Is there a recipe for filling a cupcake? Can you just use normal buttercream? I got a tool for Christmas to fill cupcakes but I have no idea what to do with it. Do you just bake normal cupcakes and if you do, do you have to carve out a little inside for the filling? Thanks for your help!!!!

You don't have to carve out a hole if you don't want to. Just add your filling in your pastry bag and poke the tip in the middle of the cupcake. Squeeze while filling and slowly pull the tip out. There are many filling recipes in the recipe section of CC. Or you can buy premade fillings.

I usually take a bit of the middle out using an apple corer..and fill

I used to do that but you can save a ton of time by just squeezing it in. If you have 100 or so cupcakes to make it makes a difference.

I use the bismark tip, I also find it takes to much time to core a hole. I poke in the tip, "swirl" the cupcake around the tip to help create a hole for the filling, then squeeze and pull out slowly. The "swirling" or twisting the cupcake around the tip helps push soem of the cake out of the way and create more room for the filling.

I use the Wilton tip made to fill cupcakes with - you can anything you want to fill them with.

I end up carving a whole, because the cake always clogs my tip. I used the Bismarck tip. How do I resolve that problem?

I use the Bismark tip also. Just as described above.

No, my icing isn't thick. Usually I'm using Swiss buttercream with a touch of fruit puree. I only use thick icing for making roses. I'll have to give it another try and see what happens.

I recently purchased the cupcake genius pan that bakes a well into the middle. I love it. You can see how it works here. http://www.keeponcaking.com/2010/10/cupcake-genius-pan-is-genius/
I think you have to buy them from an Avon rep. I like that it's the perfect amount of filling. Also personally I prefer a filling other than straight buttercresm because there is so much BC on the top of my cupcakes.

I honestly dont see the point. Cupcakes are super easy to fill. Filling them with a proper tip means not having to clean that cupcake genius thing.

I dont know I just see it a waste of money when its really not needed. I try not to buy gadgets that can't serve more than once purpose.

This is how I fill mine:

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/album/105830324epGFhn?vhost=home-and-garden

easy peasy

I completely see your point about it being an extra gadget but I've had bad luck with tip filling. I can never get a consistent amount, thicker fillings can be a pain and thiswast I can use nuts and things that would generally clog a tip or be unusable altogether. I had used the apple corer but this is faster for me. It's just another option for people looking to fill cupcakes

Hi, this is my first post ! wondering about using fillings in cupcakes too. would a filling last longer inside a cupcake, rather than using a frosting on the outside? trying to figure out which would be the best to do - food safety wise.

thanks

sorry, that would have been more helpful to mention. I'd like to use buttercream...and a filling that has butter as one of the ingredients.

thanks !