Can anyone please help! This is my first time using this site so here we go.
I'm wanting to make cupcakes with a domed top on them as the bride wants them just dusted with powdered sugar and no icing. I've tried a few recipes but they all come out pretty flat no matter how much mix i use and how hot I have the oven. I need a recipe from scratch as I'm in N.Z and we don't get the packet mixes you have.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Sweetpassion, I make my cupcakes with a mudcake recipe, this gives you a flat top, i was thinking that you may need to try a muffin recipe, they always come out with a domed top.
Have you tried muffins instead??
Cheers
Nati

Yes I've been trying muffin recipes too and they do come out nice and domed but I'm finding that they're not as sweet and I prefer the texture of a cake mix. Oh they need to be a lemon, citrus flavour.
Thanks for your help, it's so quick.

Hm, I have never tried making muffins myself. The mudcakes i make are very sweet, hm, bit of a pickle here. I have tried making buttercakes as cupcakes, but i have the same issue, no doming, just flat. I fix this with the icing ; )
Here are some lemon muffin recipes from NZ
http://www.foodlovers.co.nz/recipes/display.php?id=237
http://www.foodinaminute.co.nz/html/recipe/home.asp?recID=170
http://www.cottonsoft.co.nz/images/products/cheese_muffins.pdf

I am in Melbourne Australia by the way.
I am currently working on updating my website, so i keep seeing all the posts on cakecentral : )
Nati

Thanks Nati I'll check out some of those sites and see what I come up with.
Had a quick look at your photos and they're great. Will post some of mine one of these days. I have a two year old and 6month old and make wedding cakes so don't have much time on the computor.
I went to some amazing cake shops when I visited Melbourne a few years ago. Anyway I'm rambling so Thanks again.

Im actually a computer programmer (cake decorator wannabe : )
so i tend to spend much more time on the computer than i'd like to. It feels like im stuck to it. haha
good luck with your cakes
Cheers
Nati

Try adding meringue powder to your cake, about 1 - 2 TBSP. That seems to help me get more of a rise in my cupcakes.

Julie

I usually add an extra heaping teaspoon of baking powder to the mix (if I'm using a cake mix), and bake at a slightly higher temperature to get a more domed cupcake. Not sure if that'll work for you, but good luck!

Thanks for all the ideas. I found an old recipe for cupcakes and have made 120 of them. They turned out quite nicely, if I do say so myself.
My partner also made me some nice little tins to bake them in which made them taller rather than spreading out wider in the tins I already had so this helped heaps. The wedding is tomorrow so will take a photo and try and post it. It will be my first posting.