If you’re a beginner baker just learning to make a few delicious desserts, you’ve probably seen many of them asking for silicone baking cups. Don’t hesitate to grab a bunch of these useful baking tools because they will make any baking task much easier. Plus, they have so many other practical uses as well. When you learn a few ways to use your baking cups, you and your entire family will love including them in their everyday tasks. Here are a few things you can do with silicone baking cups:
Prep muffins
If you love fresh muffins in the morning but don’t have time to whip up small batches before work or taking your kids to school, just use your silicone baking cups to prep muffins and freeze them. Take your cups, fill them with muffin mixture, line them on a sheet pan and put in the freezer. When you’re ready to have quick muffins, just pop a few from the freezer and bake just like you would fresh ones (except add a few extra minutes due to the mixture being frozen).
Make poached eggs
Looking for an easy way to make poached eggs? Crack an egg into your silicone baking cup and place into boiling water (about 1/2 centimeter lower than your silicone cup) and in 3-4 minutes, you’ll have perfectly poached eggs with runny yolks.
Create chocolate cups
If you want to wow your dinner guests or family members with an impressive dessert, use your silicone baking cups to make chocolate cups. Melt chocolate, coat silicone cups with it and freeze until hard. Simply pop the chocolate cup out of the mold and provide your guests with a dessert so good, they can eat the bowl too!
Make cupcakes in silicone baking cups
Naturally, this baking supply is perfect for making cupcakes. Cupcakes are a beloved dessert of kids, teens, adults and seniors, and they are super versatile and adjustable to any taste. The advantage of using silicone baking cups is that they require no greasing, no extra fuss and no pesky removal that’s often involved with paper cups. Choose a few recipes to try with your new cups and don’t hesitate to experiment with ingredients, products, mixes and bases.
Mise en place
French for preparing your ingredients before cooking, mise en place can be made easy with silicone baking cups. They can hold everything from grated cheese, chopped onion, diced garlic and pre measured spices, nuts and powders. Some are firm enough to safely hold separated eggs and other liquids.
Stashing leftovers
Do you have some leftover tomato sauce, bone broth, pesto or grated cheese? Use your silicone baking cups to store your leftovers in the fridge or freezer and have them ready when you need to use them again. No more wasting food and money by throwing things away!
Organizing
Silicone baking cups can help you outside of the kitchen as well. For instance, if you have a messy office or an overflowing junk drawer, you can use these little organizing cups to make everything nice and tidy. Since they are made with silicone, they won’t slip and slide in your drawers or on your desk, which makes them perfect for storing loose items like coins, thumbtacks, etc. You can also use muffin liners to improve your kids’ lunchboxes and keep all ingredients nice and separate. They will also add a touch of fun and color to these boxes and make kids happy for lunch.
Lining your car cup holders
Did you know that Americans spend about 300 hours a year in their cars? Well, all that use can get your car quite dirty and messy, but silicone baking cups can help. Put them in your cup holders, and when they get full of crumbs and dust, just run them under water and voila—you have a clean and tidy car again.
Arts and crafts
As soon as they spot them, your kids will love your new silicone baking cups. And the best thing is that you can freely play with them. You can use the cups to mix finger painting paint, store modeling clay and play-do, separate beads and trinkets, etc. Unlike other organizing tools for arts and crafts, these are made of silicone and can never break when dropped by kids. Silicone baking cups can also be used during playtime when kids pretend to be cooks. Some kids might love to use them to make towers while practicing motor skills, hand/eye coordination, focus, etc.
Go ahead and buy a bunch of colorful silicone baking cups for your household and you’ll discover many extra uses for them along the way.
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