant wait to have a reason to make another one. But for now ill help you make your own!

Ok so first of you will need one of these kits which can be purchased from many shops such as O-range, dunelm mill , eBay, amazon ect.ect.

• Big top cupcake mould on eBay for just 6.99
• Big top cup cake mould on amazon

Big top giant cupcake kit

How to make this delicious creation;

Giant Cupcake ingredients

This one will give you some left over for a few small cupcakes as well which is a bonus!

For the giant cupcake: 

14oz salted butter, softened
14oz golden or white caster sugar 
6 large eggs, beaten 
14 oz self-raising flour
Vanilla to taste 
3 fl oz milk

For the butter cream: 

4oz unsalted butter, softened 
8oz icing sugar 
Vanilla to taste 

Add few drops of food colouring, optional  

3 tablespoons seedless raspberry jam for filling


Preparation method;
Prep: 45 minutes | Cook: 1 hour 15 minutes 
1.To make the cake, preheat the oven to 170 degrees C / gas mark 3. Brush the two halves of your gian t (2.4 litre) cupcake tin with oil (or cooking spray) and dust with flour. 

2.In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, sugar together until creamy. Gradually beat in the eggs a little at a time, beating well after each addition. Sieve in the self-raising and plain flours and stir in with the milk. 

3.Spoon the mixture into the moulds, filling each half about three-quarters full and hollowing out the centres a little as both cakes will rise quite a lot. Bake for 1 hour 5 minutes - 1 1/2 hours or until a skewer pushed into the centre of each cake comes out clean. 

4.Cool in the mould for about 15 minutes before turning the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool completely. 

5.Trim the tops of the bottom cake level and spread the base with the jam and butter cream. Sandwich the cakes together and spread the top part with the butter cream, and decorate till you go wild.

I would LOVE to see how you decorate your own giant cupcakes !
I hope this helps