When you hear the word “cupcake,” you immediately think of a store-bought piece of baked goods with raisins and covered in powdered sugar. Terribly tasty and also terribly high in calories. Sometimes, of course, you can pamper yourself. But the question is, is it possible to make an equally delicious dessert at home and not be afraid of extra pounds? It is possible and necessary!

In our family, cupcakes appear on the table often and every time I bake them differently. Sometimes children's fruit yogurt and kefir are used in the dough; even milk does not stand idle. The taste and appearance will vary, but they are always eaten without leaving any crumbs.

How to bake a delicious and healthy cupcake? Are there any secrets? And most importantly, at what temperature should this be done? I will answer all your questions below and provide my favorite recipes.

Consistency

One of the important factors in baking is the consistency of the finished dough. The thicker the dough, the denser the cake will be. If you want a dessert that is tender and melts in your mouth, make the dough as thick as pancakes. The end result will be soft muffins that go well with tea. In the case of a thicker dough, the dessert will be denser and more satisfying, but still very tasty.

Fillings

We are used to seeing muffins with raisins or simply with the addition of cocoa. But you can use your imagination and move away from the canons. Add berries or jam, even nuts will fit perfectly. But don't overdo it, otherwise you might ruin the dessert.

Temperature

The final type of baking depends on the temperature; you also need to take into account the size of the mold. For cupcakes in small tins, a temperature of 170-180 degrees is ideal; they are baked in literally 15-20 minutes. For larger baked goods, you should set the temperature to 160 degrees for 30-45 minutes, otherwise the cap will burst and the inside of the cupcake may remain raw.

Attention! Always place baked goods in a preheated oven.

A simple cupcake from what we had

Sometimes there is unfinished kefir or another jar of yogurt left in the refrigerator. Instead of just eating them, you can make cupcakes. They come out tender and more or less dietary. And if the yogurt is fruit or flavored, then you can save on a pack of vanillin. Nice bonus! So, what do we need:

• yogurt - 2 jars;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• sugar - 100 g (reduce or add to taste);
• salt - a pinch;
• soda - 0.5 teaspoon;
• flour - 200 g.

Beat yogurt with sugar, salt and eggs. Add flour mixed with soda. There is no need to extinguish the soda; yogurt will extinguish it. Mix well. The dough should be like pancakes; if it’s still a bit runny, add more flour. You can add fruits or berries to the finished dough only if the yogurt was natural without additives. Fill small silicone muffin tins to just below the middle level. If you have metal molds, then you need to grease them with butter. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. You can check the readiness with a toothpick or just start on the cap; if it springs, then the cake is ready.

Classic raisin cupcake

This cupcake is an aristocrat, because it comes from England. Tea lovers could not ignore this dessert and made it rightfully theirs. Due to the addition of milk to the dough, it ceased to be as usual crumbly, but at the same time acquired a delicate and melting texture.

Ingredients:

• butter - 125 g;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• sugar - 75 g;
• milk - 50 ml;
• raisins - 100 g;
• flour - 250 g;
• zest and juice of half a lemon;
• soda - 0.5 teaspoon.

Bake tin cupcakes in the oven at 200 degrees. Bake large muffins at 180 degrees.

How to bake tin cupcakes (muffins) with raisins in the oven

Ingredients for baking tin cupcakes
Flour - 400 grams
Chicken eggs - 2 pieces
Kefir - 200 milliliters
Raisins - 100 grams
Sugar - 200 grams
Soda - half a teaspoon
Powdered sugar - tablespoon

Cupcake recipe
Rinse the raisins and soak in hot water for 30 minutes. Break the eggs into a bowl, dissolve sugar in them, pour in kefir. Add raisins and mix well. Separately, mix flour with soda and pour into the dough, stirring. Knead to a sour cream consistency. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Bake the muffin dough at preheated temperature to 200 degrees for 20 minutes. Sprinkle baked cupcakes with powdered sugar.

How to bake a cupcake in the microwave

Products
Flour - 4 heaped tablespoons
Sugar - 3-4 tablespoons to taste
Milk - 3 tablespoons
Chicken egg - 1 piece
Butter or sunflower oil - 25 grams + 5 grams for greasing baking dishes
Cocoa (Golden Ear or Nesquik) - 2 tablespoons

How to bake a cupcake in the microwave
1. Melt the butter.
2. Sift the flour into a bowl, add sugar, pour in milk and add cocoa.
3. Break the egg and beat it, add it to the dough.
4. Pour in the butter and mix with a mixer until smooth.
5. Grease the inside of mugs or bowls for use in microwave ovens with oil.
6. Pour the dough into the baking bowl. It is important that the cake will rise 2 times during baking, so the bowl must be filled halfway.
7. Place the mugs in the microwave, set the gadget itself to maximum power (or 800 watts) and time - 3 minutes.
8. Check the cake with a toothpick for readiness - if the toothpick goes in easily, then the cake is ready, if not, return it to the microwave for another 30-40 seconds.

