Baking No Fail Muffins & Cupcakes With The Proper Baking Gear

Rule 1: Smaller Or Regular Size Is Better Than Novelty & Uniquely Shaped Size

 

If you have an interest in buying some silicone baking molds, or if you'd like to be better at utilising the ones you have, keep these pointers and tricks under consideration. We have discovered that the smaller and regular sized silicone muffin molds do bake the most perfect muffins and cupcakes. If you purchase anything, we'd endorse selecting these.

 

If you only buy one sort of silicone baking cups, get the ordinary, cupcake-sized ones. If you are pleased to get 2 different types, we heartily advocate the minimuffin cups. Because silicone molds are so flexible and cheap, there are a large amount of specially-shaped like stars, angles, and many other forms that one can buy. While they are lovable, we suggest keeping away from them and only use the original muffin cup and cupcake cup forms because they work best.

 

In the name of viability, we suggest going with only 1 sizeable baking mould or a matching set made up of multiple baking molds that will accommodate a full recipe. It may be displeasing to realise this, but novelty and uniquely formed silicone baking molds are most of the time just an impulse buy. If you do finish up getting two of novelty molds, a technique to make a full recipe's worth of cake or some other bread-like concotion is to assemble a set of different baking molds, or to have additional silicone baking cups available to make little muffins or cupcakes with the batter that does not fit into your novelty formed silicone baking mould. It's sweet to have these additional nibbles available, regardless of whether they are not specifically formed, and make for fun leftover treats.

 

Rule 2: Grease Larger Pans

 

Like we mentioned silicone baking molds are additional convenient because they do not generally need greasing. Still, some baking molds, particularly the bigger ones, still need buttering, greasing and flouring. Yes, it is a bother, but it creates a difference, particularly because cakes baked in bigger silicone baking molds are at a higher chance of cracking in the elastic molds than they'd in metal pans. Flouring and greasing pans can be awe-inspiring though- one thing we do is substitute cocoa powder for flour when we are baking chocolate cakes. It makes a contribution to a better exterior appearance and is additional fun to lick out of an emptied pan.

 

While only bigger pans truly need greasing, it's simpler to clean smaller silicone muffin cups when they have been greased. Completely flouring and greasing these cups isn't obligatory, but you could consider spraying the molds with stain resistant cooking spray.

 

Alternately, you can keep them completely clean by putting paper baking cups within them and just utilising the silicone cups for structure.

 

Cleaning bigger silicone baking pans is pretty straightforward, but cleaning the littler ones, particularly the minimuffin cups, is tougher, particularly because there are so very many of them.

 

The most effective way we get round to washing these is to right away throw the empty cups into warm, soapy water, let them soak, rub the crumbs out of them, and then wash them and let them dry.

 

After they are dry, we may give the cups an extra wipe with a humid fabric, particularly if I have made tasty muffins in them, because they are likelier to harbour some leftover grease.

 

Silicone baking molds are good for more than making cakes and muffins. So do not simply make candy with your cups, but use them for all they are worth. They are perfect to serve pudding, tiramisu, creams, souflés and many other creamy desserts. We also use them to store yogurt, sauces and other liquid ingredients that we need on a daily basis. Ice creams or parfaits make a perfect match with these cute molds, too.

 

As well as baking both sweet treats and savoury nibbles in silicone baking cups, we suggest using them ( again, typically the littler ones ) for more than baking. They make great tiny serving cups for parties.

 

You can put tiny nibbles in them like jellybeans, nuts, and little candies, and because they come in such lovable shapes and colours, they can truly fancy-up a party platter. The additional benefit here is that, unlike the other tiny serving cups, they're washer-friendly and re-cyclable.

 

They also serve as internal organizers for lunchboxes and they are perfect for storing purposes.

 

Children just love them and this is how you can make them become interested in kitchen and baking related topics.

 

 

Rule 3: Flexibility & Be Open To More Than One Baking Supply Solution

 

What actually got us going on silicone baking molds wasn't an attraction to their fun shapes and bright colours, but instead the possibility of having the ability to make muffins and cupcakes in a tiny sleeping area kitchen, where we truthfully didn't have the space for a metal muffin pan. This was a project that we did for one of our client and this is how we came up with the idea of reusable silicon molds within our own cake catering business.

 

The nice thing about these baking cups and molds is they stack brilliantly and take up about as much space as an espresso or coffee cup ( dependent on their size ). This means you can use these cups as an excuse to get shot of some of your weightier baking pans. Having said that, we suggest clinging to your old style metal cake pans. We have both metal and silicone cake pans and apply the ones that are most practical in relation to the baking task at hand. Having available all the options is always the best way to go and we suggest using whatever is more practical for your own baking project.

 

When it comes down to bigger cakes, it's much better to have a stiff, more supportive material and in this case we would not recommend the more flexible silicone molds.

 

The one time in which we'd advocate the acquisition of a bigger silicone cake pan is if it is a specifically formed novelty pan and if you cannot find the same shape in a metal pan.

 

So as a general rough guide, we'd choose metal pans when handling bigger confectionary treats and use our own flexible silicon molds when it comes to smaller treats like cupcakes and muffins.