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Can I bake in a ceramic coffee mug

post #1 of 6
5/8/11 at 12:53pm
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I am not a very skilled cake carver but needed to make a cake in the form of a coffee cup. So I was thinking of just baking the cake in a ceramic mug. The mug is about the size of a standard paper coffee cup, like you get at Starbucks.
Will the cake bake evenly? Do I need to adjust te temp?
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post #2 of 6
5/8/11 at 1:08pm
I have baked in a coffee cup but I actually bought white oven safe coffee cups from bedbathbeyond. They say oven safe on the bottom. I sprayed cooking spray instead of crisco but cover the surface well. I started the timer at cupcake time and then kept checking for doneness. Btw I use (pieces of) chocolate covered pretzels as handles. Good luck!
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post #3 of 6
5/8/11 at 1:16pm
Sure, as long as it is heat safe. One thing you may want to watch for is the top may brown long before the center is baked. I found that two things help with this: 1) use a flower nail and 2) place aluminum foil over the mug (shiny side down) once you notice that the top is brown but the middle is still not done. Good luck!
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post #4 of 6
5/8/11 at 7:40pm
You could also bake a cake and use round cutters to cut out circles in the sizes you need and them stack them. No carving necessary! If it's a tapered cup, cut a few circles smaller than the rest and then the carving will be minimal- just enough to make the transition from the smaller circles to the larger ones.
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post #5 of 6
5/9/11 at 7:53am
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thanks for the tips!
I learned to bake the 'cup' cakes longer than I did and not to fill the cups up so much!!
I had thought about uisng differnt size circles but I could only find a large size and a small size circle in my collection.
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post #6 of 6
8/16/11 at 12:59am
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Originally Posted by southaustingirl

I am not a very skilled cake carver but needed to make a cake in the form of a coffee cup. So I was thinking of just baking the cake in a ceramic mug. The mug is about the size of a standard paper coffee cup, like you get at Starbucks.
Will the cake bake evenly? Do I need to adjust te temp?
THANKS!


Of course I sprayed cooking spray instead of crisco but cover the surface well. I started the timer at cupcake time and then kept checking for doneness and maybe u can be here find ur answer
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