It took me awhile to get them level. I use an icecream scoop that has the little lever to help release ice cream (or batter) I use about a full scoop. It was kind of trail and error at first now I got it down. I hope this helps. 
My trick is that I used a digital weighing scale to get the exact measurement per baking cup. Using the scoop method doesn't really give me the uniformity that I need.
I don't usually worry if the cupcakes rise some. By the time you put the icing on them you really can't tell. I always fill my cups about 2/3 full. I have different size pans and cupliners, sometimes I will put a little taller liner in a standard pan and they will bake taller. The liner serves as a wall for your cups to bake. I wouldn't worry about the crowning too much, it is not like a cake where you have to stack them on top of each other.
If your oven is too hot you can get raised domes and as well as this, some cakes rise more than others.
In the patty pan size papers that you can buy at Coles or Woolworths I use two level teaspoons in each one. When i make cupcakes for the kids I just use the cheep store brand vanilla or buttercake packet mixed (62c per pack!!) The butter cake rises more in the centre almost to a point but the vanilla one gives an even shaped flatter top.
I sometimes just rest a cooling rack on the top of my cakes before they cool so they squash down a little and look more even in height.
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Is Woolworths a store that sells everything, and does it have a diner and counter with stools, and sell icecream sundaes and banana splits. Do they have balloons at the diner that you can choose and when you pop it you get something free or money off your meal?
We had a chain of stores called Woolworths, where I live in NYC and it was like I described above. Woolworths had been around since I was a little girl and longer it was well loved and it's truely missed by us all(it's been closed for over ten years now) Their cheeseburgers where the best they toasted their buns. It was an institution, and if this is what you have where you live you and whoever else still have a Woolworths in their town you are so lucky!!
Only if they didn't change the integrity of the place.
yummy, Your Woolworths sounds like it was much more fun than ours is!!!
I think they should bring some of the old things back! It would be good to do some of the things again that we loved way back then! I have a flash of a memory from when I was really little of a similar thing but I think it was in a kmart store, but I'm not too sure!
I use an ice cream scoop to measure the batter. I also saw a trick somewhere on here for a CCC (cupcake cake) tutorial where you place a cutting board on top of the cupcakes as soon as they come out of the oven and leave it there for part of the cooling process. They will get flattened out, then keep that shape once they are cooled. Makes them all one height and thus, very easy to frost the CCC.
I take a gallon-sized zip-lok bag and pour the batter into it. I snip one corner and use it like a pastry bag to "fill" the cupcake tins 2/3 full. Way tidier method for me anyway! You can put it in the refridge between pans to prevent it getting too warm and expanding.
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