Giant Cupcakes As Centerpieces
Decorating By HotPink_LipGloss Updated 12 Jan 2013 , 9:51pm by kazita
AHas anyone ever used giant cupcakes as table centerpieces for weddings, parties, baby showers, etc.? How do you cut through the chocolate liner without hot water? I think it's a little unclassy to bring a cup of hot water to dip the knife in at each table...or maybe that's just me. I want to avoid making a huge mess cutting through the liner. Thanks.
no i don't know but this idea fascinates me
hope you can post a picture when you get it all worked out
what chocolate liner?
AI have the silicone giant cupcake pans by Handy Gourmet. Wilton also has a metal one that I'm about to get too. Basically you bake the top and bottom of a huge cupcake and it comes out 3d.
I made a chocolate candy liner for it to go in out of candy melts...and I used the bottom of the cupcake pan as a mold. I learned that on here. I didn't really take pics of that part bc I was trying to make it look like a rose bouquet and not a cupcake. You can see it a little in one of my pics. I am no professional so it doesn't look professional but oh well...it's only the second cake I've ever done.
AHere you can see the liner a little and a regular cupcake to see how giant it is. So far the top part alone has served 14 slices...even tho it doesn't look like it would in person.[IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/2891184/width/200/height/400[/IMG]
AThe best thing is to dip a knife in hot water and cut it. But you can still do it without it but the liner will shatter. It's not that big of a deal as it's worth it for the design. I cut the bottom and top separately to get the most out of it.
AHere's a pic of oh sugar's showing the candy liner.[IMG]http://cakecentral.com/content/type/61/id/2891188/width/200/height/400[/IMG]
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Original message sent by savannahquinn
I don't have an answer to your question but i think it looks GREAT!
ok ok ok i gotcha
add some paramount crystals to your choco or oil to soften up the choco shell
--it will slice better and eat better too--softer on the tooth
and it's beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AThank you for the tips and the compliment! I need to try paramount crystals bc I do lots of chocolate and Oreo molding.
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Original message sent by -K8memphis
for the record, 'shards' of chocolate are never a problem at my table
:D
ACould you just put a dummy in the bottom part and not have to cut through it? If the top alone serves 14, that should be enough cake for the table, right? At most events, the tables only seat 8-10 people.
If using the Wilton Giant Cupcake Pan, Wilton says it has the capacity for 10 cups of batter. This is roughly equivalent to about 2 box mixes. I don't know how large the OP's silicone is compared to the Wilton product. You can get quite a few servings out of two box mixes.
If you only wanted to serve 8 people, you could place the cupcake "top" on a cake circle and just cut 8 wedge servings. You could fill the candy melt "bottom" with candies or mints or any number of surprise goodies. You could even package the surprise goodies in the chocolate "bottom" in tiny, individual cellophane bags.
Here is an excellent thread with photographs of the Wilton Giant Cupcake Pan and a candy melt bottom:
http://www.wilton.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=165721
Here are photos I made of the Wilton "mini" giant cupcake pan liner made with orange candy melts. I was practicing to see how they turned out. Here is a link to the Wilton site for both the mini-Giant cupcake pan and the Giant Cupcake Pan:
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=4018F320-423B-522D-F5ECDA6F3A2ABB5E&killnav=1
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=934954ED-423B-522D-F0F7000C16FC74FC&killnav=1
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Original message sent by Apti
If using the Wilton Giant Cupcake Pan, Wilton says it has the capacity for 10 cups of batter. This is roughly equivalent to about 2 box mixes. I don't know how large the OP's silicone is compared to the Wilton product. You can get quite a few servings out of two box mixes.
If you only wanted to serve 8 people, you could place the cupcake "top" on a cake circle and just cut 8 wedge servings. You could fill the candy melt "bottom" with candies or mints or any number of surprise goodies. You could even package the surprise goodies in the chocolate "bottom" in tiny, individual cellophane bags.
Here is an excellent thread with photographs of the Wilton Giant Cupcake Pan and a candy melt bottom: [I][URL=http://www.wilton.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=165721]http://www.wilton.com/forums/messageview.cfm?catid=8&threadid=165721[/URL][/I]
Here are photos I made of the Wilton "mini" giant cupcake pan liner made with orange candy melts. I was practicing to see how they turned out. Here is a link to the Wilton site for both the mini-Giant cupcake pan and the Giant Cupcake Pan: [URL=http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=4018F320-423B-522D-F5ECDA6F3A2ABB5E&killnav=1]http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=4018F320-423B-522D-F5ECDA6F3A2ABB5E&killnav=1[/URL]
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HotPink~~If you use the bottom chocolate shell as a base for a cake and frosting top, you will need to clean up the top edges of the chocolate shell so it will look nicer and be level.
Here is an excellent way to clean the edges from a youtube video by another CakeCentral member, Shawna McGreevy. Go to the 1 minute 45 second mark in the video and you'll see a 15 second demo of McGreevy melting the top edges of her "cup" by briefly smoothing the top along a warmed cookie sheet.
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Original message sent by -K8memphis
for the record, 'shards' of chocolate are never a problem at my table
:D
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