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Gallery Sunflower Cupcake Cake Recipe Summary prep: 1 hr total: 1 hr 45 mins Servings: 25 Yield: Makes one 5-inch cake and about 75 mini cupcakes

Ingredients Ingredient Checklist 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan 3 cups cake flour (not self-rising) 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon baking soda Coarse salt 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan 2 1/4 cups sugar 6 large eggs, room temperature 2 cups low-fat buttermilk, room temperature 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract Easy Buttercream 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder Gel-paste food coloring 3/4 cup blackberries or blueberries

Gallery Sunflower Cupcake Cake

Recipe Summary prep: 1 hr total: 1 hr 45 mins Servings: 25 Yield: Makes one 5-inch cake and about 75 mini cupcakes

Sunflower Cupcake Cake     

Sunflower Cupcake Cake

Sunflower Cupcake Cake

Recipe Summary prep: 1 hr total: 1 hr 45 mins Servings: 25 Yield: Makes one 5-inch cake and about 75 mini cupcakes

Recipe Summary

prep: 1 hr total: 1 hr 45 mins

Servings: 25 Yield: Makes one 5-inch cake and about 75 mini cupcakes

prep: 1 hr

total: 1 hr 45 mins

prep:

1 hr

total:

1 hr 45 mins

Servings: 25

Yield: Makes one 5-inch cake and about 75 mini cupcakes

25

Makes one 5-inch cake and about 75 mini cupcakes

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan 3 cups cake flour (not self-rising) 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder 3/4 teaspoon baking soda Coarse salt 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature, plus more for pan 2 1/4 cups sugar 6 large eggs, room temperature 2 cups low-fat buttermilk, room temperature 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract Easy Buttercream 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder Gel-paste food coloring 3/4 cup blackberries or blueberries

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift flours, baking powder, baking soda, and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt into a bowl.

Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Reduce speed to medium, and add eggs, 1 at a time. Reduce speed to low, and gradually add flour mixture, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour. Beat in vanilla.

Butter a 5-inch tart pan with a removable bottom, dust with all-purpose flour, and tap out excess. Line mini-muffin tins with mini baking cups (you’ll need 75 cupcakes total).

Fill tart pan halfway with batter (about 1/2 cup), then fill each baking cup halfway with batter (a generous tablespoon each). Bake until tops spring back when lightly touched, about 12 minutes for the cupcakes and 14 minutes for the cake. Transfer pans to wire racks, and let cake and cupcakes cool completely.

Transfer 1/4 cup buttercream to a bowl, and stir in cocoa powder. Divide remaining buttercream among 3 bowls, and tint each batch a different shade of yellow or orange with gel-paste food coloring. Frost tops of cupcakes using the 3 colors. Frost top of cake with chocolate buttercream. Arrange berries over top of cake to cover and create “seeds.” Arrange cupcakes around cake to create “petals,” forming a sunflower shape.

Reviews (5)

 Add Rating & Review     71 Ratings   5 star values:        13    4 star values:        16    3 star values:        23    2 star values:        14    1 star values:        5        

Reviews (5)

Add Rating & Review     71 Ratings   5 star values:        13    4 star values:        16    3 star values:        23    2 star values:        14    1 star values:        5       

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71 Ratings 5 star values: 13 4 star values: 16 3 star values: 23 2 star values: 14 1 star values: 5

71 Ratings 5 star values: 13 4 star values: 16 3 star values: 23 2 star values: 14 1 star values: 5

71 Ratings 5 star values: 13 4 star values: 16 3 star values: 23 2 star values: 14 1 star values: 5

  • 5 star values: 13 4 star values: 16 3 star values: 23 2 star values: 14 1 star values: 5

    Martha Stewart Member     Rating: 5 stars       05/26/2018   I would give this 11 Stars! Sunflowers are my favorite!! Blackberries are also a favorite!!! Psst...my B'day is March 10th. Thank you for sharing this....Beautiful....Creative...Masterpiece!! I am taking a picture to send out, next Feb., maybe someone will get the hint!!raf  
    
    Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       05/27/2013   You would need a tray that is at least 19-20" wide. The center cake is 5" and the mini cupcakes are 1-3/4". They didn't use a tray in the photo and that's probably why.  
    
    Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       04/19/2013   This is not a review but a question. Does anyone know how large this sunflower is? I am trying to figure out if I have a pan/plate large enough to put it on. Thanks.  
    
    Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       03/10/2013   for the mini muffin pans is it the 1 inch or the 3 quater one those are tiny tiny cupcakes.-  
    
    Martha Stewart Member     Rating: Unrated       07/28/2012   "cupcake cake" sounds like a typo....  
    

    Martha Stewart Member

    Rating: 5 stars 05/26/2018

I would give this 11 Stars! Sunflowers are my favorite!! Blackberries are also a favorite!!! Psst…my B’day is March 10th. Thank you for sharing this….Beautiful….Creative…Masterpiece!! I am taking a picture to send out, next Feb., maybe someone will get the hint!!raf

Rating: 5 stars

Rating: Unrated 05/27/2013

You would need a tray that is at least 19-20" wide. The center cake is 5" and the mini cupcakes are 1-3/4". They didn’t use a tray in the photo and that’s probably why.

Rating: Unrated

Rating: Unrated 04/19/2013

This is not a review but a question. Does anyone know how large this sunflower is? I am trying to figure out if I have a pan/plate large enough to put it on. Thanks.

Rating: Unrated 03/10/2013

for the mini muffin pans is it the 1 inch or the 3 quater one those are tiny tiny cupcakes.-

Rating: Unrated 07/28/2012

“cupcake cake” sounds like a typo….

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