Cupcake Nightmare - Please Help!

Baking By kerryberg Updated 6 Jul 2017 , 9:42pm by -K8memphis

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kerryberg Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 1:13pm
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After much research I was able to find a delicious and moist vanilla cupcake recipe - FINALLY!

THE DILEMMA: I baked 24 cupcakes at 325 degrees for about 15-17 mins. About 1/4 turned out great - the REST had bottoms that got too dark? Any tricks on how to fix this? Thank you all!



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Freckles0829 Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 1:33pm
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I have had the same thing happen (no idea why), so I am going to follow this to get some tips/tricks too!

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640Cake Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 4:23pm
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Are you using a convection oven? 

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kerryberg Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 4:51pm
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Thank you! No I am using a conventional oven

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ypierce82 Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 5:40pm
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Do you rotate your pan half way through baking? You can also put a cookie sheet on the empty rack below it. 

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kerryberg Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 5:53pm
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I will give that a whirl! I had no idea a simple cupcake could get so complicated! Oh goodness!

Thank you for your advice! 

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ypierce82 Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 6:41pm
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You're welcome! Cupcakes are the worst, but I love them lol using the cookie sheet helps me a lot, it creates a barrier between that bottom heat element and the bottom of the cupcake pan.

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kakeladi Posted 29 Jun 2017 , 10:02pm
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All (at least most) ovens have 'hot spots'.  You have to learn how your oven runs/works.  In my oven, it's the front 3"-4" that don't bake up well while the rest of the oven almost burns things so turning the pan part way though is necessary. 

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aldonza Posted 30 Jun 2017 , 3:34am
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So I went through a burning streak. I couldn't understand why everything I cooked came out burnt and cooked at lightning speed. Do yourself a favor and buy an oven thermometer. it turns out that my oven was running a hundred degrees hotter than what it was set at! Yeah.

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aldonza Posted 30 Jun 2017 , 3:34am
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So I went through a burning streak. I couldn't understand why everything I cooked came out burnt and cooked at lightning speed. Do yourself a favor and buy an oven thermometer. it turns out that my oven was running a hundred degrees hotter than what it was set at! Yeah.

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kerryberg Posted 30 Jun 2017 , 12:36pm
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You ladies are GREAT! I tried out the cookie sheet underneath and it worked beautifully! Thank you so much for your responses and knowledge! As we say in Minnesota - UFFDA! :)



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-K8memphis Posted 2 Jul 2017 , 3:11pm
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i'm not from mn what is "uffda" something like "booyah"?

and i need pronunciation too -- uffdah, uffday, oofdah, oofday? accent on which syllable or is it just a bunch of letters?

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kerryberg Posted 6 Jul 2017 , 2:41pm
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Hi - yes! It's kind of like saying "oh goodness" and its pronounced "OOF-DUH"! We are a bunch of Scandinavians here :) 



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-K8memphis Posted 6 Jul 2017 , 9:40pm
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cool! thank you -- i love stuff like that 

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-K8memphis Posted 6 Jul 2017 , 9:42pm
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what's that one from the "greek wedding" one ?

oh yeah, "OHpah!"

lotta fun those ethnic sayings

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