Cup Cake Top Moulds
Many cake decorators enjoy making and decorating cup cakes – the latest cake fashion. But – when the order comes in for 100 – you realize that’s a lot of baking, icing, and flower making etc. Our new moulds help you by doing several jobs in one go. By using our moulds, you have the decorated cup cake top in one easy action.
I have recently discovered an excellent sugarpaste that works perfectly with our cup cake top moulds.
Ballina sugarpaste has ideal qualities: firm but easy handling, wonderful taste and sweet aroma, and best of all – unlike other sugarpastes, stays soft on your cup cakes for eating!
We now stock both Ballina Sugarpaste for our cup cake moulds and covering cakes, and Ballina modeling paste easy to use with our other moulds and for modeling figures.
Each pack of sugarpaste will cover approximately 17 cup cake tops using our moulds. Other sugarpastes can be used – but only if firm – too soft and it will stick or distort when removing from the mould.
If you do not want to use the Ballina Sugarpaste, you can use a firm sugarpaste – add some flower paste (as little as possible) until easy to use. Because you are decorating cakes with a shorter shelf life, you do not want the icing too dry too hard before eating.
How to use the moulds.
- Spread a little apricot jam or buttercream on top of cake.
- Dust mould with cornflour, turn over and tap out excess.
- Knead approximately 30g of modelling paste into a smooth ball. Press into mould firmly in the centre to get the fine detail and then press out to edges of mould. Turn over and flex slightly to remove.
- Place icing on top of cup cake. Rub dust colours into brushes on kitchen paper so there is no loose powder. Colour as required.
IDEAS
Each mould can be used without the cake top part – ie you can mould just the rose from the cup cake rose mould and use to decorate larger cakes.
Add your own finishing touches, butterflies, blossoms, piped dots etc to vary the designs.
See close up pictures of these cakes in the gallery on the left.
Piped swirl cup cake top can be decorated in many ways or left plain
Use our other moulds to decorate cup cake tops.
Ready baked cup cakes are available mail order from
Sweet Success,
Unit 7 Gauntley Court, Ward St, Nottingham, NG7 5HD.
Tel : 0115 845 0660
The Cup Cakes.
For my cup cakes I have used a basic sponge recipe:
2 eggs, 100g each of self raising flour, castor sugar, soft margarine.
Beat together in a food mixer / processor until light and fluffy.
Place cake cases in baking tins (I have used Wilton silver or gold cake cases 2in diameter across base from Knightsbridge PME).
Depending on which cake tray you use ie muffin tins will give you different width cakes across the tops
Bake in a pre-heated oven gas no.6 or electric 200 degrees for approximately 20 minutes. Check after 10 minutes and if cakes look as though they are rising too quickly, lower the temperature slightly and bake a little longer.
Remove from oven and cool. If tops of cakes are too high, they can be trimmed before decorating.
