Surprise Filling Cupcake pan

Does anyone out there want one of these???

My sweet husband bought me the COOLEST cupcake pan! Instead of putting candy in the center of the batter, hoping it won’t sink to the bottom but discovering in the end… it has, this pan has a skewer in the center, designed to hold candy, fruit, etc. WOAH!

I’ve tried two fillings so far: maraschino cherries and peanut-butter cups. Rather than gush about my cool pan, I thought it would be most useful to show how I used it and tell you why you all need one. 🙂

Because there is a skewer in the middle, the only way to put on the cupcake liners is to puncture them. I was pleasantly surprised that none of the batter oozed out of the small hole when the baked.

I then added my delicious filling. I put the PB cups on far enough that I could just feel the tip of the skewer on my finger.

I tried several methods to get the batter into the cups, but in the end I discovered the easiest way was to fill a piping bag with the batter and pipe it around the skewer.

Be sure to put a little on top of the filling, or you’ll end up with a bit of a sunken cupcake.

Check it out!!

Basically, cupcakes don’t get better than this. Next, I’m considering white-chocolate truffles or Rolos. Stay tuned!!

 

7 Comments

  1. Kathy B on November 2, 2012 at 9:29 am

    Freeze the peanut butter cups first so they don’t melt



    • Ami on November 2, 2012 at 1:54 pm

      Thanks for the tip Kathy! Mine actually didn’t melt at all, which was really nice!



  2. kristy on January 4, 2013 at 8:01 am

    Where did you find such a wonderful cupcake pan!?



    • The Pink Apron Blog on January 5, 2013 at 5:11 pm

      Isn’t it awesome!!! My husband ordered it for me on Amazon.com. If you click on the words “this pan” in pink in the second paragraph, it will take you to the listing on Amazon. Thanks for reading!



  3. Anne on March 27, 2013 at 12:47 pm

    Cool!!! Want this!!!



  4. ahnea on August 18, 2013 at 10:33 pm

    Ingenious!!! The combinations are endless!



  5. Rachel on August 18, 2013 at 10:46 pm

    That is so cool! Will def get that as a gift for someone!