by Texas Homesteader ~
You’re baking cupcakes or muffins, still have batter & need more muffin cup spaces.
No worries! I used canning rings and paper or silicone cupcake liners to expand the capacity of my muffin tin. That way I could bake all the batter into muffins at one time. What a helpful Homestead Hack.
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Making Homemade Blueberry Muffins
I was baking homemade blueberry muffins to take with us on a Sibling Vacation recently. I typically make jumbo-sized muffins for RancherMan.
But this time instead of my *Jumbo Muffin Pan I used my *Regular Muffin Pan because there would be several of us in attendance. It’s easier to eat two small muffins than to waste part of a larger one, ya know?
Need More Cupcake Holders Than Muffin Tin Has
So I whipped up my Blueberry Muffin batter, placed my silicone muffin pan on a cookie sheet & filled the cups. But there was still about 4 muffin’s worth of batter remaining.
Do I overfill the existing muffin cups? Do I bake this dozen and then refill 4 of the muffin cups and bake them separately? What a waste! Ugh, what’s a girl to do?
Canning Jar Rings For Muffin Paper Holders!
I needed more muffin cups so I pulled out 4 wide-mouth canning jar rings and placed them along the edge of my baking sheet next to my muffin pan, screw-side-down. Then I slid a paper liner into each one and added my batter.
Those extra muffins baked up right alongside the others – no extra kitchen time needed for the leftover batter!
Do You Use A Regular or Wide Mouth Canning Ring For Muffins?
You may wonder: Do you use a regular or wide-mouth canning ring for your muffins? Well the answer is, it depends!
I experimented with the regular mouth vs the wide mouth sized rings. Both were appropriate depending upon the cupcake paper or cup you want to use.
Using Regular-Size Canning Rings For Muffin Liners
Regular-Size Canning Rings: When making muffins using my *Reusable Silicone Muffin Liners, the regular sized canning ring worked better. That’s because the sides of the silicone liners were a little more rigid & held their own shape.
And I didn’t use a muffin pan at all, I simply substituted a baking sheet with a silicone mat & used all canning rings to hold the liners instead.
Using Wide-Mouth Canning Rings For Muffin Papers
Wide-Mouth Canning Rings: When I used cupcake papers the regular mouth size lid seemed to squeeze the cupcake papers a little too much. For using cupcake papers the wide mouth rings seemed to be about right for me.
Note About Using Paper Cupcake Liners With Canning Rings
Keep in mind that unlike a muffin tin or reusable silicone liners, using canning rings with cupcake liner papers means the tops of the papers are not supported.
So the paper liners in canning rings did spread a little more on the top than the muffins baked in the muffin tin or in silicone liners. But the difference was negligible.
I left a small space between the canning-ring muffins in paper liners so they didn’t spread too much to end up baking into each other.
So depending on what you’re using to hold your muffin or cupcake batter, check out the wide mouth vs. regular size canning lids. Both work great.
#UseWhatchaGot!
~TxH~
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Great idea. I wonder if you could stack two to keep them from spreading?
Hummm… Not sure Sheryl but that’s a great idea. I really didn’t think they would spread much at all, as the muffin papers were pretty wedged in. But they did end up spreading a little. Not too noticeable I guess. Just wanted to warn folks in case they were trying to make perfect muffins. 🙂 ~TxH~
What a great idea! My blueberry muffin recipe also has excess batter that I never know what to do with. I’m definitely trying this next time!
It’s so hard to know what to do with ‘just a little bit’ of leftover batter, Pam. I usually divided it up into the existing muffin cups. But it always overfilled them & makes the muffins ugly when they’re baked. Now I just make more muffins! 🙂 ~TxH~
Great thinking there Tammy.
I use the wide mouth rings sometimes for frying an egg when I make my sausage, egg, cheese biscuit breakfast sandwiches. The rings also work great for making mini pies.
I’ve seen little pies made in canning jar rings before Colleen – so cute!! ~TxH~