silicone baking tray and muffin cases?

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ok i am a complete novice but i want to do some baking this week with the kids and i keep seeing silicon baking trays in the shops when i go to get supplies ... they seem to be everywhere from poundland to costco. So can someone please explain how to use them? Do you treat them as a traditional tin, or do you have to place them on a traditional baking tray? and special greasing? sorry if this sounds silly but the last thing i want is melted silicone seeping out of my oven whilst 4 children look on!

They don't melt but you do need to put them on a baking tray or they're too wobbly to put in the oven. You don't need to grease them either

thank you!

I heart mine...but my MIL thinks we will all die from all the carcenogenic atoms that the silicone will give off....

oh it didnt even occur to me that i coud use them in the microwave! (im not making myself sound very intelligent with this thread am i? )

I love mine and would not use anything else. I bung them in the dishwasher after using them.

You get them in all shapes and sizes. I was looking at a rose cake tin the other day but resisted.

They are fab, and the £3 jobbies from Sainsbury's are as good as the £16 famous-celebrity-chef range. Sainsbury's do 6 hole muffin trays for about £3.99, IIRC, and also do separate muffin, fairy cake and mini-muffin silicone cases which you could fill and then stand on a normal baking tray.

Most of the range is well under a fiver anyway, and they last for ages.

I am just about to use my silicone loaf tin - do you need to let the cake cool before removing it?

I have just used a flower shaped 6 muffin silicone tray and it did stick! The tops of the cakes fell off when I was trying to push them out..I did wait untill it cool a bit, then turned it upside down whilest holding the tray in between two plastci trays (to sustain support since the silicone tray is so wobbly...
) I am dissaponted :( Could anyone give any tips or have ideas why did it turn out like that?...

for muffins/fairy cakes I've got the silicone individual little cases that you put inside a traditional 12 hole cake tin. These don't stick at all. I've found the big ones better for tray bakes, have never greased them, just allowed them to cool for whatever time the recipe says.

Sammy - I would let it cool a little - any cake will fall apart if you turn it out of the tin while it is too warm - have done it.