Blooming Cupcake Cake

What's better than a cupcake? A giant cupcake! Just in time for your Easter and spring celebrations, this Blooming Cupcake Cake will be the hit of your party.

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

2 boxes Favorite pound cake recipe or mix
Powdered sugar

Tools
Open Star Cake Decorating Tip 1M
Dimensions Giant Cupcake Pan
Decorating Bags, 16-Inch Disposable Piping Bags, 12-Count
White Sugar Pearl Sprinkles, 4.8 oz.
Decorator Preferred 11 Inch Straight Spatula
Bright Jumbo Confetti Sprinkles
Cake Release Pan Non-Stick Spray Coating, 8 fl. oz
Color Right Performance Food Coloring Set
Recipe Right Non-Stick Cooling Grid, 16 x 10-Inch
White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb.
Pastry Brush
Aluminum foil
Knife

Instructions

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Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Make pound cake according to recipe directions. This pan works best with pound cake mixes or recipes; however you can use regular cake mix by adding 2 packages of instant pudding mix, 8 eggs, 2 cups of water and 2/3 cup of vegetable oil to make it sturdier. Prepare your giant cupcake pan with Cake Release, using a pastry brush to make sure pan is covered completely.
Pour 2 ½ cups of batter for the top of the cupcake and 3 ½ cups of batter for the bottom. Bake cake for 1 hour, tenting the top portion of the cupcake with foil halfway through to keep it from becoming overdone.
Once baked, let cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and place on cooling grid to cool completely. Level cakes using a knife. A great tip for leveling the top portion of the cupcake is to return it to the pan and use it as a guide as you cut.
Add powdered sugar to 4 1/2 cups of icing until it reaches piping consistency. Tint icing teal with Color Right Performance System colors. Bright and Bold Teal – 16 drops of blue and 4 drops of yellow.
Use icing to adhere top and bottom portions of the cupcake.
Prepare decorating bag with tip 1M, fill with icing. Pipe rosettes, completely covering the top. If there are open spaces between some of the rosettes, pipe stars in between.
Randomly scatter jumbo confetti sprinkles and white sugar pearls on top.