Thrifty baking discovery when 12 cakes / muffins are too much.

[megletthesecond]

I thought I'd post this here as single parent families are generally smaller and poorer than most households. And cake is important.

I've discovered that you can freeze cake mix in cases. It cooks from frozen when you fancy home made cakes. The only thing that I will do next time is use silicon cases because they don't collapse.

I'm sure they wouldn't win GBBO prize for looks but they taste perfectly normal.

I'm going to make double quantities of muffin mix from now on and freeze then cook when needed.

[PrivateParkin]

That's ace. I knew you could freeze cookie dough but not muffin mix. I wonder if you froze it initially in the cases in a tin, to keep the shape, then once they were frozen into shape, you could take the tin out of the freezer and just put the frozen mix cases into freezer bags? We're only a small family too, and I love baking, but stuff always ends up being binned (or eaten by me).

My DS takes packed lunch and if I'm organised (not often) I freeze slices of cake/traybake for him to take for lunch. But it would be nice to have a warm muffin option as well!

[Pattygonia]

Brilliant idea, thank you. Especially for breakfast muffins!

[megletthesecond]

Good idea private. Freezing in the tray would keep their shape wouldn't it. I didn't think of that at the time .

[PrivateParkin]

I wouldn't have thought of it at the time either - but your second pic showed the tin which put it into my head! I'm just looking at muffin recipes now!

[DragonsAndCakes]

Cooked cakes freeze really well too, though, and then you’ve only had to put the oven on once.

[Strawberrybelly]

That's a good idea. You can also freeze cooked un iced cakes.

[megletthesecond]

patty yy, me and DS like banana and oat muffins dd won't eat anything wholesome Just not several days of them in a row. If I freeze them we can just have them at weekends.

[megletthesecond]

Update. It's still working and works best freezing them in silicone muffin cases.

[TellMeItsNotTrue]

Not something I would have thought to do, I know you can freeze them after baking and just take out on the day you want them