Mini Christmas Cakes In Muffin Tins

The paper peels off the frozen cakes easily.

Mini christmas cakes in muffin tins.

They look festive on a decorative tray wrapped in red or green cellophane or tucked into a giveaway cookie plate. What size tin cans should i use for mini cakes. Add 2 cups self raising flour mix into fruit 1 2cup at a time. Triple line the sides of cake tin with baking paper ensure it.

To decorate dust icing with a little icing sugar and roll out to 3mm thick. When cooked remove muffin tins from the oven remove cakes in their papers from muffin tins and cool on racks. Bake at 325 for 22 24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If you want to serve individual cakes use larger muffin tins skip the crumbs and freeze the cakes until serving.

I also sprayed the liners lightly for easy removal. Bake in batches if necessary at 150 c 300 f for about 40 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of a cake comes out clean. While still hot splash cakes with a capful of extra brandy. I did bake about 8 minutes longer the suggested time.

Preheat the oven to 160 c fan oven 140 c gas mark 3. Put 8 paper or foil muffin cases into a muffin tin. This plumps up the fruit to make the muffins deliciously moist. Fill paper lined miniature muffin cups almost full.

Soak overnight in 2 cups juice i used gingerale and 30ml brandy. Spoon into 6 x 1 cup capacity 250ml non stick muffin tins. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. If following the recipe above and using six tins the mixture won t completely fill the 400g tins but will bake just as well.

Bake for 45 minutes or until cakes are firm. Recipe yesterday ad baked them in mini muffin tins. Cool the cakes in the tin for 2 3 minutes then turn onto a wire rack and leave until completely cold. Then topped half with cherry pie filling and half with semi sweet melted chocolate.

Pecan pie mini muffins while these are delicious year round you could easily turn them into an edible christmas gift. Brush the top of each cake with half of the apricot. Cover and leave in a cool place for up to 2 days though at least overnight. Makes 16 regular muffin sized cakes or 12 texas muffin sized cakes.

Next challenge is to decorate them. Cut into star shapes using a cutter and place on top of cakes before serving. Divide the cake batter evenly between the cups of the tin and bake on a low shelf for about 25 minutes or until well risen golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. The cuteast little bite sized cakes.

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