JUMBO Cupcakes!

My husband has this thing with cupcakes. Everytime we go into one of the bakeries around town and get a cupcake that costs at least $3, my hubby gripes that they aren't real cupcakes. He says real cupcakes would be at least twice the size. I mean he's really obsessed with this. So, I finally decided to try and make him happy. I went and got this JUMBO cupcake pan.


I baked up my favorite, super secret, chocolate cake recipe. Here's where I kinda messed up. My husband doesn't like chocolate. So, jumbo cupcakes make him happy, but chocolate, notsomuch. Oh well, guess that means more for me! Anyway :), moving on. As far as baking the jumbo ones, I would have thought they would have taken double the time to bake, but not the case! I only increased the baking time by maybe 7 minutes. They did require me watching them much more closely this first go-round. I wanted to make sure they were fully baked on this inside, but didn't want the edges to crisp up. Once they were just right, I pulled them out of the oven and let them cool.


Then I colored some frosting, made some little fondant flowers and voila, here they are. Yummy JUMBO chocolate cupcakes, with buttercream icing.


I also have been wanting to try out a new way to ice the top of the cupcakes and since these cupcakes were so big, I thought I'd give it a try. Using a 1M tip, you start in the center of the cupcake, and swirl the icing around the cupcake, while always leaving the tip close to the cupcake. It ends up looking like a little rose!


I also have to confess, that while my hubby has been wanting these jumbo cupcakes, I haven't really had a reason to make them. But this weekend I did!! My family is getting our family pictures done and I wanted to bring some to my super awesome photographer. She rocks and I just wanted to give her a little something to say THANK YOU. If you need your family pictures done, you should look her up at Jenny Miller Photography. Tomorrow will be our 4th session with her and I can't wait!

xoxo,
Katie