Uncommon Uses for Cupcake Liners
Cupcake liners are awesome, little, usually overlooked tools for a variety of uses. Here are a few ways I use them.
1. I like to bake brownies in cupcake liners. Before I started doing this we ended up with brownie crumbs everywhere in our house. These smushed dark blobs are not fun to get out of carpet! So I started baking my brownies in the liners. We have almost zero brownie mess now and the bonus for us is that there are no edge pieces. I know there are many people who only want the edge pieces, but not us. We are inside pieces people. It is nice to send brownies to classroom parties in these liners too because they are easier to hand out to kids.
2. I use cupcake liners to serve ice cream at my kids' birthday parties. I just scoop out the ice cream a couple of hours before the party, stick them on a cookie sheet and put back into the freezer. When it is cake and ice cream time I pull out the tray and put the liner full of ice cream on the kids' plates. This means that the melting ice cream doesn't touch the cake on the plate either; a cardinal sin for some kids!
3. Cupcake liners are great for giving kids a few treats like pretzels or cheese cubes. They can hold it in their little hands better.
4. Cupcake liners are good for craft projects involving small pieces. If my girls are working with beads and baubles to create jewelry they put the "like" pieces into liners and then they can see everything available better.
5. And of course, cupcake liners are great for making cupcakes, too! Have you seen the popular, fancy cupcake parlors popping up around the country??!! They sell those things for over $3 a piece!
1. I like to bake brownies in cupcake liners. Before I started doing this we ended up with brownie crumbs everywhere in our house. These smushed dark blobs are not fun to get out of carpet! So I started baking my brownies in the liners. We have almost zero brownie mess now and the bonus for us is that there are no edge pieces. I know there are many people who only want the edge pieces, but not us. We are inside pieces people. It is nice to send brownies to classroom parties in these liners too because they are easier to hand out to kids.
2. I use cupcake liners to serve ice cream at my kids' birthday parties. I just scoop out the ice cream a couple of hours before the party, stick them on a cookie sheet and put back into the freezer. When it is cake and ice cream time I pull out the tray and put the liner full of ice cream on the kids' plates. This means that the melting ice cream doesn't touch the cake on the plate either; a cardinal sin for some kids!
3. Cupcake liners are great for giving kids a few treats like pretzels or cheese cubes. They can hold it in their little hands better.
4. Cupcake liners are good for craft projects involving small pieces. If my girls are working with beads and baubles to create jewelry they put the "like" pieces into liners and then they can see everything available better.
5. And of course, cupcake liners are great for making cupcakes, too! Have you seen the popular, fancy cupcake parlors popping up around the country??!! They sell those things for over $3 a piece!
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Great ideas! Do you bake the brownies in a muffin pan? Does it affect your baking time?
These are some great ideas! How do you bake the brownies in the cup cake liners?
Good ideas! Especially the one for snacks! I don't know if you have seen those silicone ones, but they would work even better for snacks for children and are reusable! YAY!
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I bake the brownies in a muffin pan for about 20 minutes.
Awesome ideas, we will have to try some.
Thanks for sharing such great ideas! I can't wait to try the brownies!
I just love the idea of scooping ice cream onto them and then having it ready to go! Thanks for sharing!
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Oh man! I am such an "inside brownie" person! I leave the outer edges for my hubby and son. This is a great idea!
love the ideas! I get muffin liners in a bulk 500 count package from Gordon Food Service because they are cheaper than getting them at the grocery store. I love using them for various things and you gave me a few more ideas! :)
great ideas!
What wonderful ideas! I love the ice cream in the liner one - that would definitely save time at birthday parties. Thanks for the tips!
These are wonderful ideas. My daughter's birthday is this weekend and I just happen to have a few packs of these. I'm definately going to try this for her party.
great ideas
I saw a icecream cupcakes on another blog the other day and you can also bake brownies inside icecream cones.
I like to use cupcake liners to sort and store Christmas Ornaments.
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