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GIANT Cupcake - How Big ????
 One of the new silicone bakeware moulds we've just got in is for a GIANT Cupcake. I've seen jumbo / giant cupcakes before such as the Big Top Cupcakes and Wilton's version - but this is even bigger still - by rather a lot ! The Big Top Giant Cupcakes claim to be 25x bigger than a normal cuopcake. Well...... if a standard muffin mix makes 10 > 12 cupcakes, and it takes 2.1/2 batches of mix to fill one side and 1.1/2 batches to fill the other - thats 5 x 10 > 12 .... So ours is FIFTY to SIXTY times the size of those. Yikes.  When I made the one photographed, I did not fill the entire base mould. I used two batches of mix for the base and 1.1/2 for the top. The base was definately FAR smaller than it should have been .... which makes my photos of the cupcake a little out of true proportion. Ok - so I'm being seriously critical here. The photo below shows how much mix I put in the base. I used my gran's adapted banana loaf recipe for the base as it's dense and moist. Refrigerated, it'll keep for days. I knew this was a seriously big cake and was initially worried that the weight of the top half of the cake plus icing would perhaps collapse the base ! Actually - I need not have worried - it stood up pretty well.  With both sides properly filled, this cake would stand 11" / 230mm high UN-ICED. That's a pretty towering big cupcake ! With all the mix in the mould, you need to be really careful when moving as the top part isn't so stable as it has such a small foot to stand on. I think maybe we've made this just a little big ! The top part of the cupcake could do with a bit more support somehow at the bottom.... but that's me being really critical  For the top half of the cake, I used a vanilla type sponge which rises a lot more.  Here are the base and the top. after they have been trimmed on the underside. The top of the giant cupcake has still to be trimmed.  Here is the base, now with some buttercream icing - ready for the top to go on. The banana cake gave it a nice dark outer. Sara had come over to play and help me ice this up.  Sarah is applying the first layer of buttercream here. We're not too bothered about the lines on the top part. In our opinion, they're a neccessity to hold on the buttercream and stop it slipping off - since you will need a lot of buttercream !  Here it is - ready for final decoration. I weighed the plate first and then the finished cake on the plate so we could get a weight of the cake only. The final giant cupcake weight was 4.2kg - 9.25lb ! We took it with Oliver to nursery for the children and staff to share since it was Sports Day. I'll get the photos and more info on the Giant Jumbo XL cupcake mould online on our website tonight. Have a fun weekend ! Sarah-Jane, ww.siliconemoulds.com - biggest UK silicone cookware cook shop. Shipping Worldwide  related searches : Giant
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