Big Cakes: Giant Cupcake

Name: Big Cakes: Giant Cupcake
Yield: Serves 10-12
Ingredients: 2 × 125 g packets milk or dark chocolate fingers; large star nozzle; nylon piping bag; 1 × 10 cm cake candle; 20 chocolate-covered coffee beans; 1 × recipe vanilla Buttercream

Preparation info

Serves
10-12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Bake and Decorate

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

Instead of making a batch of cupcakes, why not confuse everyone and make a monster! It is a little wasteful because of the need to shape the coffee cakes, but enjoy sampling as you sculpt them. Cook’s treat!

Ingredients

1 × Coffee and Hazelnut Cake batter

Cake
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/fan 170°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Lightly butter 2 × 15cm diameter, 7cm deep, round tins and line the bases with baking parchment. Pour the batter into the tins and