Pretty pearly cake....

 

I made this for my almost one year old grandaughter.

 

Isn't it pretty?

 

It's not a small cupcake, although you can't really tell from the photo.

 

It's about the size of a basketball. Huge. Well, huge for a cupcake.

 

It's baked in two halves of a really odd looking tin that looks like a pedestal and a Madonna style bra cup...

 

http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=4018F320-423B-522D-F5ECDA6F3A2ABB5E

 

....but in fact you bake the top and bottom of the 'cupcake', join them with filling of some sort, and ice the top dome to your liking.

 

My daughter-in-law chose this pretty shade of lilac, which I then dusted with edible pearl dust for shimmer. A few lilac and white sprinkles, some supermarket bought sugar flowers and we've got one sweet cake.

 

These cakes retail for around $70 here, and for around the same amount, I've now got the tin, and the know-how to make as many giant cupcakes as I like. The actual cake cost less than $10 to make.

 

Someone tried to tell me that cupcake fever is over, and that it's a dying trend. Well try telling that to a one year old. Or a fourteen year old really.

 

This cake was a hit, and I now have two orders for giant cupcakes for other friends of my daughter-in-law.

 

I'd say a success....yes?

 

...Mimi...