Forum: cooking.stackexchange.com
Tags: <baking><cupcakes>
Title: How to stop my cupcakes from sticking to their cupcake wrappers?
Question: I have found that every time I make cupcakes (or muffins, cornbread & hot dog muffins, etc) that the paper liner sticks to the finished cupcake. I know its not me because the Tim Hortons 'muffins' also stick to their liners.  How do I fix this?

Answers:
sents: text: Isn't that normal?
text: I suppose if it's causing a problem, you could use a non-stick (teflon, etc.)
text: muffin pan, without the paper liners.
text: You could also try silicone-coated (parchment) liners.
text: A quick check reveals that e.g., Amazon sells them.
text: <purist>cornbread shall be cooked in preheated cast iron, and if that's sticking, you need to season your cast iron properly .</purist>
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/160/derobert
score: 17
sents: text: I've had this happen too
text: and I've found this little trick helps.
text: Line
text: your muffin/cupcake tin with your papers and then give the papers in the pan a light coating with non-stick spray.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/5450/Anna
score: 10
sents: text: If you put them upside down into the microwave under a wet paper towel for 15 seconds, the cupcake papers come right off.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/10624/sasha
score: 5
sents: text: One question would be why do you need the wrappers?
text: If you don't need them at all, just grease the pans and don't use them.
text: I once agreed to make cupcakes for a wedding**, and as I knew this was a potential problem
text: (and I didn't want people dressed nicely having to struggle with unwrapping frosted cupcakes), I greased the muffin tins, and purchased larger than normal wrappers.
text: Once the cupcakes were baked, I removed them from the pan, and just placed them in the wrappers.
text: ** I actually agreed to make a cake.
text: I was told 'just a plain white cake'.
text: So I took 3 months of cake decorating classes.
text: Then somehow it changed to '150 cupcakes, with a rose on each one' ...
text: luckily, I found a place where I could buy the roses, but I had to clean 'em out.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/67/Joe
score: 5
sents: text: Have you tried the silicone baking cup liners?
text: My wife and daughter used it whenever they bake muffins and banana bread and with perfect result, no burnt side and bottom and evenly cooked muffins non-sticky and easy to slide cupcakes and banana breads.
text: You don't need to buy paper cupcake liners everytime because silicone cupcake liners are reusable and easy to clean.
text: To learn more see... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P87R4PO
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/32897/Ernie
score: 3
sents: text: I second the non-stick spray.
text: Another suggestion would be putting a water bath in to keep the muffins or cupcakes from drying out too much and sticking to the paper.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/4041/Devo Sandberg Kessin
score: 2
sents: text: I've found cooking them in paper cases and silicone cases seems to stop them sticking.
text: I think the silicone stops the moisture escaping and the paper means they don't stick to the silicone.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/5489/Echilon
score: 1
sents: text: Slide a cookie sheet filled with water under the bottom rack.
text: The moisture in the oven prevents the muffin from sticking to the paper liners.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/26400/user26400
score: 1
sents: text: My muffin recipe calls for melted butter, so I brush a little into the bottom of the wrappers and up the sides a bit.
text: Works a treat.
text: I've also seen greaseproof silicone ones that might be worth a try.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/15659/Kirsteen
score: 0
sents: text: Using tin foil type liners instead of paper ones has worked for me in the past.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/20848/user20848
score: 0
sents: text: I stumbled upon Wilton parchment paper cupcake liners and voila!, no sticking to the paper.
text: Something must be different though because cupcakes never used to stick to paper liners like they do now.
text: The parchment works great though.
text: Jo-Ann's sells them and you can find them in stores where Wilton products are sold.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/23033/Jbug6
score: 0
sents: text: I used both paper liners and the foil
text: outer they did not stick.
text: Then I bought cheaper paper and they stuck really bad.
answer_details: author: cooking.stackexchange.com/users/32710/Marie Ward
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Parchment or silicone liners would work best, or you could coat the pan with a non-stick spray or butter and place them in wrappers after the muffins are baked. A cookie sheet filled with water under the rack can help to loosen the muffins, and stuck cupcake papers will come off easily if placed upside down in the microwave under a wet towel for 15 seconds.
Try silicone liners or greasing the liners before cooking.