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 muffin 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’d read this before but this is the first time I’d actually attempted it.

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 muffin 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 muffin 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 pan 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 muffin papers the regular mouth size seemed to squeeze the muffin papers a little too much. For using muffin 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 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 & bake 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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• *Reusable Silicone Cupcake Liners
• *Jumbo Muffin Pan
• *Regular Muffin Pan
• Sibling Vacation In Broken Bow, OK
• Blueberry Muffin Recipe

 

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