The Benefits of Silicon Tins for Pumpkin Spiced Cupcakes

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Georgette Rampone with Expert Village. Today we're making pumpkin spice cupcakes with vanilla bean cream cheese icing. I wanted to introduce to you a new kind of tin that's on the market. As you know, they have metal tins, cupcake tin, and glass ones. If you have no choice, then you can use the metal ones. I would not suggest the glass ones, as they retain the heat and often will burn the edges of your cupcakes. It's a new kind of muffin tin on the market that is a terrific invention. It's also made of silicon. The same silicon that's in the rubber spatulas that I just showed you. The nice thing about it is that it's flexible, so after your cupcakes have cooled, you can let them cool right in the tin. After they've cooled, you can just pop them right out. It helps to release the cupcake. I love silicon for the cupcakes. It's wonderful for that. I don't suggest the silicon baking pans if you're doing a cake though. They seem to retain the moisture and make a soggy cake, but for this application this is terrific. The one thing I would suggest is getting a tin that has metal on the outside. That way you don't have a floppy tin and it’s lot easier to maneuver them. Either way, I always put my tin on top of a baking sheet to stabilize it. It just makes it a lot easier going in and out of the oven."