Over mixing can add too much air to your batter. When you put cupcakes in the hot oven with too much air in the batter, the hot air will only make it seem as if your cupcakes are rising as the air escapes, causing the dreaded deflation. With practice, learn how to mix cupcake batter just until the ingredients are combined and no more than that. I like to use a silicone spatula and fold the ingredients together rather than use a mixer, which can beat the ingredients to death.
This part is a little tricky, but ensures a delightful dome shaped cupcake. Once the edges seemed to have baked, reduce the temperature back to the one recommended in the recipe. This way the center of the cupcake can rise apart from the edges, giving you that desired shape. Do not open the oven door while the cupcakes are baking. Opening the oven door lets some of the heat out, which ultimately lets air escape from the cupcakes, leading to deflation. Need more baking, breakfast, or lunch ideas?
Thank you for the information as a amputee I bake every Thursday pass it all out neighbors but cakes and cupcakes fall after they are out of the oven. I know why now. Again thank you. I have a small size OTG oven…. Cakes and cupcakes usually bake at F or C.
If your cake is beginning to brown, you can place a piece of tin foil over the pan to prevent it from browning. Hello,my cake increased in size minutes after it was put into the oven and started pouring out, deflated almost immediately and reduced in size. Write down on each recipe the exact weight of baking powder you use so that you will know for the next time you make that recipe and get consistent results. Also stick to one brand! All of them differ, even if it is just slightly.
If you see there is a bit too much batter, rather bake half a cupcake extra. Rather have one little manky one which serves as your sneaky treat anyway and 11 perfect cupcakes as opposed to 11 overflown cupcakes.
Preheat your oven till the exact temperature before putting the cupcakes in the oven. Consider buying an additional thermometer to hang inside your oven. Oven thermostats are not always that accurate. An additional thermometer is a MUST for a gas oven. I once tried out a lemon cupcake recipe which called for lemon juice in the batter. I made a batch with lemon juice and one without. The batch with lemon juice completely overflowed.
Acidity can also act as a rising agent. Think of traditional Red Velvet Cake. The vinegar, along with the bicarbonate of soda, makes the cake rise. Image by maisoncupcake. If your oven temperature is too hot, the outer layer of batter will bake and harden too quickly. The centre of the cupcake will still be liquid batter that needs to expand and go somewhere! It will find the weakest spot on the cupcake and force itself out in that direction. Always be careful of unevenly mixed cake batter when using a stand mixer.
In fact, this can also occur when using a handheld electric beater. Gently go around the bowl with a rubber spatula to loosen any butter and sugar that might still be stuck from the creaming phase. Be sure to do this on the bottom of the bowl as well. Gently keep folding the batter with a rubber spatula till there are no streaks of butter left.
This can cause total overflowing as discussed above or sporadic overflowing in selected areas around the edges. Image by Jessica Harris Cake Design. This tends to happen when I bake gluten free cupcakes. I assume it is because gluten free goods contain less binding agents. In that case it makes sense that there is less binding between the cupcake and its wrapper as well. The way I solve this is to use average quality cupcake wrappers. They have a poor non-stick ability, so they stick very well to cupcakes.
With regular cupcakes this can be annoying, but with gluten free cupcakes it works perfectly! With regular cupcakes it is usually due to under baking your cupcakes. When the cupcakes cool, they then shrink inwards and leave the wrapper behind. This problem also occurs with fancy cupcake wrappers.
All cupcakes will shrink at least a little bit after baking. If your wrapper is a rigid one, the shape of the cupcake will change post baking, but the wrapper will remain the same. For this reason I really prefer fluted paper cupcake wrappers which expand and contract with the cupcake.
Thanks for reading! If you have had any other cupcake struggles which are not discussed in this post, please share them. I hope you enjoyed my full cupcake troubleshooting!
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