Is there any good reason why I can't use Nigella's chocolate cake mixture for cupcakes?

[Hassled]

Specifically Nigella's Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake - p269 of Feast. It involves sour cream but is basically just a rich sponge - would that work OK for cupcakes? Lower oven temperature (than 180) needed? What about using a brownie recipe for cupcakes? Am I missing something blindingly obvious? This is all part of my over-the-top plan for DD's imminent 18th birthday celebrations. Thanks.

[FluffyMummy123]

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[Enid]

do a trial run and cook for 15 mins then check one

same oven temp

[Hassled]

They're only fairy cakes if you want to cover them with pink icing and silver balls.
Are they shaped like a fairy or are they shaped like a cup? Do fairies eat them? Until I have photographic evidence of fairies eating them I will call them cupcakes .

[Daemara]

cupcakes are only cake so it dosen't really matter if you use a cake recipe. My favorite recipe for a Vanilla cake I use to make cupcakes as well, its just a diffrence of time really. As for the brownies I would suggest you keep to the brownie tin and after you cut them up place them in the cake cases, otherwise they will just be cakes and not brownie as brownie is meant to be gooie not cakey.

[belgo]

Fairy cakes are when you slice the top off cupcakes, cut the slice it in half, and use the two halves to make 'wings' on top of the cake.

[TrinityRhino]

belgo, they are butterfly buns

[belgo]

No they're not Trinity, they're fairy cakes

My mum used to make them, and she calls them faiy cakes

[belgo]

I mean fairy

[Enid]

belgo is correct

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[belgo]

thank you , Enid

[MrsCarrot]

belgo, they SO are butterfly buns

[belgo]

Don't make me disagree with you Carrot, I usually like carrot cake

[MrsCarrot]

Ok, Belgo, you call them that

but you're wrong