Jumbo Cupcake Cake- 1st Birthday Celebration

For my daughter's first birthday I could not skimp... full-time job and all. I had to do something fabulous and cute... but most of all, extra special. The theme of the birthday party was simply a cupcake. And while having cupcakes at the party was a given, we needed something special.... a jumbo cupcake.

The bottom cake as a 10" vanilla cake with Italian meringue buttercream. The jumbo cupcake was chocolate chocolate chip cake with Italian meringue buttercream. The letters and cherry were fondant. The cupcake liner was tinted white chocolate (I LOVED how it turned out) and the jumbo sprinkles were store-bought. The jumbo cupcake is SO my favorite thing to make right now.

Here is the inside of that fabulous giant jumbo cupcake. Lots of chocolate cake and icing!

I also made a 4" vanilla smash cake, also iced in Italian meringue buttercream. It had a half cupcake on top that also had a tinted chocolate liner and it's own real cherry. All ready for little fingers to dig in!

And lastly, we had 18 vanilla cupcakes iced in buttercream with sprinkles and cherries. Yum!

Here's our birthday girl! She opted out of the smash and went for a big bite of the cake instead! Happy Birthday Keyah!