Giant Chocolate Cupcake

1 Hour 15 Minutes Total
24 Servings

This giant chocolate cupcake recipe is perfect for any celebration, with swirls of delicious Betty Crocker™ icing and chocolate fingers as decoration.

Ingredient List

Cake
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 2 boxes Betty Crocker™ Devil's Food Cake Mix
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 240 ml vegetable oil (12tbsp)
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 6 medium free range eggs
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 460 ml water
Topping
  • Small check mark in a circle icon 4 tubs Betty Crocker™ Chocolate Fudge Icing
  • Small check mark in a circle icon Milk and white chocolate fingers
  • Small check mark in a circle icon Edible flowers (optional)

Preparation

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C for fan assisted ovens)/Gas Mark 4. Line 2 muffin tins with
  2. Mix the cake mix, water, oil and eggs in a large bowl. Whisk by hand or electric mixer for 2 to 3 minutes until smooth and creamy. Fold through the 100g crushed cookies.
  3. Bake in the centre of the oven for 18 to 20 minutes or until a rounded knife inserted into the centre of the cupcake comes out clean. Remove cupcakes from tin to cooling rack; cool completely.
  4. Remove 2 tablespoons icing from 1 tub; place in small food-storage bag. Cut off bottom corner of bag. Squeeze 2 small dots of icing onto miniature sandwich cookie; attach 1 sugar eye to each dot. (If using white chocolate drops and icing pen, attach white chocolate drop to each dot of icing flat side up. Use icing pen to make small circle on each drop to create an "eye".) Repeat with remaining miniature cookies.
  5. Spoon the remaining icing into a piping bag with a round nozzle. Pipe icing onto cupcakes. Insert 1 chocolate digestive half on each side of the cupcake to look like bat wings. Place 1 miniature sandwich cookie between chocolate digestive halves for the bat face. Repeat with remaining cupcakes.
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