S**E
These are fun and colorful
These are fun and colorful, but they take on the smell of dish soap FYI. I did not have a dishwasher last year in my apartment, so everything was hand washed with Dawn dish soap. I do not use too much. Just one drop on my sponge and I scrubbed these clean. Unfortunately, my next batch of banana muffins a few weeks later tasted like Dawn. Yuck!! Maybe if I washed with unscented soap or had a dishwasher it would have been different.In terms of the baking, these are basic baking cups and they are all basically the same. These are a little thinner than others I've tried.
D**E
A LITTLE CONFUSED......
Well, I guess I am the only one that is confused about these...I thought I was getting 4 sets of 12. So I was a little disheartened by that... I am excited to use these. My plan is to bake eggs in them for homemade breakfast sandwiches. And also for muffins. I dislike cleaning muffin tins.
V**V
In My Cups
these cupcake baking cups were my first venture into silicon baking items. I bake everything in a counter-top turbo oven (this is the tropics, I don't use a/c, and there's no way I'm turning on the oven in here), and it only fits about eight of them even though they're small, but they work great for making little (and I do mean little, but I only fill them to about the halfway mark so they don't "boil over") muffins.lately I've been using them for homemade peanut-butter, chocolate, and coconut cups. THIS is my favorite thing to do with them. I mix organic cacao powder with organic coconut mana and a tiny bit of raw honey, put a layer of that in the silicon cups, spread a layer of (organic) peanut-butter over that, then add another layer of the cacao/coconut/honey mixture and toss them in the freezer. when I remove them from the silicon, they look exactly like the commercial peanut-butter cups, but these aren't full of crap, they're full of practically-a-vitamin-or-supplement goodness and they taste so much better than reese's.when the kitchen is done I'm going to get some in a larger size for muffins and keep using these for the peanut-butter cups. but at the moment I'm using these for both and have no legitimate complaints (because I can always eat two muffins. and, who knows, maybe everything is baking so well because of the small size. I hate it when things are finished on the outside and runny on the inside).I also really like the colors, which haven't changed after a year or so of use (mostly in the freezer). they clean with a quick soap and rinse. I do plan to continue baking with silicon just because it's so easy, but I don't like it for breads (or pizza). silicon makes for a slightly "rubbery" crust which reminds me of things cooked with teflon (which I've never used, but I've had food cooked in/on teflon at friends' homes and do not like it, at all. makes for a very strange texture). fine for things like muffins, though -- and perfect for the peanut-butter cups!UPDATE: after discussing these baking cups with a friend and reading the negative reviews here, I wanted to update my review. big surprise to me, I missed the part where these are supposed to be used as liners! that would explain why they're so "flimsy." I never filled them more than half way for fear they'd keel over or flatten and spill. that is probably why the mini whatevers are thoroughly baked (some negative reviews mentioned having things done on the outside but not on the inside), but I like having the small cakes. tea cakes. baking with the turbo oven has them constrained by the glass bowl, so there's support not provided by a cookie sheet. I use them most often to make the soooooo-much-better-than-reese's cups, and they're perfect for that. perfect.the thing about the cups being hard to clean or taking on the taste of the dish soap? not saying other reviewers didn't have exactly those experiences, but the cups I got are non-stick-slick inside. all I have to do is turn them over and the cakes fall out; the frozen peanut-butter coco-choco things are peeled out. a quick rinse under hot water, swipe with a (bronner's hemp-almond) soapy sponge, another rinse and they're clean with no almond-soap smell or residue.it's nice to know there are thicker/stiffer stand-alone silicone baking cups available, and I do understand why others might have complaints, but a couple of years later I'm still very pleased with this purchase. as always, YMMV.
A**.
Meh.
They're a lot smaller than I expected as well as being more like a cupcake liner as they need a tin or a cooking sheet to hold them because they are so small. They also increase my cooking time significantly so I'm going back to my lovely non-stick pan.
L**O
Work Great For Vegan Baking!
Yes it's true! Finally a silicone baking cup that doesn't hang on to the smell of previously baked goods. That has always been a problem with my previous silicone baking cups. So happy to find ones that don't do that.Vegan Cooking? Read On!!!These are great for making Vegan muffins. If you have made Vegan muffins before (ie no egg, milk, butter, etc) then you know if you put muffin mix into the little paper liners you might as well just throw them away now as you'll never get your muffin unstuck from the paper. These are fantastic for making Vegan muffins. I don't even have to use cooking spray. Just drop the batter into each muffin cup and put in the oven. Bake and pop them out. Super easy. Also clean up is a snap with these. I know they are dishwasher safe, however I can wash them so quickly and easily by hand I just do that instead.So how on earth do you bake without eggs and milk and butter?It is sooooo easy and really very healthy! I can't believe a "scratch" baker like myself didn't know about this sooner. For muffins, simply substitute eggs for applesauce. 1/4 cup applesauce for every egg your recipe calls for. Instead of cows milk I use almond milk (unsweetened). Instead of sugar I use honey (decrease the amount of honey to sugar ratio unless you like your muffins super sweet!). Our family quickly learned that eggs and milk overpower the flavor of the rest of the ingredients in your muffins, so when we swapped them out we tasted a whole new muffin.Hope this review was helpful to you!
M**E
short 1 green baking cup
I ordered two packages of 12 baking cups, one sealed package had 12, the other sealed package was missing one green cup. I am returning the package missing the cup to Amazon. Hope someone will take note and not send it out to another unsuspecting buyer. The package I kept looks fine. I am ordering a different brand to replace the package I am returning. Once burned, twice shy.
A**.
Inexplicly difficult to clean
I make wheat belly quiches in these and the sides/ridges are difficult to clean out even by hand. Though they can go in the dishwasher ours is too powerful and tosses them around.Otherwise they work pretty good. I may look around for one that has no ridges to ease clean up.
E**R
Smaller than They Look
These are small baking cups, though I guess they make as big a muffin or cupcake as a traditional muffin pan. I am switching to all silicone bakeware because of space and arthritis. I just can't lift heavy pans any longer. So far, I am satisfied with what I've purchased.
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