Decorating
Giant Cupcakes – Tips & Ideas
So I’ve given you two basic recipes for using in your Giant Cupcake Tins but I thought I’d also cover a few quick tips on working with it now.
Split it and fill it!
This photo is showing a cupcake base trimmed down, so it will fit in a chocolate shell.
Giant Cupcake Chocolate Shell
Yes it’s completely chocolate!
How about sitting your Giant Cupcake Cake in this?!
To make a Giant Cupcake base chocolate shell you will need 400g of chocolate, white dark or milk. My photos show a blue chocolate shell as it’s easier to see in the photos – tips of colouring white chocolate are at the end of the post.
Chocolate Giant Cupcake Recipe
Lots of you have requested cake recipes for a giant cupcake tin, so I thought I’d put them on the blog for you all to use. You can pretty much use any cake recipe but how much? I have to admit in the past I’ve just made a big old batch of cake mix, filled up the tin and then used the extra for cupcakes, so you don’t have to you’ll be pleased to hear I’ve worked out quantities for you!
Vanilla Giant Cupcake Recipe
Vanilla Giant Cupcake Recipe!
Ingredients:
375g butter, softened
375g caster sugar
6 eggs, large
2 tsp vanilla extract
375g self-raising flour
3 tbsps milk
Prep your tin – a really good grease in all the folds and shapes and a circle of baking paper in the bottom of the base section.
Easiest Celebration Cake Ever!
This has got to be the quickest easiest celebration cake I’ve ever made. You can put it together in next to no time and makes a brilliant change from cake!
You will need:
Rice Krispie Treats Cakes (click on the link for the quantities)
- Recipes – Rice Krispie Treats Cakes
- Method
Depending on how many tiers of ‘cake’ you want, what size your tins are and how big or small you want to go, make up your cakes following the method here using the relevant quantities for your tin.
Easter Lambs – Creme Egg Animals!
If you remember the Easter chicks from last year you’ll know I have a thing for turning a Creme Eggs into something else for Easter, this year it’s lambs!
You will need:
Creme Egg
Sugarpaste; white, peach/flesh/pink, black plus green and pink for flowers and leaves
Use ready coloured or colour your own using gel paste colours
Pink lustre dust and soft paintbrush
A Bouquet of Biscuits
How about rustling up some of these for Mum this Mother’s Day?
Treat your someone special to a plate full of gorgeous flower biscuits – they’re much easier to do than they look and I know my Mum will love them!
Love Heart Biscuits
You know from my last post I wasn’t going to blog these, but so many of you asked how to do them so here’s the how to…!
You will need:
1 x batch of round biscuits – recipe here
1 x batch of glaze icing – recipe here
Disposable Piping Bags fitted with No.3 Piping Nozzles
(Equipment links to The Pink Whisk Shop)
The icing batch will decorate fully 20 biscuits but make sure you have some spare for practising on first before you go onto the ‘real’ ones!
