CupcakesRoxy Coppen

10 Things You Should Know About

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cupcakePronunciation: /ˈkʌpkeɪk/1 a small cake baked in a cup -shaped foil or paper

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A standard cupcake uses the same basic ingredients as standard-sized cakes: butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Other

recipes may include ingredients such as cocoa, vanilla, bicarbonate soda, plain flour, self raising flour and chocolate chips, lemon,

carrot, pumpkin, banana, orange, coffee and peanut butter.

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Nearly any recipe that is suitable for a layer cake can be used to bake cupcakes. Because their small size is more efficient for heat conduction, cupcakes bake much faster than layer cakes. You can find loads of cupcake recipes online, but for a basic vanilla cupcake recipe, I recommend this one:

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Originally, cupcakes were baked in heavy pottery cups. Some bakers still use individual ramekins, small coffee mugs, LARGE tea cups, or other small ovenproof pottery - type dishes for baking cupcakes.

Cupcakes are usually baked in muffin tins. These pans are most often made from metal, with or without a non-stick surface, and

generally have six or twelve depressions or “cups”. They may also be made from stoneware, silicone rubber, or other materials. A standard size cup is 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter and holds about 4 ounces (110 g), although pans for both miniature and jumbo size cupcakes exist. Speciality pans may offer many different sizes and shapes.

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The classic vanilla cupcake never goes astray, although in more recent times cupcakes have developed many more intriguing and strange flavours. You can find many recipes online with flavours such as chocolate,

lemon, carrot, pumpkin, banana, orange, coffee, lamenting, berries, red velvet, apple, malt, walnut, cookies and cream, pineapple, strawberry, coconut, Ferrero Rocher, orange and poppy seed & peanut butter.

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The simplest icing is a glacé icing, containing icing sugar and water. This can be flavored and colored as des i red , for example by using lemon juice in place of the water. More complicated icings can be made by beating fat into icing sugar (as in butter cream), by melting fat

and sugar together, by using egg whites (as in royal icing), and by adding other ingredients such as glycerin (as in fondant). Some icings can be made from combinations of sugar and cream cheeses or sour cream, or by using ground almonds (as in marzipan).

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Cupcakes are topped with many assortments of sweets. Your usual toppings for cupcakes include nuts, cherries, jaffas, coconut, chocolate chips, marshmallows, 100’s and 1000’s, sugar toppers

and decorations, icing figurines, smarties, paper origami, jelly lollies, cinnamon, drizzled chocolate, raspberries, cachous, sprinkles, chocolate shavings, blueberries and many, many more.

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The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation

of “a cake to be baked in small cups” was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simms. The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats” in 1828 in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.

In the early 19th century, there were two different uses for the name cup cake or cupcake. In previous centuries, before muffin tins were widely available, the cakes were often baked in individual pottery cups, ramekins, or molds and took their name from the cups they were baked in. This is the use of the name that has persisted, and the name of “cupcake” is now given to any small cake that is about the size of a teacup.

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Presentation is everything and when it comes to cupcakes, a cupcake stand is what will take your creative designs and decorating ideas to the next level. Most stands by themselves would not qualify as table decorations. Standing alone they are little more than twisted wires and not very flashy or decorative. However, once you combine your wedding,

birthday or baby shower cupcakes and cupcake stands to make a pleasing display, you have transformed your homemade party treats into a stylish decorative centerpiece that will dazzle and amaze your guests.

You can buy crystal stands, cardboard stands, wire stands, metal stands, china stands, glass stands and even light up stands.

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Individual patty cases, or cupcake liners, may be used in baking. These are typically round sheets of thin paper pressed into a round, fluted cup shape. Liners can facilitate the easy removal of the cupcake from the tin after baking, keep the cupcake moister, and reduce the effort needed to clean the pan. The use of liners is also considered a more sanitary option when cupcakes are being passed from hand to hand. Like cupcake pans,

several sizes of paper liners are available, from miniature to jumbo.

In addition to paper, cupcake liners may be made from very thin aluminum foil or, in a non-disposable version, silicone rubber. Because they can stand up on their own, foil and silicone liners can also be used on a flat baking sheet, which makes them popular among people who do not have a specialized muffin tin.

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eating them

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