Looking for tips and hints.

SoFloGuy, is that a trick question? I never store cupcakes in the fridge. Batter goes into the fridge, baked cupcakes stay on the counter for one day or in the freezer for longer storage. (Although I try to eat them all so there's no storage issue.)

I put mine in the fridge. What am I gonna do eat 24 full size cupcakes all at once. I can only eat 20 in one sitting and put the rest in the fridge and they are fine.

I don't store my cupcakes in the fridge either. I store them on the counter in the tupperware container or freeze for longer storage.

Lol. Well if you must put them in the fridge because of a perishable filling or something, make sure they are wrapped well - but realize that this may make the liners pull away or decorations melt and the moisture is too trapped. I'm with Mimi, room temp for a day, freezer for longer.

Ditto, freezer or counter for me.

I love my fridge, I put everything in there, cupcakes, cakes, cookies, wallets. etc.

Any time I've put cupcakes in the fridge, they've gotten dry, so I won't do it now. Count me among the counter or freezer crowd!

My fridge cupcakes are nice and moist :drool:

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When I put mine in the freezer I usually use a rubbermaid-type container so they don't get squished. That would work in the frig too and no worry about the plastic wrap getting on the icing.

I don't put them in the frig either.

There is a local bakery (they've even competed and won Cupcake Wars twice), and they put their cupcakes in the frig. They are so dry. Yuck!

Mimi, I have seen your bio picture. Is it airbrushed? You couldn't eat a bunch of cupcakes if you tried.

For those who don't know Mimi, she is a published author and she is very fit.

I too do not put them in the refrigerator. I bake for customers so that there is no refrigeration or freezer and I just add the buttercream jusst before pickup or delivery.

If I have extras, my family knows to eat them in two days and then they get thrown away. And I always have plenty of people happy to take my over-runs.

I never put cupcakes (or cake either) in the fridge. Refrigeration drys out cake. It's a terrible way to treat nice baked goods.

If you properly cover/wrap cake, freezing it will not hurt it in the least. Actually, I've found sometimes it's helped improve the texture! I don't freeze very often, but any time I have, it's thawed out beautifully.
I'd rather do that than put them in the fridge, to be honest.

I put mine in a snapware cupcake container then put them in the fridge. Just had one yesterday that had been in the fridge since Friday (ate it Sunday afternoon) and it was absolutely scrumptious!

Ok, so I am now at a point where I have this same issue. I just opened a bakery and I have a small selection of cupcakes in a display. So at night I cant afford to just  throw away every thing that didn't sell that day so I have been putting them in a huge container and putting that in the refrigerator so that direct air is not on them, but now I am rethinking this. Perhaps I should just put the container on the counter in the bakery kitchen overnight.  Feedback please, I need help from someone with experience. 

Are you happy with the  quality of cupcakes the next day?  If you are then just do what you are doing.

You can also freeze them.  There is a difference between freezer "use" and freezer "abuse" :)

I have tried putting them in a container and putting that container on the cooling rack at night rather than in the refrigerator.  They seem to be fine, I put ones with filling in the refrigerator anyway. Thanks for your help.

Cake on my sisters!  LOL

I have purposefully put some in the refrigerator for both one and two days to test the quality, and for one day I find the quality is not noticeably different for most of my cupcakes(I make everything from scratch, if that matters). Things like my lemon meringue...the frosting doesn't hold up well in the fridge.

For most things though - the 2 days still tasted "fine" but not as fresh as I would like, and I don't think I would sell them at that point. But the next day - probably. I would just make sure to do a quality taste-test. Or sell them at a discount as day-old? 

If I know ahead of time I'm not going to be using the cupcakes I bake in the next day though, I will freeze them - well-packaged, unfrosted, and unfilled. I have frozen them for up to a week and haven't had any adverse effects and in fact along the lines of what another poster said, I sometimes find the moistness and texture to be better with the cupcakes that have been frozen for a few days.  Just my 2 cents!

AIf you say you like how your cupcakes taste when in the fridge. Then why ask for tips and hints then? You're asking people for opinions and not taking them

I don't bake a lot of cupcakes but last time I did, I put them in a tupperware box and left them on the counter (with no frosting) on top. The next day they were sticky on top, like there was humidity! they were perfectly cold when i storage them, I made them in the morning and storaged around 9pm