tomorrow morning. maybe realy late tonight but more likely tomorrow..party is at 3. What would be the easiest way to keep them from drying out. freeze till a.m freeze just 14 hours I will be gone and let them thaw overnight. just live them out, covered or uncovered .

Cover carefully and seal then freeze. I wouldn't frost until morning, allow about an hour for the cupcakes to defrost.

I don't seem to have a problem with cupcakes drying out in that short a time period... not sure if I'm doing anything different. All I do is bake them and then give them a brush with sugar syrup while they are still warm out of the oven and that keeps them nice and moist until I can get around to frosting them - sometimes even two days later. I just keep them in an airtight cake tin. But I'm only a newbie... I may be doing things completely wrong! I don't have enough room in my freezer to be able to freeze cakes until I need them so this is how I do things. Seems to work fine for me though - I get good reviews on the flavour of my cupcakes.

Would you please share your recipe for sugar syrup? About how much do you put on each cupcake? Thank you !

When I do cupcakes that I can't ice immedialty, I just put them in an airtight container still warm, and they acctually come out even better. The moisture gets locked in and the cupcakes absorb them. I keep them in the containers even after icing!

Thank you. I'll give it a try.

Why won't an air tight container on the cabinet work? That's what I do all the time.

I baked cupcakes Wednesday night and some Thursday morning... I still have several left over and ate some this morning and they are still delish!! Mine are on cooling racks sitting on the counter covered up with towels. Sometimes I put them in the microwave to keep out of the elements.