Saturday 24 September 2011

Giant Chocolate Cupcake


I am back from my travels and am really pleased that I’ve managed to get this in for this month’s We Should Cocoa challenge. I was really excited when I first saw the challenge as I love birthdays and I love chocolate so I definitely didn’t want to miss out! It was also my birthday recently but as I was away, I haven’t had a chance to make a cake so this is a birthday cake for myself and for WSC. As the theme is chocolate, I’ve made a giant chocolate cupcake, filled with Spanish chocolate filling and topped with my favourite chocolate buttercream icing. I added some stars on top – why not? And some M&Ms as you just can’t have enough chocolate! This is definitely a choc-a-holics cake and it disappeared really quickly at work.

 making the batter 

 Spanish chocolate that I used for the filling

 fill chocolate cupcake with more chocolate


 add even more chocolate - my piping skills are a little rusty! 

 some stars for celebration

 and just a few M&Ms to finish the look! 

Recipe for chocolate cupcake and chocolate buttercream icing and be found here

13 comments:

  1. looks super cute n lipsmacking..:P
    excellent cliks..
    Tasty Appetite

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  2. wow! Do you think I could claim I "only ate 1 cupcake" if I demolished the whole thing?

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  3. Good lord it's a whopper! I've always wanted to know what those giant cupcake moulds came out like. Yours looks damn fine!

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  4. Welcome home! This is a wonderful addition to our virtual party, sounds so decadent ;0)
    And a very happy birthday to you too!

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  5. Wow, this is a chocaholic's dream! I was never very sure about those cupcake cake moulds but I think you've changed my mind, this looks amazing.

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  6. He he, as you know I fully concur that you can never have enough chocolate. Belated happy birthday and I'm glad you made it to the WSC party too - and with such a magnificent cake. Your piping skills look excellent to me, I've quite envious.

    Hope you had a good holiday - the Spanish chocolate looks interesting.

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  7. What a great way to celebrate! Happy belated birthday!

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  8. What a perfect 1st birthday celebration cake! So, do we get one each?!

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  9. I have just been looking at all your recent posts - do you have a spare room so that I can move in! All that chocolatey deliciousness.

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