Cupcakes Without A Muffin Tray

I love eating cupcakes. I remember as a child my grandfather used to always get me a box of goodies when he returned home from work and in that box cupcake was a constant goodie!

Yesterday when I went to bake some cupcakes I couldn’t find my muffin tray anywhere and I was craving for them so badly and I had to make them at any cost. You know how they say ‘where there’s a will, there’s a way’, well I found out that you could actually bake cupcakes without using a muffin tray!!

This recipe is the simplest way of making classic cupcakes.

Ingredients:

Butter – 125gms (melted & cooled at room temp)

Egg – 1 (beaten)

Milk – ¾ cup

Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Self raising flour – 2 cups

Tea cups – 12 to 13

Note: you can make self raising flour at home. For every 1 cup of all purpose flour add 1 ½ tsp of baking powder and 1 tsp of salt.

Method:

Preheat oven to 200C

Sift the self raising flour couple of times. Add the flour to a bowl. Make a well in the center. 

Add the butter, milk, egg and vanilla essence to the flour and mix well with a spoon until well combined without any lumps.

Place the cupcake liners on top of the tea cups. Add dollops of the batter into each liner. (Every time you pour the batter be careful as the liner will sink into the tea cup coz of the weight. So pour it carefully.)

Arrange the tea cups with cupcake batter onto a tray and bake it for 15mins or until when a skewer inserted comes out clean. When done top it up with frosting.

Well they might not be pretty but tastes good!

Simple Frosting:

In a bowl mix 1 cup of icing sugar with 1 to 1 ½ tbsp. of water and a drop of color of your choice (if you want). Spoon it over the cupcakes.

This is a great technique for those of you who bake cupcakes only occasionally don’t want to spend money on buying a muffin tray.