{"id":1253,"date":"2014-02-18T19:39:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2016-04-06T23:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T23:46:38","slug":"giant-cupcake-girl-birthday-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/giant-cupcake-girl-birthday-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Cupcake &#8211; Baby Girl Birthday Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking is not really my thing &#8211; a little of this, a little of that usually turns out to be a big mess whenever I attempt it.\u00a0 But baking &#8211; now that&#8217;s a different story.\u00a0 I like the exact measurements and timing required of baking.\u00a0 It&#8217;s either right or its burnt, and I enjoy working within a set of parameters.\u00a0 And when sugar is involved &#8211; I&#8217;m all in.<\/p>\n<p>I made this cake for my daughter Maddie&#8217;s 2nd birthday party, and I&#8217;m pretty pleased with the way it turned out!\u00a0 I have my cake-baking pretty well-established so that I can get a dense yet moist (I hate that word) cake that has a pretty good structure and won&#8217;t collapse under a big pile of buttercream.\u00a0 The frosting I used this time was Raspberry Cream Cheese frosting for the top and Chocolate Buttercream on the bottom.\u00a0 With some Sixlets pearls to hide some of the thin spots &#8211; it ended up looking as good as it tasted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/giant-cupcake-girl-birthday-cake\/dsc_6056_web\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1254\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/giant-cupcake-girl-birthday-cake\/dsc_6056_web\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_6056_WEB.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"904,962\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;www.shotola.com&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1392558230&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;86&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"DSC_6056_WEB\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Photos of the giant cupcake birthday cake that I made for my baby girl&amp;#8217;s birthday party.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_6056_WEB-470x500.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_6056_WEB.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1254\" alt=\"Giant Cupcake Birthday Cake\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_6056_WEB.jpg\" width=\"904\" height=\"962\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_6056_WEB.jpg 904w, https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_6056_WEB-470x500.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/DSC_6056_WEB-768x817.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cooking is not really my thing &#8211; a little of this, a little of that usually turns out to be a big mess whenever I attempt it.\u00a0 But baking &#8211; now that&#8217;s a different story.\u00a0 I like the exact measurements and timing required of baking.\u00a0 It&#8217;s either right or its burnt, and I enjoy working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[90,91],"class_list":{"0":"post-1253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-personal","7":"tag-giant-cupcake","8":"tag-pink-cupcake","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3jeT6-kd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5217,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/5217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotola.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}