Bake dates and giant cupcakes.

My friend Elicia bakes the most amazing treats with insanely elaborate icing and delicious flavors. I've been staying at her house the past few weeks, and so a few nights ago we had a spontaneous baking party.

I think naturally when you get two baking nuts together it will never be a case of baking a simple cake, and this was no exception. She happens to have a GIANT cake-sized cupcake mould, and so we decided to bake in that.

I haven't really used silicone bakeware before, but it turned out quite well. This particular mould was baked in two parts, and then iced together.

Thanks to a Nigella chocolate cake recipe (which was oddly simple - put all of these things in the blender and hit start...?) we ended up with this beaut of a cupcake - chocolate, with strawberry buttercream frosting.

xCB