Cupcake Recipes, Tips & Ideas

[DaintreeDream]

Nope easy as

ok so it works best as a layer cake (just 2 cakes joined with buttercream in the middle)

so just lightly grease 2 x 20cm cake tins (one at a time if you only have 1)

bake for 35mins until a skewer comes out clean.

If you don't want to do it as a layer cake just bake 2 cakes :-) - you can freeze the uniced cake...

Does the ingredients in the first post make two 20cm cakes? Or do you have to do a double batch?

I was thinking of halving the cake mix batch and icing it on top? So I would halve the recipe you gave to make one 20cm cake right?

am I making any sense?

[LaDeeDa]

yep your right on track the mix makes 2 x 20cm cakes
So halving it will work in theory

[Patooties]

Will it make much of a difference if i use salted butter, as I haven't any blocks of the unsalted?
tia

[LaDeeDa]

I have used both and haven't noticed much of a diff

[Patooties]

ok, thanks
I have to make about 4 dozen for my dd's class tomorrow - they're doing an RSPCA cupcake fundraiser. (by the sounds of it I might have to make extra to keep at home - i can't wait to taste them!)

[LaDeeDa]

How Cool!
I hope they are a hit!

[Bathsheba]

Ok I'm going to make these too. I bought a vanilla cupcake from The Cupcake Bakery in at Melbourne Central last weekend and I wasn't that impressed actually. Too dry and flavourless. I'm a vanilla snob though... they probably used imitation vanilla essence to increase the profit margin... I'll be using the real thing

[Bathsheba]

My mixture made 36! But I used the standard sized cup cake patty pans. Maybe if I used the larger ones (the commercial size) it would have come to 24. My kids couldn't eat a whole large cupcake.