Fairy cakes keep sinkinng - party tomorrow!!!

[Jezabelle]

I have just make 24 fairy cakes for party bags and they have all sunk so badly that I cannot use them!! What am I doing wrong? Using Nigella's cupcake recipe and putting in oven for advised time at advised temperature.

Have you opened the oven to check on them before they were ready? That can cause sinking.

I used that receipe yesterday and they came out fine. Even did the lazy blitzing in processor

Will they do for butterfly buns? Seems a shame to waste them when I'm sure they taste fine. Picture here

Can you list the actual recipe and ingredients for us? I'm sure I read on here once from one of the baking gurus that she thought nigella used too much baking powder (and that was the cause of my sunken sponges).

Otherwise, can you disguise the sinking by slathering them with lots of buttercream?

actual ingredients and method

You might be over mixing them. Does it say mix and you are using a handmixer instead of a spoon?

Can you pop a little easter egg in eah hole?

This recipe has always workedcwell for me - it's from the hummingbird bakery book. If you want plain ones (not choc) just substitute the 20g of cocoa with another 20g of plain flour
cakecrumbsandcooking.blogspot.com/2009/05/hummingbird-chocolate-cupcakes.html

Sounds like too much BP to me. Nigella's recipes aren't at all reliable ime.

Swirl some buttercream in the middle and pop a chocolate button or mini easter egg on top.

Sorted!

Hi, no time to list recipe as party tomorrow and no time to make more cakes either!! Have got time to make a load of buttercream to fill the holes though! And have 24 Hello Kitty sugar paper circles to stick on top. I reckon most 4/5 year olds are only interested in the icing anyway!

No baking powder at all in recipe btw. But I did get very carried away with the mixing in my new Kenwood mixer, so maybe that's what caused the problem?