So really only the top of it was cake? That's a let down. I am also simultaneously amused and let down by the fake muffin paper.

Looking at the photo above and knowing that only the top bit was real cake, it looks like a bit of a cheat! I'm glad you managed to get some, though it's a shame so much was wasted.

That's a really cute looking cupcake. Though I have to agree, the styrafoam definetely feels like cheating.

What, the whole bottom part wasn't even cake? I feel cheated.

I know that a true giant cupcake would require some serious structural engineering, but surely that is part of what makes a giant cupcake such a worthy challenge.

I am glad you got to eat some before it went stale in the sun.

I think one would have to bake it in pieces and then assemble it. That still seems like a bit of a cheat, though, because it's just cake that's been assembled into the shape of a cupcake, rather than cake that's been baked in a paper cup in the first place.

It might be possible to do it in one piece with a very big microwave oven, I suppose (or microwave emitters inside the cupcake?). But with something that huge, could the bottom actually get light and fluffy, or would the weight of all the stuff on top compress it into a sort of sedimentary rock-cake? How much could one compensate by whipping extra air into the mix? And, most importantly, how do we get funding to research this?

The cupcake is a lie!

And just because something is shaped like a cupcake doesn't make it a cupcake, as many a child has found out after encountering the sort made of soap and wax and so on. That's no cupcake.

I wonder what the world's largest possible cupcake size really would be for a REAL non-cheating cupcake.