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Baking Cups are used to line muffin tins when making cupcakes, muffins or fairy cakes. Their use generally replaces greasing or greasing and flouring the cups.

They are made of pleated wax-treated paper or pleated foil. You can also get reusable ones made from silicone. They are sold stacked in a box. The foil ones are stacked separated by paper muffin cups. The package directions often say to discard these paper ones, but many people use them anyway. Household-size boxes contain 25 or 50 of them. Commercially, of course, cases will often hold around 10,000 of them.

Baking Cups come in different sizes to fit different sized tins. At home, to determine the size of a baking cup, flatten the cup out, and measure through the middle from side to side (you probably won't ever need to do this if you store them in the box they came in, which will give the size.) Commercially, to be more accurate when ordering tens of thousands of these at a time, measurements will be given in overall width as above, but the measurements will also include the height of a side wall, and the width of the centre base.

The design on Baking Cups can be plain or quite decorative. Foil ones can be regular "silver" foil colour, or gold, or other colours. Both foil and paper ones are often holiday themed, particularly at Christmas and Hallowe'en.

Paper ones better to use if you are planning to reheat muffins in a microwave. Some foil ones are strong enough to stand up on their own; you don't need a muffin pan. They can be an ideal choice when you need to make a lot of muffins at once but only have 1 or 2 muffin pans. If you plan to freeze the cupcakes or fairy cakes, use the foil liners. Paper ones will get soggy when you go to thaw them.

Paper Baking Cups can be composted after use; foil ones may be accepted in recycling, depending on where you live.

Light patterns on a white background might not show up well if your batter is also a light coloured one.

Baking Cups are also used for making caramel apples in (for standing the apples up in them.)

You can get Baking Cups that are certified Kosher.

Cooking Tips
Fill Baking Cups 2/3 full with batter.

Language Notes
Sometimes referred to as "Bake Cups".

See Also:

Cupcakes, Fairy Cakes, Muffin Tins, Muffins

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