Mini Christmas Cakes In Muffin Tins

Fill paper lined miniature muffin cups almost full.

Mini christmas cakes in muffin tins.

They look festive on a decorative tray wrapped in red or green cellophane or tucked into a giveaway cookie plate. Next challenge is to decorate them. Recipe 1kg of fruit. The cuteast little bite sized cakes.

Cover and leave in a cool place for up to 2 days though at least overnight. Soak overnight in 2 cups juice i used gingerale and 30ml brandy. When cooked remove muffin tins from the oven remove cakes in their papers from muffin tins and cool on racks. The paper peels off the frozen cakes easily.

This plumps up the fruit to make the muffins deliciously moist. I made the 3 ingred. Bake for 45 minutes or until cakes are firm. This delicious moist cake mix is perfect for a large family sized christmas cake double the mixture to make 2 medium sized christmas cakes 20cm or 1 large deep 26cm 1 very small 10cm christmas cake.

Makes 16 regular muffin sized cakes or 12 texas muffin sized cakes. Brush the top of each cake with half of the apricot. While still hot splash cakes with a capful of extra brandy. If you want to serve individual cakes use larger muffin tins skip the crumbs and freeze the cakes until serving.

Add 2 cups self raising flour mix into fruit 1 2cup at a time. Then topped half with cherry pie filling and half with semi sweet melted chocolate. Recipe yesterday ad baked them in mini muffin tins. Triple line the sides of cake tin with baking paper ensure it.

Divide the cake batter evenly between the cups of the tin and bake on a low shelf for about 25 minutes or until well risen golden brown and a skewer inserted into the centres comes out clean. Put 8 paper or foil muffin cases into a muffin tin. What size tin cans should i use for mini cakes. I did bake about 8 minutes longer the suggested time.

To decorate dust icing with a little icing sugar and roll out to 3mm thick. Cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. Bake at 325 for 22 24 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Preheat the oven to 160 c fan oven 140 c gas mark 3.

Spoon into 6 x 1 cup capacity 250ml non stick muffin tins. Bake in batches if necessary at 150 c 300 f for about 40 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of a cake comes out clean. Cut into star shapes using a cutter and place on top of cakes before serving. I used small 200g sized tins for my christmas cakes but you can use 400g tins instead if this is what you have.

I also sprayed the liners lightly for easy removal.