Simple choc chip cupcakes + fancy cupcake stand = easy kid’s birthday cake solution!

It was my son’s birthday recently and I spent quite a while wondering what cake to make him. Last year I spent hours make a cake in the shape of a car. Like this:

This year I decided to go for a time-saving option. Instead of trying to make some sort of cake sculpture, I searched for a nice cupcake stand and made simple cupcakes to fill it. My son loves rockets and an internet search turned up this set which includes the cupcake stand, 24 rocket cupcake cake toppers and 24 starry cupcake cases.

Putting the stand together is easy. The rigid cardboard pieces just slot together and the finished effect is great.

Now onto the bit where I made cake! This is a basic sponge recipe (which will probably be familiar to many of you) with some milk chocolate chips thrown into the mix.
Ingredients (these amounts will make 12 cupcakes. I doubled up this mix to make 24)
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