small cakes/muffins not rising correctly [duplicate]

My small cakes for example muffins are not rising correctly. They rise lopsidedly and spill over the paper cases. Nothing wrong with oven. I've tried various things, eg wetter mixture, drier mixture, smaller quantity in case, larger quantity in case, it's as if the fan is blowing the cake mixture off to once side. Doesn't happen with all my cakes mainly the small ones. Any ideas ?

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Best Answer

I'm willing to bet you're using egg foam for leavening which is notoriously finicky. Despite protestations that it can't be overmixed, it also can't be undermixed! So make sure it's well incorporated into the batter before loading up. Batter color should be even.

For other considerations, similar rules apply if you're using chemical leavening: your tins/cups/pans need to be spotlessly clean. This is my method: Insides are then lubed up to the top with butter or shortening. The insides should then be tossed with a thin coating of something, either sugar or chocolate powder (basically some dry substance). Load your batter in to 2/3 the height of the pan (tends to be roughly the same regardless of the size of the pan for me). Do so very neatly so as not to spill batter and muck up the pan. Also give it a slight few taps to work unsuspended air bubbles up to the surface.

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Why do my muffins not rise evenly?

Muffins Don't RiseYour oven might not be hot enough. Opening the oven door too many times to check the muffins can also make the oven lose a lot of heat and accordingly cause your muffin tops to sink as well. If you undermix the batter, it's likely that your muffins won't develop much structure.

How do you make muffins rise evenly?

Too much leavening \u2013 If there is too much baking soda or powder in the batter, muffins will rise temporarily, then collapse. This causes them to become dense. For every cup of flour, you only need 1 teaspoon of baking powder or 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda.

Why do my muffins come out flat?

Why do my muffins come out flat? As a general rule, your muffins will come out flat because they are underbaked, you used inactive or insufficient leavening ingredients, or you didn't mix your ingredients correctly. Follow the muffin recipe precisely to get the muffins to rise.

Coffee Cake Muffins Recipe Demonstration - Joyofbaking.com

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