you know those teeny weeny tiny cake cases?? smaller than mini muffins...

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what do i bake them in?/ the mini muffin tray i borrowed off a friend is enormous in comparison but if i dont use some kind of tin they are just going to go flat and biscuity arent they??? need to bake them on saturday so advice needed quickly! thank you

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Have you got a proper mini muffin tin?

They should be fine just on a tray or use the cases and put them inside the wholes iyswim. Have just looked on lakeland but cna't find the mini muffin tin atm.

Well, you might be ok. I've just made fairy cakes with dd and her friend and we used the teeny tiny cake cases and put them in the mini muffin tins. They were smaller than the muffin tin but if the mixture is fairly stiff, and you don't overfill them, you should be ok. I used the muffin tin mostly to make sure they didn't collapse totally - I'm pretty sure when we made them as kids we didn't bother and just put them straight on a baking sheet.

Am now off to clean up the kitchen. There are hundreds and thousands everywhere

ah ok thanks. well i hope it does work as am doing them for dd's birthday party. yes its the mini muffin tray i have borrowed. thing is its going to be fairy cake mixture rather than muffin mixture... how can i make the mixture more, erm, stiff??? (funny how just typing the word stiff makes me snigger )

Your post has just cost me £36 as I saw Lakeland had a sale and it would have been rude not to order.

Just don't put too much milk in. If you add it drop by drop (literally) as you mix, then stop whilst it's still quite firm. Typically fairy cake mixture is quite runny, but mine worked quite well with about 2/3 of the amount of milk in the recipe.

I use petit four cases to make fairy cakes in mine when making cakes for dd's. Thet also have the advantage of being nice bright colours. I also make mini jam tarts.