How to bake a large chocolate cupcake

Ingredients for making chocolate cake
Dough:
Butter - 250 grams
Flour - 2.5 cups
Sugar - 2 tablespoons
Vanilla sugar - 1 tablespoon
Starch - 3 tablespoons
Chicken eggs - 4 pieces
Milk - half a glass
Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
Salt - 1/4 teaspoon
Cocoa powder - 2-3 tbsp. spoons
For the glaze:
Grated chocolate - 2 tablespoons
Powdered sugar - 2 teaspoons
Milk - 2 tablespoons milk
Starch - half a teaspoon

Making cupcakes
Heat the butter a little to a liquid consistency, grind with sugar and vanilla. Add eggs and mix. Sift the flour using a sieve, mix with starch, salt and baking powder. Add in parts, mixing well, into the mixture of eggs and butter. Add milk and mix well again.

Divide the dough into 2 parts, add cocoa powder to one of them, stir the cocoa. First place the dough without cocoa into the cake pan, and place the dark dough on top. Use a spoon to gently move it around once to make the cake flaky. Place the cake pan with the cake batter in the oven and bake at 180 degrees for 1 hour.

At the end of baking the cupcake, prepare the glaze: mix chocolate with powdered sugar, milk and starch, put on low heat, heat, pour glaze on top of the cupcake.

If you are going to serve homemade cupcakes to the holiday table, keep in mind that it is recommended to do this in paper forms. The original packaging not only looks very unusual, especially when chosen in a party style, but also allows you to avoid getting your hands dirty while eating. The cost of muffin tins is low, and such packaging does not affect the baking time in the oven, so you can safely buy a paper wrapper and start baking the products. It remains only to clarify a few points: do you need to grease the pan before baking and how much dough to pour into it? You will find answers to these questions in our article.

What types of muffin tins are there, and do they need to be greased?

Paper baking pans have numerous benefits. Firstly, using them allows you to keep your dishes clean - you don’t have to waste your free time cleaning the metal mold. Secondly, your hands remain clean while eating. Thirdly, they are inexpensive, every housewife can afford to buy them. But such forms have a significant drawback. The fact is that thin parchment cannot withstand the mass of dough and begins to deform. As a result, the products become like flat cakes. To avoid this? Cupcakes should be baked in metal molds, after placing paper ones in them.

There are different types of muffin tins on sale:

• from parchment for baking;
• from laminated paper;
• from corrugated paper;
• made of thick cardboard;
• with side;
• with reinforced edge;
• with lace and others.

The choice of a specific form depends on the solemnity of the event for which the baked goods are being prepared. Lace will look delicate and elegant on a wedding table, and ordinary parchment will also be suitable for home tea drinking. Housewives often have a question: should they grease paper muffin tins or not? Additionally, such forms do not need to be lubricated with anything, since they are made of special oiled paper. Thanks to this, the finished product does not stick to it.

How to make your own muffin tins

If you forgot to buy paper forms, and the dough for cupcakes is already ready, you can make them yourself in just 5 minutes. To do this you will need baking parchment, a compass, a simple pencil, metal muffin tins and an ordinary glass.

First of all, you need to measure the diameter of the metal muffin tin with a compass. To the obtained result you need to add 2 cm (bottom diameter). Then use a compass to draw a circle on the parchment. To make several shapes at once, you need to fold the paper in three, then cut out several circles according to the template.

To make a real paper muffin pan, you need to soak each circle in water and place it between two metal pans. Wait a few minutes for the paper to dry and then begin the baking process.

Paper muffin tins: how to use

So, you have ready-made paper molds, but you don’t know how much dough to pour into them to make delicious cupcakes? Everything is much simpler than it seems at first glance. You can learn how to bake cupcakes in paper molds from the following step-by-step instructions:

1. Buy cupcake liners that match your party theme, or make your own from parchment paper.
2. Place each mold in special recesses in a baking sheet or in metal cupcakes.
3. Fill the molds with dough. If you want the products to be tall, pour ¾ of the dough volume, but if you want them to be shorter, pour no more than half.
4. Bake the cupcakes according to the recipe in a preheated oven.

If you don't have a special tray with indentations, you can only use molds.

Cupcakes in paper form in the oven

There are a large number of muffin recipes: from simple to complex, with raisins, dried apricots, prunes, chocolate and others. We offer to prepare the simplest, most inexpensive, but no less tasty of all.

