Muffins but no muffin tin - ok to use sponge tins?

ibelongtoguy

Hi all. Desperate to try the muffin recipe I have found on this forum but I don't have any muffin/bun tins. Will it work ok in normally sponge tins or will I need to compensate in the cooking some how?

Many thanks for your advice

Sx

Katgoddess

I don't have a muffin tin yet. I used the muffin paper cases in a fairy cake tin and they come out fine.

A worthy investment before deciding if you like muffins or not.

ibelongtoguy

Yeah...I don't have fairy tins either (or any papercases).

Maybe I should stick to a normal sponge for today...

odds-n-sods

do you have a bread pan?? Muffin recipes make great loaves as well! Just cook them for a liittle longer than in the recipe.

EmmaJ_3

odds-n-sods wrote: »

do you have a bread pan?? Muffin recipes make great loaves as well! Just cook them for a liittle longer than in the recipe.

Second this, I call it 'muffin cake' and its yum.

As muffin mixture is so easy to throw together as well, a treat of mine is to make up a chocolate muffin cake (if I'm feeling really decadent, I'll buy a terrys chocolate orange bar and break that into pieces and put it in as well, and use orange juice instead of milk in the recipe), and bung it in the oven as we sit down to dinner. That way its ready in time for pudding, piping hot muffin cake with some good vanilla icecream is just divine

On a more everyday note - making them in fairycake cases is fine but they'll be a slightly flatter shape. I usually make mini-muffins in my mini-muffin tin. I lost my big muffin tin moving house.....I want a new one now!