The CupCake Experiment: Plain Vanilla - 2nd attempt

[beelikej]

The CupCake Experiment PART 1B
After yesterday's failed first effort, I gave the recipe for Plain Vanilla CupCakes another try.

Things I changed:

I used real butter instead of margarine

I used less egg

I used kitchenscales to weigh the ingredients

I whisked longer and got fluffier batter

I changed the temperature from 175C to 200C

Look at my funky new kitchen scales!

Ahem. So once again I made a mess. But I guess 2 out of six is an improvement;)

Next time I will:

Mix the bakingpowder with the flour before mixing in the other ingredients

Not put as much batter in the front cups and maybe put the whole batch as far to the back of my oven as possible

All other suggestions are welcome! I will try another recipe next weekend:)

Comments

[bflyw.livejournal.com]

Are you still using a fork to whisk? I think that might be a problem, because you might not be able to add enough air to the batter.

Also - try coocking them a bit longer... use the pin test (stick a pin into the muffin and if it comes out clean it's ready). Try 5 more mins and see if it helps.

Good luck!

[beelikej.livejournal.com]

I did use a fork again, but really gave the batter a good beating this time; it looked a lot fluffier than my first try. Thanks for that pin-test suggestion, I'll keep that in mind (although the 'melted' look of my cupcakes made it pretty clear they were not baked all the way through. *g*

I'm not giving up though! I trust I will get it right eventually. (And even if they weren't perfect, they tasted great anyway;)