According to the recipe, you need to beat two eggs with sugar (100 g) until fluffy foam is obtained. Next, sour cream (3 tablespoons) or the same amount of mayonnaise, a pinch of salt, soda (½ teaspoon), a few drops of lemon juice, softened margarine (one hundred grams) and flour (one glass) are added to the dough. The consistency of the dough should resemble thick sour cream.

To cook in the oven you will need a paper muffin pan. To do this, spread it on a baking sheet, and put the required amount of dough inside. Cupcakes are baked at 210° for twenty minutes.

Chocolate cupcakes

Using this recipe, you can prepare delicious and fragrant muffins in a short time and without much hassle.

The cooking sequence will be as follows:

1. Sift flour and sugar (2 tbsp each), cocoa powder (1 tbsp), soda (2 tsp), baking powder and salt (1 tsp) into a deep bowl.
2. Add 2 eggs to the dry ingredients, as well as a glass of water and kefir, vegetable or melted butter (½ tbsp.).
3. Preheat the oven to 180°.
4. Place paper muffin tins in metal cupcake tins. Pour the batter inside.
5. Place the cupcakes in the hot oven for 25 minutes.

If desired, you can decorate the cooled products with cream cheese cream or Swiss meringue.

Cupcakes in a slow cooker

Not everyone has an oven in their kitchen. Many people prefer to use a multicooker for preparing main dishes and baking. To bake muffins in this kitchen aid, it is recommended to use a paper muffin tin. To prepare the dough, you can use one of the recipes suggested above.

Place muffin tins in the multicooker bowl (put several pieces of paper into one so that the tin becomes denser and does not deform). Spoon out the dough - no more than ¾ of the mold's volume. Close the multicooker lid and set the “Bake” mode for 45 minutes. Let the cakes sit in the bowl for another 10 minutes after finishing cooking. Open the multicooker lid and place the muffins on a plate.

Microwave cupcake recipe

Do you want to make delicious and aromatic muffins for breakfast? You can do this in just 5 minutes if you have a microwave in your house. Cupcakes are prepared in ceramic cups or glasses, and to make them easier to get out, it is recommended to use paper forms.

To prepare dough for 4 servings you will need: flour (4 tablespoons), condensed milk, cocoa powder, vegetable oil (2 tablespoons each), milk (3 tablespoons), vanillin and 1 egg. All ingredients are mixed with a fork until a homogeneous consistency is obtained and placed in paper muffin tins. In a microwave with a power of 800 W, food is cooked in just 4 minutes. After this they can be served for breakfast. Regular muffins without cocoa are prepared in a similar way. To do this, replace the amount of cocoa powder indicated in the recipe with flour.

Have you decided to bake a cupcake today and don’t know how to do everything correctly? The technology is very easy to learn. It is enough to follow the recommendations, and when all the steps are perfected, it is possible that you yourself will develop a recipe for a delicious dessert. The dough used for this baking can be used as the basis for a cake for any occasion. It will be enough to cool the cake, cut and decorate. On weekdays it is perfect for family tea. Lush pastries are very popular with young children and adults. Read the article to the end. There will be tips that will definitely come in handy.

The simplest option

This recipe requires common ingredients that are often readily available in any refrigerator. You can choose any form for baking: buy a special shaped one in the store, take a bread pan, or use a frying pan. Now let's look at how to bake a cupcake in the oven.

• a pack (180 g) of butter margarine;
• 1 cup granulated sugar;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 250 ml kefir (can be replaced with sour cream or yogurt);
• a little soda or a bag (10 g) of baking powder;
• 350 g flour;
• vanillin for flavoring on the tip of a knife.

So, you should decide whether to use a mixer or not. It’s just that the whipped mass will turn out more fluffy and won’t burst much during baking. But in the absence, the taste will not suffer. Here we will look at the option with an electrical device.

Pour kefir into a separate bowl, in which we extinguish the soda (bubbles should appear). At this time, begin to beat margarine and sugar. When the mass increases in volume and becomes lighter, reduce the speed and break the eggs into a cup. After 2 minutes, add the prepared dairy product. Knead a little and remove the mixer.

To bake a cake as in the photo (lush), then, after adding flour, use a spoon to combine the ingredients. We grease the mold, you can also sprinkle it with semolina to make it easier to remove. Pour the mass here. Bake in the oven at 180°C for about 40 minutes, checking with a match or toothpick.

Chocolate and fruit cupcakes

Using the first simple baking option, slightly changing the amount of ingredients and adding new ones, you can achieve a completely different taste.

