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Make Your Own Muffin or Cupcake Moulds at Home ~ Quick Tips

November 24, 2015 33 Comments

Learn how to make your own muffin or cupcake tray at home using readily available utensils
Baking can seem a daunting thing when you are just starting out and realise you need different types of baking trays to get started making cupcakes and muffins. It’s often not a great idea to go out and buy everything you see or feel you need especially if you are just trying your hand at baking and may not even end up liking it that much (although that’s hard for me to imagine!). That’s why learning how to make some basic bakeware at home really helps. So here’s how you can improvise and make your own cupcake tray using an Indian spice box and small cups inside. 

Make your own muffin / cupcake cups

All of us have to start baking at some point in our lives. I started when I was 10 because I have a mom who baked a lot. Even then, we had just 2 cake trays – one was round and the other was heart-shaped. We had no cupcake trays so we never baked cupcakes.
But, that really shouldn’t stop you. Here’s a quick tip on how to bake cupcakes with no cupcake moulds using your Indian spice box – or masala dabba as we call it back home.

– Take out the individual holders inside and clean it if you were using it for your spices

– Dry well with a clean kitchen towel

– LIne evenly with aluminium foil (this is for even baking)

That’s it! Pour your batter 3/4 of the way and play on a baking tray in the oven. You will get perfectly shaped cupcakes of the same size each time and you don’t have to spend on an extra cupcake tray unless you bake very often.

Make your own muffin / cupcake cups

My sis and I also did this for the perfect pound cake we baked when back in Kottayam. We I mentioned, our mom only has 2 trays and both were too big for the amount of batter we had so we improved by using the masala dabba container. We removed the smaller containers from inside), lined it with aluminium foil, and baked as normal.

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  1. Spurti

    October 16, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    can i use brass mould as i hve brass masala dabba.

    Reply
    • nags

      October 28, 2020 at 6:48 am

      can brass be steamed safely? i am not 100% sure

      Reply
  2. himabindu

    December 12, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    Where can I find aluminum cups? Please help,I have been looking since long.

    Reply
    • nags

      December 13, 2015 at 7:15 pm

      hi, that’s hard to answer without knowing where you live, etc. usually, you can find them in utensil stores. it doesn’t need to be aluminium, steel is fine too

      Reply
  3. Garima

    February 20, 2013 at 9:39 pm

    Hey..thanks a lot for this awesome tip

    Reply
  4. chennaispice

    July 5, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    What a smart idea! Thanks.

    Reply
  5. runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com

    July 2, 2012 at 2:51 pm

    Loved the idea…. I can have real large muffins now 🙂

    Reply
  6. Corporate to Kitchen

    July 2, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    Grt Idea! I use Idli cups to make cup cakes.

    Reply
  7. Archana

    June 30, 2012 at 4:28 pm

    Lovely idea. Thanks.

    Reply
  8. Hema

    June 30, 2012 at 10:48 am

    That's a wonderful idea, now you can have a cake of any shape, just cover any container with aluminium foil and use it..

    Reply
  9. Raksha

    June 30, 2012 at 6:57 am

    Hey this is a nice idea. But can we use aliminium wraps in convection mode?

    Reply
    • Nagalakshmi V

      November 20, 2012 at 2:15 am

      if you can use aluminium trays in convection oven (which I think you can) I think it's fine to use foil as well.

      Reply
  10. Shabitha Karthikeyan

    June 30, 2012 at 2:46 am

    Wonderful idea !!!

    Reply
  11. Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi

    June 30, 2012 at 1:46 am

    Very interesting. Is it because of the aluminium foil wrapping that it is safe to use stainless steel cups in the oven?

    Reply
    • Nagalakshmi V

      November 20, 2012 at 2:15 am

      steel is oven-safe even otherwise, as long as it's thick enough.

      Reply
  12. postmormon girl

    June 29, 2012 at 8:24 pm

    That's a use for your spice box that I've never seen before – but I guess it beats buying something that you would only use once a year.

    Reply
  13. dassana

    June 29, 2012 at 6:34 pm

    sometimes i lurk on your site and find such helpful posts.

    this time i have to comment as this post has saved me a great deal of time.

    i do have a cup cake tray but it is small and the cake batter is always double. so i always have to wait till the cup cakes are baked and then again bake them spending so much time always.

    thanks nags for this post and looking forward to more.

    Reply
  14. Spandana

    June 29, 2012 at 6:18 pm

    Hey Nags, Can we put steel containers in oven? I was not sure.

    Reply
  15. anitha santosh

    June 29, 2012 at 6:00 pm

    suparb idia just last week i hd been to my moms house she said me to take masala box sum how hury i came back home, again i wount for get thanks good tip

    Reply
  16. priya

    June 29, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    wow….!!!!!!Really great idea 🙂

    Reply
  17. Priya

    June 29, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    Thats really interesting, never thought of using this.

    Reply
  18. notyet100

    June 29, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    WOw that's so nice,:)

    Reply
  19. Divya Kudua

    June 29, 2012 at 2:27 pm

    Good idea,I am always apprehensive to put in steel trays in my oven.I remember someone mentioning to me to use steel trays to make swiss rolls!!

    Reply
  20. ramya anand

    June 29, 2012 at 8:15 pm

    Nice idea!

    Reply
  21. malvecka

    June 29, 2012 at 11:21 am

    Hi Nags, ur idea is simply brilliant….!!I have a small query: Is it safe to use steel utensils in a convection microwv?? I hv a LG Convection MW & luv cupcakes awesomely, so will it be ok to try this?

    Reply
    • Vidya Lohith

      November 19, 2012 at 11:32 am

      Hi, I have the same query..Please let me know..

      Reply
    • Nagalakshmi V

      November 20, 2012 at 2:16 am

      i am not 100% sure of this since i don't use a convection oven. check with your manufacturer or retailer, maybe?

      Reply
  22. Arch

    June 29, 2012 at 10:31 am

    What a cool idea, never thought of it…I used to steam idlis in these sized katoris before I bought my idli moulds…

    Reply
  23. PJ

    June 29, 2012 at 10:12 am

    What a timely post! I was going to buy a muffin tray this week end.I have been usingmom's cup cake molds that comes with the cake cooker[done on the stove top] and they were tiny..Yayyy!Now I don't have to buy a muffin tray.Will do this your method.
    Thanks for the tip 🙂

    Reply
    • Daksha

      April 3, 2016 at 6:19 pm

      Can I use steel containers wrapped with aluminium foil and make it in normal cooker

      Reply
      • nags

        April 4, 2016 at 2:34 pm

        yes you can

        Reply
        • kajal

          September 14, 2016 at 1:28 pm

          Hello nags…….can you tell me what can be used instead of aluminum foil?

          Reply
          • nags

            September 15, 2016 at 1:20 pm

            maybe butter paper? It’s not easy to manipulate like foil though.

            Reply

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