Am I the only one who… (cupcake rant)

[Anonymous]

Never gets 24 cupcakes out of a box cake mix? I don’t understand! The mix makes a 9x13 no problem… i don’t think I’m overfilling! This last batch I got 20- barely.

I realize this makes me sound really old and crotchety. A box cake mix? Complaint? Haha.

[Anonymous]

Is life 2 tbs of cake mix per cupcake. I use a small cookie scoop to dish the batter into the cupcake liners

[Anonymous]

It's so much easier to make a layer cake than cupcakes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's so much easier to make a layer cake than cupcakes.

Agree! And I prefer it! But my kid wanted cupcakes.

[Anonymous]

The box I made today said it makes 22 cupcakes at 3 tablespoons a cupcake.

The problem you’re experiencing is “shrinkflation” where the box was 12 servings a few years ago but is now only 10 servings. But the same price or higher.

[Anonymous]

You can get 24 out of the box -- you are overfilling. I think the huge size of bakery/store/coffeeshop cupcakes and muffins has damaged our ability to understand this.

[Anonymous]

I am having the same problem with Jiffy corn muffin mix. It used to easily make six muffins, and now it makes five muffins and one sad little tablespoon of batter. It drives me crazy!

[Anonymous]

I prefer to make bigger cupcakes (they’re not enormous but fill the tin) To get the count on the box they end up pretty wimpy.

[Anonymous]

Your post has made me realize that I have somehow never baked cupcakes (from a mix or otherwise). Probably because it seems annoying to measure them all out!

[Anonymous]

I think it theoretically makes enough, in a perfect physics world - with zero waste in the bowl, on the whisk, on the spoon, etc. That is impossible, so you end up having less batter than the box tells you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's so much easier to make a layer cake than cupcakes.

Agree! And I prefer it! But my kid wanted cupcakes.

It’s box mix, and it was just for your own kids. I wouldn’t care if it made 24 or 19.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am having the same problem with Jiffy corn muffin mix. It used to easily make six muffins, and now it makes five muffins and one sad little tablespoon of batter. It drives me crazy!

Good use case for a kitchen scale. Weigh the batter (by weighing the bowl with batter, and subtracting the weight of the empty bowl), divide it by the number of cupcakes you want, and use the scale to weigh out the batter for each cupcake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never gets 24 cupcakes out of a box cake mix? I don’t understand! The mix makes a 9x13 no problem… i don’t think I’m overfilling! This last batch I got 20- barely.

I realize this makes me sound really old and crotchety. A box cake mix? Complaint? Haha.

Stop eating the damn batter we know you did and do that's why you can't reach 24.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Your post has made me realize that I have somehow never baked cupcakes (from a mix or otherwise). Probably because it seems annoying to measure them all out!

Because you are trying to be "perfect." No need to make each one filled the same amount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am having the same problem with Jiffy corn muffin mix. It used to easily make six muffins, and now it makes five muffins and one sad little tablespoon of batter. It drives me crazy!

Good use case for a kitchen scale. Weigh the batter (by weighing the bowl with batter, and subtracting the weight of the empty bowl), divide it by the number of cupcakes you want, and use the scale to weigh out the batter for each cupcake.

and you can use a reverse tare for the weighing of the batter. Keep the bowl on the scale and scoop out enough to make the total reduce by the weight you are targeting.