For the chocolate version you need to change the composition a little. To do this, after adding kefir or sour cream, first pour the required amount of cocoa powder into the egg-butter mixture until the desired color is obtained. Next, remove from the prepared flour exactly as many spoons as you add to the chocolate mixture. This is necessary so as not to tighten the dough. It is better to decorate with glaze.

How to bake at home There is no need to change the composition here. Just prepare additional apples, pears, peaches or any others. To do this, wash them, remove the seeds and cut into small pieces. Mix with prepared dough. Bake as usual.

"Fairy tale"

Let's use the first test option again. But here you will need:

• 100 g raisins;
• 80 g poppy seeds;
• 100 g ground walnuts.

Divide the finished dough into three cups, adding one of the fillings to each cup. After thoroughly kneading, first place the layer of raisins in the pan and level it out. Then spread the layer of nuts evenly. The last one will be the poppy seed mixture. Let's bake.

Classic cottage cheese in a slow cooker

The recipes are given using various devices specifically so that you know how to bake cupcakes at home, using not only the oven. But the entire recipe for preparing the dough is suitable for her.

Products:

• 2.5 faceted glasses of flour;
• ½ cup light or dark raisins;
• 4 eggs;
• 400 g fat cottage cheese;
• 200 g butter at room temperature;
• 250 g sugar;
• 1.5 tsp. apple cider vinegar;
• 1 tsp. baking soda.

First, wash the raisins well and soak in hot water.

Just as in the first recipe, beat the granulated sugar with butter and add 1 egg at a time so that the mixture does not splatter too much when the mixer is running. Pour the cottage cheese into it and mix everything well.

Add flour and soda slaked with apple cider vinegar. Bring to a homogeneous consistency along with raisins, which for ease of use were dried and rolled in flour.

Grease the multicooker bowl with vegetable oil, lay out the dough, distributing it evenly. Close the lid, set the “Baking” mode, increase the time, it should be 80 minutes. After the signal, turn the cake over and fry the top in the “Multi-cooker” mode for another 5 minutes.

Muffins

Before we tell you how to bake a cupcake in the oven at home, let’s immediately talk about the molds. The most convenient option is to buy silicone ones in the store. They are convenient because baked goods do not stick to them and they are reusable. If you purchased paper ones, then prepare iron ones, which will help keep the muffins in the desired shape.

To get 20 pieces, buy:

• flour - 0.6 kilograms;
• a glass of yogurt;
• sugar - 0.2 kilograms;
• 2 eggs;
• baking powder - 10 grams;
• an incomplete glass of vegetable oil;
• jam or jam.

This recipe does not use a mixer because the small size of the muffins may result in dry and hard muffins.

So, in a bowl, mix the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder and granulated sugar. In a separate deep bowl - yogurt, eggs and vegetable oil. Now we combine everything with a large spoon.

There are three options for filling out the forms:

1. Cover the bottom with dough, make a small indentation with a spoon or finger, which we fill with jam or preserves. Cover the top with dough.
2. Take a plastic bag, fill it with filling and make a hole in one corner. Place the dough on 2/3 of the mold, pierce it with a bag, squeeze out the required amount of content.
3. Using a pastry bag, place dough into each mold. Inserting the tip of the cornet into the mixture, squeeze out a little of the filling.

Bake the cupcakes in the oven. At home, write down the recipe in a separate book. Everyone will be happy to have tea with such a golden brown crust and delicious jam.

Cupcake with mayonnaise

Product calculation:

• 2 cups flour (bread flour is better);
• 3 chicken eggs;
• a glass of high-fat mayonnaise;
• 80 g sour cream;
• cocoa powder 2 tablespoons;
• 250 g sugar;
• teaspoon soda.

You should also like preparing muffins using mayonnaise:

1. Using a whisk or mixer, beat the eggs and sugar until foamy.
2. We extinguish the soda in sour cream and mix it with the mayonnaise into the whipped mass.
3. Sift the flour and add to a common cup.
4. Divide the finished dough into two equal parts, into one of which you need to pour cocoa powder.
5. Alternately place one teaspoon of one and the other mixture into the molds.
6. Bake for no longer than 20 minutes.

That's it, the striped muffins are ready.

If you don’t have time to prepare baked goods on time, then a bread machine will always help out. When such a gadget is in the kitchen, the housewife can always serve fresh bread or, as in our case, dessert to the table. Try baking a cupcake like in the photo.

We will prepare the following products:

• 200 g granulated sugar;
• 330 g baking flour;
• salt ½ teaspoon;
• zest of a large lemon;
• 80 g butter;
• baking powder 2/5 teaspoon.

