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Step 1
Mix According to Directions and try baking by one of the two methods as noted below...
Via Pinterest... Fill liners 3/4 full. Bake at 350 until dome is set?, and reduce temperature to 325. Baked 25 minutes...
Method 2 via ladolcevita...
I posted exactly this question on the Chowhound board about two years ago, and got an excellent solution.
Here is what works: Bake the cupcakes at a higher temperature at the beginning. I just made cupcakes this weekend, using the banana cake recipe from Beranbaum's Cake Bible. I preheated the oven to 375 degrees, on the convection cycle. (If you don't have convection, you might need to do it on 400 degrees.) Then, after about 7 minutes, when the tops got puffy and started to set, I finished the baking on 325 degrees, with convection (or 350 degrees with no convection). My cupcakes had a nice dome on them. I also like to fill the cupcake pans closer to the 3/4 mark--I find this produces optimal puffiness with the bakeware I use. I use a liner, by the way, sprayed with a bit of Pam.
I find that this initial-higher-temperature technique works with all of the cake recipes I have tried so far--and I have tried a number of them. These are the very recipes that will produce a flatter-topped cake when baked in a regular 9-inch cake pan at 350 degrees.
I'm sorry to contradict some of the other suggestions, but I don't recommend that you increase the baking powder--I tried that once and got a not-so-good tasting cupcake with an unattractive top.
Try this techique and let me know if it works for you. It certainly works for me, and I hope you have success with it, too.
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By La Dolce Vita on May 31, 2005 11:45 P
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