Giant Cupcakes

[jojo2910]

My OH got me a giant cupcake mould for my birthday. The one I have should be used with a packet mix (uck), so I am looking on the internet for a recipe/timings etc.

I am hoping it'll be similar to a victoria sponge.

I don't suppose anyone has experience of making these? and have tips

[pepper]

I just got one of these too. Used it for the first time today. I used a recipie from delia online for a chocolate almond cake. I doubled the recipie and made the top half of the cup cake with white chocolate and the bottom half with the recipe as it is. This was enough to fill both halves and i got six small cup cakes too. The one i have is the silicon one. I have just finished decorating mine, it is for an 80th birthday tomorrow. I cooked it at gas 4 and it took 1h 20mins. It will need quite a large amount of mixture to fill both.

[pepper]

my first giant cup cake

[binley100]

mmmmmmmmmm..........I like it looks yummy

[Two_Sheds]

My friend makes a lot of these for birthdays, weddings etc. I find them too sickly

[jojo2910]

[ATTACH]17340[/ATTACH] my first giant cup cake

Looks amazing and the recipe sounds yummy. I am sure I only got it so that I can make lots more cake for the OH and maybe because I wasn't allowed a giant cupcake for the wedding.

[Hilary B]

One of my recipe books gives quantities for tins of unusual shape, based on capacity in pints. The Victoria Sponge recipe is a normal 1 egg, 2oz marge, 2oz caster sugar, 2oz SR flour, per pint of capacity.
I've used this for cakes in roasting tins up to 6 pint capacity.
Just see how many pints of water you can get in the tin!