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Cupcake Tips

Cupcake have been getting very popular over the last several years and of course Bake Krazy Bakery has been making a lot of them. From a simple yellow cupcake to maybe a rocky road, but their all good and only limited by your imagination. Here are some tips to make yours the best cupcake in the neighborhood.

1. Fill your cupcake pan to the right level. Only fill the pan to 1/2 – 3/4 and no more or you will get a gooey mess instead of a beautiful cupcake. If you use to little you will end up with a wimpy cupcake that you will have to over fill with frosting to make it look any good.

2. Choose the right pan.  A good cupcake pan will be slightly heavy allowing for even heat and they should cook up to 6 to 12 cupcake at a time. Make sure that you have two pans so that when one is cooling the other one can be filled. Never use a hot pan to fill or you will throw off your cooking process.

3. Dont overmix your batter. This will cause your cupcakes to become chewy instead of perfectly moist. Follow the direction in the cupcake recipes. If it calls for a hand mixer and you use a stand mixer which mixes faster you will have to adjust your mixing times.

4. Bring all ingredients to room temperature before mixing. The items will mix evenly, and the results will be wonderful cupcake batter. By mixing cold items into your batter, you risk having a lumpy batter which might cause you to overmix your batter.

5. Bake at the right temperature. Preheat your oven to the correct temperature before you place your cupcakes in the oven. A lot of residential oven cook uneven, so rotate your pan halfway through the cooking process to ensure a great completely cooked batter.

6. Test for doneness. Check your cupcakes at the minimum time allowed for doneness, if they aren’t finished place them back in for additional time. Cupcakes are done when you insert a toothpick into the middle and it removes clean.

7. Make that cupcake moist and sweet. To ensure that your cupcakes are sweet and moist make up a simple syrup mixture. To make simple syrup, mix a cup of water with a cup of sugar and bring to a boil (then simmer)on the stove until it reaches 1/2 reduction. Allow the syrup to cool to room temperature and place it in a squeeze bottle. Once your cupcakes are cooled sprinkle a little simple syrup on each and allow it to soak in. Now decorate them the way you want and you have it the best tasting, moist, sweet CUPCAKE

Happy Baking
Chef Brian Klauss