I love pretty cupcake liners! Whenever I post cupcakes in pretty colored liners like I did for my Vanilla Cupcakes or my daughter’s Ladybug Birthday I get lots of questions about where I buy my liners. Most of the questions have to do with why the liners I use keep their color so well, and yet most of the liners you may try lose their color/pattern when you bake in them. There is no “secret technique” that I’m using, just better liners. Most cute printed liners found in craft stores lose their color/pattern when they are baked in. The colored liners I (most often) use are labeled either “greaseproof” or “glassine“. Those are the terms you want to look for if you want to bake in colored liners, and have them keep (most of) their color. Vanilla cupcakes, or light colored batters will keep the liners the most vibrant, but good quality liners should keep most of their color even with chocolate batter. Another option if you want to use up colored liners you have (that are not greaseproof), is to bake the cupcakes in white liners, then set the cupcakes (with the white liners) in the colored/patterned liners before serving.
These are a few of my favorite sources for beautiful cupcake liners (again, look for “greaseproof” or “glassine” if you want them to hold their color).
Bakers Stock (great for brown or white liners in bulk)
I like to store some of my pretty liners in glass jars, for easy access and a colorful display.
Happy Baking!
Do you know what would make the cupcake pull away from the liner?
U make me want Cupcake liners. Preferably one set in every color. This is gorgeous Glory-bee. LOVE THE PICS!
Thank you for this! This has been a wonder of mine for ages. Every cupcake liner I have ever used loses its color and it irritates me greatly. This post was a huge help!!
Love the idea of storing them in glass containers 😉 Whenever I use the "greaseproof" liners they peel away from my cupcakes. Any suggestions?
I to would Like to know about the liners coming off after baking, it is happing a lot lately, & I haven't changed anything in my baking, times, or when
I pull them out of tin to cool, I do this right after they come out so there is no condensation from the heat
making them pull loose. There is
A group of us on FB wondering this, so I'm on the hunt for a answer. That's how I found your blog.
Love your liners & the blog!!
How lovely! So greaseproof is the key, I will remember that, thanks.
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love those liners! thanks for listing your resources too..always looking for new places to shop 🙂
I absolutely love my brown baking cups from Simply Caked, they are great for chocolate cupcakes.
There is another problem I have with some cupcake liners: sometimes liners come loose from the baked cupcake. It has happened to me a few times using greaseproof Culpitt Printed baking cases (could be a coincidence though… They do keep their color/pattern which is great). Do you have any idea why this happens? Hope you or anyone else can help me with this. Thank you!
I'm making your chocolate cupcakes for my family tomorrow and I'm using cupcake liners i won from this blog. I LOVE them (and you)!