How can I get a large "dome" on my cupcakes? I had seen somewhere a tip for this, and of course now that I need it I can not find it. I wanted to make some Halloween cupcakes as well as practice some Christmas ball cupcakes.

I would think over filling the cupcake pan would do this

Something to do with the temp. You have to preheat the oven to a certain temp (higher). Then when you actually put the cupcakes in you set the oven to 325 or whatever you bake them at. I can't remember what the higher temp is but I am looking.

Works perfectly.

I cant find the actual thread your looking for but I just made cupcakes and followed their directions and i got a nice dome on mine.

They said to bake the cupcakes at 180 degrees, nice low slow bake....I wasn't sure it would work but gosh darn diddly it did

HTH

Preheat your oven to 400 - bake 5 min, turn the heat down to 325 and finish baking. It is the initial high heat that domes them.

I've also seen some of the Christmas ornament photo comments mention that the Wilton Mini ball pan was used and place on top of the cupcake. I just ordered one, I LOVE the Christmas ornament cupcakes, but now I wish I knew about the oven temp trick first. Oh, well, having 4 sons, I'm sure I'll get some use out of the ball pan anyway.

I don't think so. IMO, that initial shock of heat is what does the dome, and it would not matter if it were longer. (hope that makes sense) I wouldn't over fill either, that comes back to bite you sometimes (with craters instead of domes!)