My giant cupcake is a disaster

[VivaLeBeaver]

Cooked it, it looked cooked. Let it cool, levelled the top off with a knife and its bloody hollow in the middle. Like a big bloody polo.

I made some little cupcakes at teh same time so I've stuffed the hole with bits of cupcakes. Am going to put buttercream over it and then put the lid on and more buttercream.

But when I cut it the whole thing's going to fall to bits isn't it?

Put some jam and buttercream mixed in with the cake filling in the middle and it will stick together. Or you could fill with fresh fruit and pretend the hole was meant to be there? It doesn't really matter what it looks like when it's dished up. I'm, sure it will look good once you've stuck the lid back on and covered with icing.

well yes

why didn't you push a skewer through to see if it was cooked? (I know stupid question after the fact)

No, it will be fine. Giant cupcakes can be held together with buttercream and faith.

DD hates jam and frsh fruit and its her birtday cake so thats out the question. Will squidge buttercream into the hole as well to help it all stick together - thanks.

I did think about doing hte skewer thing and normally do but it just looked and sounded so cooked. I did it for longer than the recipe said as well.

fill it with lemon curd?

Giant cup cakes need to be cooked at a lower temperature and for longer as they're so deep. I had a falling apart cake recently and shoved a cake tin over the top while it cooled - it takes longer to cool but everything seems to meld together.

There was nothing there to meld together but am really hoping that buttercream and squashed up little cupcakes will sort it.

I thought if everything was warm enough then the cupcakes would stick to the big cake. If not, then make it a feature - like an Easter egg with mini eggs in. Are you going to ice it?

yes crumb up the cupcakes and mix with buttercream or chocolate frosting - put in the middle and all over the top

will be delicious

(I'd personally buy the betty crocker fudge mix one it holds together better than home-made - I've made little lollipops out of cake fails before)

I'm close to smacking DH. He just said to me, totally seriously "did your mum not teach you cooking at home when you were little".

I've told him how insulted I am and he said "well you seem to be struggling with everything".

Don't know why I fucking bother.

Did his mother not teach him manners? As he is so perfect he can whip another cake up.

You bother because you're teaching your daughter that sometimes things don't go to plan so you have to be able to put them back together.

Hope you don't feel too gloomy.

I would send DH with a flea in his ear and tell him to get a Giant pink French Fancy Cake and pass it off as my own!

Well I've stuck the cake together with icing. Seemed OK.

wAs just about to ice the top of the cake and DD has kicked off becuase she wants pink icing. I'm letting DH take over now. He can make some new bloody pink icing.

Oh, leave them to it. have this and have a slice of perfect cake when DH has finished it.

You know you can make a blinding cake when you don't have a roomful of critics around you.

I make really good cakes, just not giant cupcakes or fancy birthday cakes such as the fairy toadstool that collapsed one year. Though the second attempt was good.

But I can make excellent sponge cakes, drizzle cakes, fruit cakes, other types of cakes that aren't an odd shape.

I believe you. Shaped cakes are a pain to cook. I hope that you usually get more support than you have had today at home.

Just to let you all know it was perfect! You would never have known that it had other cake bits mashed into the middle!.

Brilliant! I'm sure none of us had any doubts - filling a cake with cake is never a bad thing. Hope DH has taken some of his words back.

I've just made a coffee and I now really, really want a slice of cake

I'm so glad it was ok. Later on Sunday I took my banana cake out of the oven turned it out and virtually half the cake fell off!

I've done exactly the same with a bannana cake. Was many years ago but I scooped it all up, back in the tin and back in the oven. It was fine!