Cup-cakes for school. How big?

[Lolpigs]

I make cupcakes alot for clients, and I would definatley I would make "normal" size cupcakes. Mini ones leave you little room for decoration (unless you dont want to decorate) and take alot more time to produce, by that I mean, the more you downsize something the fiddlier and more time consuimg it becomes and the mini ones are more difficult to get to rise correctly, not burn etc LOL can't you tell I don't like making those

Bake 2 or so batches of cupcakes and pick the best ones out of those if your fussy about that sort of thing For Icing, you can do a simple butter cream icing, use fondant which you can buy ready made, or make marshmallow fondant which is the home made variety. Piping bags makes butter cream sooo much easier.

Not sure if you want to make the batter yourself or are going to buy? I use Bakels Cake mix. There is a place on ebay called Champagne Cakes where you can get it in 1kg lots, becuase its a commercial mix it's normally sold in 20kg bags, and is VERY yummy Comes in a number of base flavours too.

Hope this helps mmmm now I want to make some cupcakes Let me know if you want help with anything recipie or decoration wise I'm happy to help!

L x