I do cupcakes for my family - minis or regular.
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You can't freeze cake batter because the baking powder that's in it. Baking powder reacts to moisture/heat. Therefore, it won't be effective if you tried to store it. I think everyone agrees, make cake or cupcakes. That's what I do and freeze it. Maybe a small sheetcake which I can cut out other things from if I need to.
You can't freeze cake batter because the baking powder that's in it. Baking powder reacts to moisture/heat. Therefore, it won't be effective if you tried to store it.
Hmm, ever since reading on one of the CC threads about someone freezing cake batter -- at least, I thought I read about it here; I can't seem to find it now -- I've been doing just that with no problems.
Anyway, I've tried it with banana cake so far. Mix up a big batch, divvy into plastic bags (no Ziploc where I am) and freeze. Then a few days or even weeks later, when baking time draweth nigh I defrost a bag or two on the counter (a few hours before baking) or in the fridge (a day before). Convenient, time- and space- saving.
I could be wrong, but I know that's the chemistry aspect of it. That's fantastic if you can freeze it however. I'll have to try it to see how it works. What do I have to lose but a little extra batter.
I don't know about anyone else out there, but if I let a batter sit because let's say I only have one size of a particular pan, I can notice the difference in the cake that was first baked as opposed to the second. The second does not rise quite the same (but it does rise) because the batter has been sitting thus losing some effectiveness of the baking powder. I'm not one to buy self-rising flour because who knows how long it's been on a store shelf and the baking soda that's in it can lose it's effectiveness plus I cannot control the amount of it. Live and learn. Hey I've been told that the only way to learn sometimes is by experimenting. Gives me an excuse to play in the kitchen.
I wouldn't serve it, but I don't think eating cake batter is going to hurt you any more than eating cookie dough. Both of which I do all the time! Who know I may end up with salmonella(spelling?) but I've been eating cookie dough since I was little and no probelms yet.
That's too funny! 
I'm funny about the raw egg deal but hey, if Rocky could do it and look that yummy himself, maybe, just maybe!
Well, on the subject of the batter this is what I found out further:
"The leaveners, baking soda and baking powder, lose their leavening power in the freezer. I also believe that the air bubbles present in the batter from mixing and creaming also pop. They enlarge when the carbon dioxide from the leaveners plus the heat of the oven expand them, causing a cake to rise."
I asked Jeeves, he must know right? 
"The leaveners, baking soda and baking powder, lose their leavening power in the freezer. I also believe that the air bubbles present in the batter from mixing and creaming also pop. They enlarge when the carbon dioxide from the leaveners plus the heat of the oven expand them, causing a cake to rise."
I asked Jeeves, he must know right?
Hmm. I wonder why my cakes made of thawed frozen batter rise.
Maybe... they're... alive...
Or maybe it depends on the kind of cake, in that banana cakes don't rise as much as, say, chiffon cakes? I really don't know. Freezing batter works for me, anyway. 
They may in fact rise, yes. However, it only means is that it loses it's effectiveness. It's the chemical aspect of it. It happens sometimes when you freeze yeast risen products and you can only store it for a short period. It loses it's effectiveness after some time, maybe not immediately or maybe it's your products that are working great.
Hey, I don't know, that's what they taught me in culinary school, but what can I say, if it works for ya then great, keep on doing it.
I'm interested to try it myself. I have to bake tonight, so I'll make one of my cakes an experimental one. I'll even measure and take pictures.
Hey, what the heck, I'm doing like ParisMom and eating some batter to see if I croak. LOL! If I never show up on this site again, assume I bit the dust in batter bliss. 
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