• 1 tablespoon lemon juice;
• powdered sugar - ½ cup;

Using a mixer, bring the mixture of eggs and sugar to a thick foam. Melt the butter and add the lemon zest to the whipped mixture. Pour everything into the bread machine container. Pour flour on top, mixed in advance with baking powder.

There is no need to combine ingredients anymore. Close the lid and set it to mode No. 9, which is responsible for the quality of lemon cake baking in the Moulinex gadget. If you have a different model, please read the instructions.

After the signal, take out the container and place it on a wet cloth. After 5 minutes, the baked goods will be easy to remove. During this time, make the glaze by grinding the necessary ingredients. Serve over warm dessert. Let cool completely and serve.

Banana flavored muffins in the microwave

Now read how you can bake cupcakes in molds that you need to purchase in advance.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup each (grind the fruit in a blender) and flour;
• 50 g butter;
• half a glass of milk;
• on the tip of a knife soda, the same amount of baking powder;
• a handful of chocolate chips;
• ½ can of condensed milk.

This quantity should make 10 pieces.

Melt the butter in one cup and mix well. When the mixture has cooled slightly, pour in the banana puree and milk. The color may change and become darker. Don't be alarmed.

Add flour, which has been previously combined with baking powder, chocolate and soda. Mix everything with a spoon. We put paper linings in the mold, which we fill with dough. The cupcakes are baked for about two minutes.

1. This pastry can be of any shape.
2. In order not to distract from the taste of such baked goods, decorate the top only with icing and powdered sugar.
3. Do you want the dessert to remain in the desired shape? Then take it out cold.
4. Use a variety of toppings.
5. To make the top less likely to burst, let it stand for a little while in the open oven until the dough spreads.
6. Check with a toothpick for doneness, as the crust of such baked goods is deceptive.

There are many more different recipes. Each country has its own options. Step-by-step recipes on how to bake cupcakes at home will help you cope with the task. Mexicans even have cupcakes with pepper. But everything has its time. Start with simple ones, then make adjustments to achieve your favorite taste.

Cupcake is a very convenient option for a homemade dessert; it is prepared quickly and easily; even a beginner can make dough for a cupcake, and for any type of cake. And by adding different ingredients, you can prepare new baked goods every time.

The simplest cake in the oven is prepared according to the following procedure: beat eggs and sugar with either a mixer or a fork, add sour cream. The soda needs to be quenched with vinegar and poured into the total mass, then quickly stir. Cut the butter into small pieces, melt and pour into the dough, then mix again. Slowly add flour, stirring constantly, until smooth. Place the dough into molds and bake in the oven. The cake in the oven in molds turns out beautiful, portioned, and very convenient for serving.

And then - your experiments. For example, add cocoa powder to the dough and you will get a wonderful chocolate cake in the oven. If you divide the dough into two parts and add cocoa to only one of them, you can bake a Zebra cake or a marble cake. By pouring fresh berries into the dough, we get various options for homemade muffins in the oven with currants or cherries, etc. In winter, you can make a cake in the oven with raisins or nuts. There are also options for cottage cheese muffins in the oven, kefir muffins in the oven, etc.

Cupcakes from any dough are baked for about 35 minutes at a temperature of 200 degrees. However, since each oven has its own parameters, you need to look at the cake and try it “to see if it’s done.”

It is difficult to recommend a recipe for a cake in the oven; you need to choose for yourself, there are many of them. In any case, it is recommended to choose your option based on the photo. You should definitely try making the cake in the oven, the recipe with the photo of which you liked the most, you will succeed. Any homemade cake recipe in the oven is simple, and the result is excellent. The recipe for cottage cheese muffins in the oven is perhaps more suitable for children's and diet food, although everyone eats it with pleasure.

The most popular among cupcakes are biscuit ones, for which we will give several recommendations:

To prepare biscuit dough for muffins, vegetable oil or margarine is better;

Instead of baking powder or baking powder, you can use soda slaked with vinegar or citric acid;

It is better to make muffins not flat, but voluminous, with pulp;

Silicone muffin tins should be greased with vegetable oil or butter;

Since muffins increase in size during baking, you need to fill the molds to two-thirds of their volume;

In the oven, it is advisable to place the muffins on higher shelves, where they are better baked evenly;

Raisins, dried apricots, and prunes prepared for adding to the dough should be washed and dried; large ones should be cut and soaked in water for 20 minutes;

Cupcakes without filling can be stored for a long time, incl. and in the refrigerator. The presence of any filling significantly reduces the shelf life of products;

Yeast, kefir, and cottage cheese muffins have their own nuances and tips; study the recipes carefully.