Fruitcake in cupcake tins help please

14 years ago

I'm going to make fruitcake and want to put it in cupcakes because my father has issues with portion control. :)

(He's trying to slow down and apparently used to eat a fruitcake in two sessions.)

So, the recipe calls for lining the bottom of the loaf pans with waxed paper and greasing and flouring. Bake for about 2 hrs at 275F.

Would it work OK to just use paper cupcake/muffin liners, without grease and flour? Would 275F still be a good temperature for cupcake-sized fruitcake (I figured out the not for two hours part though!)?

Or is this a bad idea altogether and I should just cut and prepackage reasonable portions from a loaf?

Thanks for any suggestions!

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Comments (9)

lindac
14 years ago
It will be dry and the fruit at the top and edges pretty crispy....it will stick to the paper without really greasing the papers well....and generally be a PIA...
make your usual and cut, wrap nicely and make individual servings.
Guess how I know all that?? LOL!!
Linda C
grainlady_ks
14 years ago
Generally speaking, fill containers of choice 2/3 to 3/4 full, whether it's muffin tins, small loaf pans, soup cans, etc. Line the muffin pan/s with paper baking cups. Bake muffin fruitcake in preheated 275Â°F oven for 50-60 minutes (according to my favorite fruitcake recipe from "Pillsbury Kitchens' Family Cookbook").

Hope that helps you out.

-Grainlady
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cloudy_christine
14 years ago
Annie does this every year very successfully. I hope she'll weigh in with her technique.
annie1992
14 years ago
CC, I haven't done it for the last couple of years, Dad loved fruitcake but shouldn't eat it and none of the kids liked it. That left it all to Dad and my mother, so I stopped making it.

I made it for years in mini muffin pans, just greased, no paper. The edges got a little crisper than the ones in the loaf pans but they got doused so heavily with blackberry brandy that they softened right up!

I baked at the same temperature as I did the loaf pans, but for much less time. I think the minis only took about 20 minutes, regular muffin tin size 45 or 50.

Annie
Fori
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks all! I'll get to work now. :)
dgkritch
14 years ago
Use the parchment cupcake liners! Nothing sticks to them!

In fact, they have a tendency to fall away on their own...
(huh, Terri???)

It would work great for fruitcake. I've done these as well and agree with those above. Same temp, shorter time, douse with liquour (or juice, if you must!).

Deanna
readinglady
14 years ago
I bake fruitcake in the mini-loaf pans (I mean the really tiny ones) all the time. I line the pans with greased parchment, grease the sides and bake. I've also used the mini-loaf metallic holiday liners and have had good luck with those too.

The only issue is monitoring to be sure the smaller portions don't overbake. For a petite loaf pan of 9 mini-loaves baked at 250 degrees, I allowed somewhere in the vicinity of 80 minutes.

However, the richness and density of your recipe as well as the oven (and whether you're using convection) are all factors in the total time.

Personally, I'd do one test "cupcake" (filling the rest of the cavities with water) and see just how long it takes. Start monitoring at about 40% of the time for a big cake and check every 5 minutes or so after that. I know you'll lose a little heat from opening the oven, but at least it will give you a ballpark number you can work from.

Carol
Fori
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14 years ago
Thanks y'all! I ended up halving the recipe but still got 24 cupcakes and enough extra for a ring thing (maybe a Jell-O mold?) I had inherited because I didn't have anything else that looked the right size and for some reason I didn't think I'd have that much left over and....well, the cupcakes look fine, but now I have a large fruitcake that didn't come out perfect that I will have to eat myself.

Win-win!

(But I thing a mini loaf pan might be on order for next year!)
Terri_PacNW
14 years ago
Yes Deanna, my favorite cupcake papers are parchment..LOL

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