This is a test.  This station is conducting a test of the Murray Household Bakery.  This is only a test.

I’m getting psyched for Ashley’s first birthday!  It’s right around the corner and there is so much to do!  My lists are multiplying!  I’m going with a cupcake theme and will be making a giant cupcake for her smash cake.  I love to bake, so this is going to be a lot of fun for me.  Seeing as I have never made a giant cupcake before, I thought I should do a couple test runs in my new Giant Cupcake Pan.  Glad I did, because I learned several things from this test run.  The main thing being that I need to use more batter!  I only used one box of cake mix, and it didn’t fill the pan completely.  I ended up having to do a lot of trimming to get the cake to fit together (the top and bottom weren’t even).  So next time I will use about one and a half boxes of mix.  However, I’ll wait a couple weeks before subjecting Van to Round 2

It was fun making it though!  I also made a candy liner (used Wilton Candy Melts) so it looks like the cupcake is sitting in a paper liner.  Here are a few pictures of my first giant cupcake.  For this one, I used yellow cake and chocolate icing.  For Ashley’s “real” cake, I’m planning on using either chocolate or yellow cake, but with cream cheese or vanilla icing.  The lighter color icing would look pretty with the pink liner.  And I’m going to decorate it with jumbo confetti sprinkles and a large single pink candle.