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GIANT CUPCAKE
300 g self-raising flour
200 g caster sugar
100 g soft light brown sugar
300 g margarine or butter
6 eggs beaten
60 g cocoa powder
100 g Greek yogurt
1 regular packet of chocolate balls (Maltesers) roughly crushed
For the buttercream
300 g unsalted butter softened
600 g icing sugar
2 tablespoons drinking chocolate
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
16 chocolate balls (Maltesers) crushed
To decorate
Various sweets of your choice
Chocolate fingers
1
Preheat the oven to 170C/Gas4; grease a giant cupcake tin with sunflower oil
2
Beat together until combined the flour, sugars, butter and beaten eggs; add the cocoa powder and beat until combined; fold in the yogurt and crushed Maltesers using a large metal spoon
3
Pour the batter into the prepared tin halves and bake on the middle shelf of the preheated oven for about 1 ½ hours or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cakes comes out clean; leave to cool in the tin for 10 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack and cool completely
4
To make the buttercream, beat the butter, icing sugar, drinking chocolate and cocoa powder together until light and fluffy
5
Sandwich the two cake halves together with a third of the buttercream and the crushed Maltesers; spread a thin layer around the sides of the base of the cake and stick the chocolate fingers; spread the remaining buttercream over the top half of the cake and decorate with the sweets