2 Ways Not To Need Paper/ Aluminum Muffin Cups
For several months now, Aurora and I have made all of our cupcakes and muffins with the same cupcake cups, washed and used repeatedly. No, we haven’t figured out a way to re-use the aluminum ones—we’ve been using individual silicone cups. When we celebrated an early Christmas over Thanksgiving with my parents, we received a second option to reuse: a silicone muffin tray.
Both options are rated to 500F, make a dozen standard-sized muffins or cupcakes, and are cleaned using soap and water. The ridges in the muffin cups make them slightly more difficult to clean than the smooth-sided muffin tray, but on the other hand the muffin cups store in a smaller space. Either is a terrific way to work on eliminating “disposable” from your kitchen vocabulary.
The food in progress in the photo above is my pumpkin/cranberry cupcake, shown below iced and decorated with cranberries in homemade cranberry sauce.
Top Photo: Johanna Sharrard
November 25th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Jess, those you awesome! Can you send some (cupcakes) this way?
You know another thing about those silocone-jobbies is that you can get them in many sorts of fun shapes outside of what you can traditionally do- hearts, stars, pumpkins, teddy bears, squares, etc. And, the shapes are often seasonal so you can get them on clearance after holidays!!
November 25th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
those were sooooo. freakin. good.
i should have taken a dozen for the drive home.
November 26th, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Yeah, looking at the picture I wish I had a few more to eat with me!