With my obsessive need to go shopping all the time, I love a good sale! Unfortunately, where I live the “good” sales tend to be at large *Canadian* box stores, not Nordstrom or Christian Louboutin! One thursday night I excitedly ran down to the local Canadian Tire (yes we have a store called that in Canada) and found TWO Babycakes products- a cupcake and a cake pop maker- on sale . . . amongst the wrenches, fishing rods and road salt. One has to love a “one-stop-shop”!
My first video that I did was a review of the Babycakes Cupcake Maker . . . I don’t think I would have bought one of these for full price, but at a sale of $15 CDN, I figured it was worth it to check it out and give a review.
The maker is CUTE (and pink!), which makes me love it . . . and of course it is rather small, so it conveniently can fit pretty much anywhere you need it to.
I was really impressed that the instruction guide came with recipes, because my recipes are quite large, and I was already worrying about scaling them down. I whipped up a batch of their chocolate cake, then followed the easy instructions on how to work the cupcake maker (preheating etc). . . and I waited for it to fail! I don’t know why, but I was convinced it wouldn’t work.
Surprisingly, it worked fabulously! Honestly, I found making the mini cupcakes in the Babycakes maker so much easier than using a mini cupcake tin that goes in the oven! The cupcakes domed up perfectly (but you have to put enough batter in the cup to do so) and came out rather easily. I’m sure you need to keep the metal plates and wells oiled after uses though, as I imagine the batter would stick to everything if not!
I wanted to make sure I could use the maker with cupcake liners too, so in some of the wells I put mini-cupcake liners, and though they appeared to not fit at first, once they were filled with batter and cooked in the maker, the liners filled the wells perfectly.
I wouldn’t buy this machine if you’re looking to do production work, but it would be a great tool to use with kids (watch out as the handles get hot) or if you’re just craving a small batch of cupcakes 🙂
I hope my video and blog review of Babycakes Cupcake Maker is helpful for you, and if you have any more questions, just let me know!
