I thought you all would get a kick out of this. I made my Orange Cupcake just like I always do but something was wrong because when I went to look at them through the oven windo things were overflowing, there was a cupcake volcano in there! Imagine 6 cupcake pans all like this overflowing all over the oven. I think I know how much I love baking because the whole time this disaster was happening I could not stop laughing. I will rebake the cupcakes tonight and this makes me glad I don't wait until the night before to do my baking!

Actually that is pretty funny! What do you think happened?

That is crazy. Thanks for sharing.

Wow! Why did that happen?

alright, alright, you got me, LOL I dont think I have ever seen this happen before. It is really quite remarkable!! I love the thought, you could bake and fill with some pudding, or something, Inside out cupcakes. LOL. I love it!

impressive! might i suggest: cake balls!

Boy, those would be super easy to fill with some nice dark chocolate ganache!

OOOOOHHH Love the ganache idea!!

they look like kolaches to me...just slap some fruit filling in them
I hope that the cleaning fairy slips in and cleans the mess for you too

LOL - wow I feel kind of bad but couldn't help but laugh at that photo!!!

They look like one of those homemade volcanoes we made in school! You didn't add baking soda and vinegar by accident did you?
I agree with the cakeball idea!

perhaps the mess fairy sat in each one

Well, I must say this is really weird...were they from scratch or box mix?

This looks just like what happened to my six inch cakes last week! I was baking three, six inch cakes and that is exactly what they looked like. I tried it three times and it happened every time. Still have no idea. It was a scratch yellow cake. If you figure out why your cupcakes did that, let me know!

lol, those are an aweful mess. It may be that the batter was overwhipped, causing lots of air to get in the batter. When this happens, the cake will will rise as the air expands, then when cooled, they will colapse. I actually learned this in cooking class a long time ago.

Sandy C

Well, that's just freakish isn't it? I vote for a scoop of ice cream, too.

man that is the funniest thing i;ve seen in awhile

Too much baking powder?

I'm sorry, I totally laughed out loud at the sight of those poor cupcakes! (Then my coworker made fun of me for being on this site all the time, ha).

Soo many good ideas!! I vote for pouring in ganache, and then topping with just a tiny bit of ice cream.

My first couple of cakes where looking like this, all of the cakes were missing the middle. I didn't mixed the ingredients in the right order. You have to mix the sugar and butter first. This creates air to make it rise, along with alternating the milk and dry ingredients into the mixture. Hope this helps.

Here's a youtube video with a little more details.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpob3cZstmI&playnext_from=TL&videos=uz6Ung2eZs8

HAHA, that's epic!! Me thinks too much leavening...lol

You could slice up some strawberries and use some whipped cream...strawberry shortcakes!!!

Thanks! That was great.

BTW - maybe a nice aged whiskey to go with that? You can just skip the ice cream, chocolate and fruit.

You poor thing - I'm laughing with you and not at you! There is nothing to do BUT laugh or you'd have to cry! Are they edible? I'd put the ice ceam in, then the ganache

I had no idea you all were still talking about this pic LOL. I make cupcakes for the farmers market every weekend so I do know more than the photo was letting on. I made a second batch and everything came out just fine!

Mmmm your cupcakes look delicious! So what was the story behind the volcano batch?

I laughed out loud when I looked at the first pic, but the second one made me go "oooh". btw, i'm hungry...