{Recipe} Perfectly Chocolate Cupcakes (2024)

FAQs

How much cake batter do I need for cupcakes? ›

We recommend filling our baking cups 2/3 full to allow room for your cupcakes to rise. Since our liners are a little taller than standard size, that comes to about 3 or 4 tablespoons of batter.

"Baking fluffy, moist cupcakes is all about creating air bubbles in your batter that expand in the oven," she says. "If you overmix your batter, you collapse those bubbles and end up with a brick-like cake." Always mix at a low speed to avoid this, stopping just as all ingredients blend.

Flour is perhaps the most important ingredient in a cake mix, as it creates the basic structure of the entire cake. A major component of flour is gluten, which is a protein that provides a way for the cake to bind to itself. The gluten creates a web that traps and seals air bubbles into the cake mix.

Generally, they're baked in a 350°F oven for 10 to 15 minutes. How to make jumbo cupcakes: A recipe that makes 24 standard (2½-inch) cupcakes will make 10 to 16 jumbo cupcakes. Typically, they're baked in a 350°F oven about 25 minutes.

After you take cupcakes out of the oven and have determined they are done, let them cool in the pan for five to 10 minutes. Then remove cupcakes from the pans and place them on a cooling rack to continue cooling. Make sure cupcakes are completely cooled before frosting.

Use “bottom heat' for baking a cake. “Top heat” which is commonly called broiling is only good for when you want to brown the top of whatever you are cooking. If you broil a cake, the cake will end up burnt on top, undercooked on the sides and bottom and raw in the middle.

Use milk instead of water

Most box cake recipes will tell you to add water to the mix. Instead, try adding milk using the same proportions. This will make the cake richer and creamier because it ups the fat content. You can even use buttermilk here for a pleasant tang.

Nope! The baking cups are already pre-coated and they do not need to be greased! HOW FULL SHOULD I FILL THE CUP? This depends on the batter but for your typical fluffy cake batter, you want to fill the cup about 1/2 way to have the cupcake just below the rim of the cup.

How much should you fill cupcake liners? ›

Fill your cupcake cases 2/3 full – around 3 tablespoons – or one decent ice scream scoop. Avoid filling your cupcake cases with too much batter as they will not bake properly and might overflow when they rise.

Moisture is the main reason why cases peel - don't bake cupcakes in a steamy environment so you shouldn't have pans of bubbling water or kettles boiling.