What's better than a cupcake!? A GIANT cupcake obviously!

So with another occasion at work I found myself back in the kitchen. This time baking a giant cupcake, there are a multitude of moulds available, both tin and silicon. Mine is a silicon one. 

Filling the mould with one and a half times my standard cupcake mix and popping in the oven at gas mark four for about 50-60 minutes. 

Remove from oven and allow to cool before removing from mould. 

I then thought I'd add an extra layer to my cake by painting melted dark chocolate in the base mould to creat a giant cupcake case. 

This took two layers to make and sometime to set in the fridge. 

And voila the cake sits comfortably inside. Then I used chocolate butter cream to sandwich the layers together and covered in vanilla butter cream. 

It was at this point that I realised that the cake was now too big for me to transport easily to work, but luckily I found a suitable cardboard box. Here's hoping yours won't create such a problem. 

Covering with sprinkles to finish. Then the fun part. Sawing through the chocolate case!! 

Enjoy

Happy Baking

Muffin Minx

As Happy as a Pig in.....

Well we've all seen it doing the rounds, the picture of that amazing cake, with the KitKats around the outside and the little pink piggies swimming in the chocolate mud.

Well I couldn't resist it any longer and so I had to give it a go myself, and what better excuse than a colleagues birthday and my cake Thursday at work (every Thursday we take it in turns to bring in cake, amazing idea in principle, but not great for waistlines!)

So having looked at a multitude of pictures of this cake, I decided that unlike the majority I would go against a chocolate cake hidden under a chocolate exterior, there is after all such a thing as "too much" well apparently anyway.

So to make the sponge, I used one and a half times my standard cupcake mixture and baked at gas mark 4 for 40 minutes.

Once cooled I sandwiched these together with butter cream.

I then used chocolate butter cream to secure the KitKats around the outside of the cake, and tied a ribbon round them to keep them in place. Then place in the fridge to set while you do the next step.

Melt 200g Chocolate into 200g Double Cream in  boil over a saucepan of boiling water, once these have mixed, leave to cool not too runny. Then you can pour the mixture onto the top of the cake.

Then place in the fridge to set a little while you make the pigs.

Use fondant icing to make your little piggies. You can buy the perfect pink for it, saving the hassle of colouring white.

Once the chocolate mixture has nearly set, then you can add your piggies to the cake.

Then leave in the fridge to set completely. I left mine over night, and then had the hard task of ensuring that it survived my hour commute to the office!

Then enjoy!!! 

 

Delicious!!!

Happy Baking.

Muffin Minx