Last Sunday, I finally used the cupcake stand my MIL got me for Christmas (thanks Pat!). I noticed, while arranging the cupcakes, that the liners looked see through- I had bought plain white. How do you get the cupcake liners to stay looking pretty? I tried adding another liner after baking but the liners were loose and messy looking so I took them back off. Do you double the liners before baking or is there another trick?
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I've done double while baking and that works, but I've also found that if you use really good liners, they are a bit thicker to begin with. They just cost more! LOL!
I agree with what Jingle said above. When I buy the better cupcake liners with patterns they seem to look better. I have dots, cupcakes, stars...I could go on and on! I love making cupcakes! There's a great cupcake recipe on Tasty Tuesday this week. Blueberry Cupcakes!
-Kim
That always happens to me too---with plain colored or designs. I'll have to try more expensive ones & see if that works. They still look yummy though!
Aha. So these white ones from WalMart were the problem. Any suggestions as to where to buy "the more expensive ones"? A favorite web store perhaps? Anyone?
Mmmm...I have no idea. But I bet those that came before me are on to something.
Love the stand.
Tiff
I think Michael's has some pretty cupcake liners. Do you have a Michaels where you live?
We do- in fact we are heading there as soon as we all get better. I'll have to check out the baking aisle!
As a cup cake lover.. I don't see anything wrong with the way they looked, the first thought was ' oh! yummy cupcakes' after that.. nothing seemed wrong. I do agree with previous comments.. I have seen the variety of cupcake liners at Micheals.. they are very pretty..
I love these stands. I am obsessed with cupcakes. My daughter begged NOT to have them this year on her birthday, so, being the sympathetic mother I am, I decided to make her a cake shaped like a terrifically large cupcake... I hadn't realized, till Dwayne pointed it out, that THAT was STILL A CUPCAKE!!! So, I just bought a plain old round cake. Norah was happy, but I was... :( SO sad. Cupcakes are awesome!!!! I have no advice about the paper, though. Just wanted to share my obsession and my joy. This picture makes me crave them... with vanilla ice cream. Nothing better.
I have some silicone ones that I got from Target. We use them for muffins all the time.
My mom used some kind of cupcake cover things for a wedding she just did. I don't know where she got them from but she covered the bottom with some designed stuff.
I second the thicker liners, if Michael's doesn't have them, try WILTON.COM.
use foil liners. i think they are the best and give the cupcakes a nice finished look. you can buy them at the regular grocery store. i think they are made by reynolds.
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