Giant Cupcake Cake

If you are going to make a giant cupcake cake I have a few tips picked up during my own attempts at this. 

Firstly, you need a giant cupcake pan, and also a product called cake release. These cupcake pans are large and have a reasonably intricate shape, so without the cake release it is very difficult to get them cleanly out of the pan. 

Another tip I can share is that because of the size of the cake it tastes better if you sandwich it with some buttercream icing. If not there is an awful log of cake and not an awful lot of moisture to help to stop it seeming dry. I have also at times cut the bottom section of the cake in half horizontally and added another layer of buttercream in there too, which was delicious. . 

This is the best buttercream icing recipe I have found: Buttercream icing

Here is a great cupcake recipe

For full instructions to guide you through the process of using a giant cupcake pan, please watch the video below which is very helpful. 

Have a look at some of the pictures on this page for fantastic ideas on how to decorate your giant cupcake cake. As a rule you need to go BOLD with a cupcake this size and bright and colorful icing also seems to work really well. Below are just a few of my suggestions:

• As a toadstool. Looks great on a green cake base with mini (cupcake) toadstools all around it. 
• As a giant cupcake decorated in the same way that you would decorate a mini cupcake. 
• On a cupcake stand, with the giant cupcake on the top level and smaller cupcakes below it. 
• With a color theme. Make it all pink, and all sparkly, or all blue and snazzy!
• The giant cupcake on the right has paper around the bottom as a baking cup which looks sensational!
• If you don't have paper you can pipe icing stripes on the bottom half to make it look like a colorful baking cup.