Hi,

Any tips for pouring cupcake batter evenly into liners. Some of my batters are very very thin and I end up spilling lots all over the tins.

Thanks

You could try pouring it into a plastic squeeze bottle and filling the tins with the bottle. I use a cookie scooper, but my batter is a bit thick.

I pore my thin batter into a liquid measuring cup. Then as I pour into the liners, I do a count. 1, 2, 3, and 4, (pull up on 4) that is usually about right. That is a hold over talent from my previous life as a bartender!!!! Every liquid pour is a count to me.

If you can't figure out the count thing you could still use a measuring cup to help with the spills.

HTH.

For thin batter, I have a pancake batter dispenser:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000U6AXDI/?tag=cakecentral-20



$11 on Amazon!

I use an ice cream scoop to fill my cups so they are filled evenly.

You can also try filling a 16' or bigger decorating bag and cut a smallish hole (for thinner batters) and squeeze fill them.

Portion scoop here, too.

I use a scoop also that way I know they're even.

Wow that was fast! Thanks for all the replies. I will try those ideas out.

I can only use a scoop for my muffins batters which are thicker.

I use an ice cream scoop...works great!!!

I use an ice cream scoop as well! Works great for both thin and thick batters - at least to me. I would imagine if a a batter was too thin though, a squeeze bottle would work.

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Originally Posted by Susie53

I use an ice cream scoop...works great!!!

I have an old 2 quart plastic tub into which I place a gallon zip lock baggie. I fill the baggie with one doctored cake mix and snip off a tiny corner of the baggy and fill my cupcake liners. I hold and squeeze with one hand and pinch and release the cut corner of the baggy with two fingers of the other hand. I don't know how the ice cream scoop would work with thin batter.

How does that pancake batter thing work?

ice cream scooper or ziploc style bag

Apti - I see you use a doctored cake mix for your cuppies. Do they turn out as good as a regular sized cake? I made some scratch cuppies the other day and they were dry so I was going to go with the doctored cake mix.

I'm with apti on this one...I use a gallon size ziplock baggie. I get mine at the dollar store... I like that I have no mess to clean up

Gonna check out the pancake dispenser

So I was going to post about this. I had 650 cupcakes for this past Sunday. 325 were chocolate and my chocolate batter is very liquidy. I invested in a pancake batter dispenser from the restaurant supply store and OMG I am in love. It was awesome and you can even adjust how much batter comes out.
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=pancake+batter+dispenser&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7DMUS_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=3215545624186504265&ei=cu3PTOekI4L6lweLz-yOBg&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CEUQ8gIwAA#
That is the one I bought.