How to make cupcake molds with your own hands?

In the kitchen of almost every housewife, you can see a large number of different cooking appliances. Among them, you can find baking dishes. Today we’ll talk about how to make homemade muffin tins.

Cupcake baking dishes can be made from various materials. Most often, cellulose bases are used for this. The most common options are processed food paper, parchment food paper.

All materials used for the manufacture of molds, must be subjected to special treatment. It will make them moisture resistant and as durable as possible.

Also, after such a procedure, he will be able to absorb all the excess fat during cooking.

Silicone coated food paper is considered a great option for making muffins. From it you can easily make dishes of different sizes and shapes.

Many housewives try to replace store bakeware with homemade. Today there are many molds for muffins that can be made at home:

• muffin baking paper molds;
• foil dishes;
• mold for cupcakes with a hole;
• tulip shape;
• silicone dishes;
• dishes made of silicone sealant.

• First you need to prepare a small jar of metal or glass. In diameter, it should correspond to the bottom of the future mold. After that, on parchment with a pencil and a ruler, you need to draw several stripes. Their width should be about 10-13 centimeters.
• Throughout the length of the stripes make small serifs. Then squares are cut from the parchment along the lines. The pencil is then gently erased with an eraser.
• The cut square should be placed above the jar in the center. The material is pressed tightly to the base, bending its edges down. So do with every piece of parchment cut out.
• Each mold is recommended to be soaked in a small amount of oil. After that, they are laid out in a baking dish. Ready dough is poured into them and everything is sent to the oven.

• First you need to prepare several disposable cups. From one of them it is necessary to cut the bottom to the required depth. At the same time, it is necessary to cut out a piece of rectangular shape from foil. It needs to be folded in half.
• The resulting square of foil is carefully placed on the bottom of the glass, the bottom of which was not cut. The material must be pressed tightly to the object, bending its edges down.
• The bottom of the other glass cut in advance is placed on top of the foil. Without removing it, you need to cut off the remaining edges. But you need to leave about 1-2 centimeters.
• If you used a glass cup, then it is better to take a tight elastic band as a limiter. The edges of the molds are formed from the rest of the foil. In the end, if desired, the forms can be decorated with decorative paper.

• This option is suitable for making one large dessert. It can be made of foil. A large rectangle is cut from this material. The piece is doubled to make a double-sided square.
• The foil is placed on a round or square surface of a smaller size. The edges of the material are gently bent down and form dense walls of the future shape from them.
• A small round hole is cut out in the middle. The material around it is gradually wrapped up, forming walls.

This option is perfect for baking small cupcakes.

• First, small sections of a square shape are cut out of parchment. Their side should approximately equal the height of future molds, multiplied by two (plus the diameter of the dishes).
• Each square is added first from above, and then from below. Thus, the material must be folded into four equal parts. On each received fold line with a pencil, it is necessary to note serifs with a distance that will correspond to the radius of each shape. It should be measured from the center point on the paper.
• To make work faster and easier, you can put the glass in the middle of the parchment sheet. After this, make four serifs on its edges with a pencil.
• To give the sheet the desired shape, you need to draw a few additional lines with a pencil. To do this, it must be bent in the direction from the marked point of the bottom of the glass to the edge of the sheet at an angle of 25-30 degrees. This must be done first on one side of the central stripes.
• After that, the parchment sheet is turned over on the other side and the same fold is made from the central strips. Now you can form the molds, well bending the places where the lines are marked with a pencil. They can then be erased with an eraser.
• First, the parchment sheet is folded on one side. Then, according to the second bend, the material is folded in the opposite direction. In the end, you should get a rhombus.
• The other three lines on the sheet are bent in the same way. This will help to finally form a tulip shape from the material.

Most often, for the manufacture of such forms at home, they use a special compound material.

Such a base will be similar to rubber, it can be used instead of ordinary silicone material.

• First you need to prepare a plastic container. It should be without cracks and without scratches. Inside it is placed an object made of plaster or plastic. The future form will be cast from it.
• Then you need to take sand or a dry mixture. They are poured into a plastic container.At the same time, thoroughly treat the item with vegetable oil or soapy water.
• The item in the container must be filled with prepared silicone mass. After that, the container is sealed with a lid. In this form, all leave for 15 minutes.
• When time passes, the container is opened and carefully disassembled. After a few minutes, the silicone mixture should no longer stick to the hands. The shape is cut along with a clerical knife.

In this case, you can use any silicone sealant.

It is squeezed into a separate plate. You need to mix a little potato starch with it. The resulting mass is thoroughly kneaded.

The preparation must be greased in advance with vegetable oil or a simple hand cream. The finished silicone mixture is placed in it and left in this form until the next day. During the day, the mass can completely harden and the form can be removed.

Within a few hours, the mixture should solidify completely. After that, the workpiece is removed. At the end, the resulting shape can be further decorated with decorative paper.

When choosing the right material for making the mold, take into account some of the features yourself. Remember that silicone dishes will not allow you to make desserts with a crust. But at the same time, it is from such a mold that it is easiest to get the finished dish. It will be enough to bend the product a little so that the cupcakes are on the plate.

Also remember that Silicone has good non-stick properties. You can just use a cookie grease before baking. It can be used for all types of stoves (gas, electric, induction).

In addition, such material does not stick to the dough and easily absorbs all excess fat. These molds look aesthetically pleasing on cupcakes.

If you want the workpieces to harden faster, then you should use a large diameter pan with a flat lid for this. If not, you can take a metal tray.

Pour water into a pot and bring it to a boil. Then future molds need to be laid out on a hot lid or tray. The edges of parchment paper will become dry almost immediately.

When making such utensils, remember that the height of each product should be slightly larger, since during the cooking process the dough will rise. It is necessary to correctly calculate the diameter of the workpieces. You can use a round cup for this.

See below for how to make foil muffin molds.