Mitsu’s Tips To Making The Perfect Cupcake
- Vegan Cupcakes Takeover The World is a brilliant book to get you started on the road to vegan cupcake obsession! I have been baking cupcakes for a couple of years and now that I am thinking up my own ideas for new flavours I always find there is a recipe in there that I can adapt.
- Get an oven thermometer, my oven is out by 5 degrees!
- Check whether your cupcakes are done by inserting a clean knife it should come out clean, or by pressing the top of the cupcake – it should spring back.
- NEVER open you oven within the first 15 minutes or you could end up with sunk cupcakes!
- Make your frosting in a blender to get it really light a fluffy.
- If making more than one flavour of frosting: transfer the basic mix of vegetable spread and icing sugar to a bowl to add the flavouring/colouring. This saves time and water having to clean the blender after each batch.
- Most cake recipes can be made into cupcakes, you may have to adjust the specified cooking time and it also allows you to play around with flavours coming up with a complimentary frosting.
- If you end up with extra frosting pop it in the fridge, I find it’s not in there long before it gets used up! I have also read that you can freeze it too.
- If you decide to get serious and invest in a piping bag, get the Wilton 1M icing tip (or similar open star tip), it’s great for making pretty roses and lovely swirls of frosting. I also find the larger tips give the best affect when icing cute little cupcakes.
- If you bake a lot of cupcakes for home consumption why not get some silicone baking cases and reduce your paper wastage? Since a lot of my baking is not for friends and family anymore I am continually on the look out for unbleached/recycled paper cases.
- If you are trying out a new recipe or experimenting, halve the quantities, there is nothing more heartbreaking then throwing away a full batch of cupcakes.
- If you are still having problems email me, or ask me on Twitter and I will attempt to help you! I have also just discovered Mums Who Bake they have a forum on there where you can ask questions, as yet I appear to be the only vegan mum on there so register now!
Tags: baking, cupcakes, tips
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