chocolate cupcakes cooked in double layer foil and baking paper patty cases
You won't believe how simple and easy this is.
- One metal tray
- One black tea towel
- Oven mitts
- One pyrex toughened glass bowl
- Aluminium foil cupcake pattie cases
- Cupcake or muffin mix
- 3 mirrors or aluminium foil on cardboard reflectors
- Sunshine!!
Place the metal tray, tea towel and pyrex bowl in the middle of the sunlight from the mirrors, so it warms up. This should be in a position on a table that is safe. out of reach of children, out of the wind, with space to put another tray, oven mitts down.
Adjust the mirrors to reflect the sunlight to the middle of the metal tray, it works best upside down with a mirror underneath it.
Make the cupcake or muffin mix with a little less water than usual, so its a bit thick, not pouring runny. Use a scoop or spoon and knife to put the mixture into the patty cases, between 1/3 and 1/2 filled.
Place the black tea towel folded in half on the hot metal tray. Put the patty cases in a circle, with a bit of gap between each one on the tea towel, so that the pyrex bowl will fit over the top. Try to keep the edges of the
Place the pyrex bowl over the top of the cupcakes. The mixture will start to rise, condensation will form on the insides of the pyrex bowl, and roll down the sides to the tea towel. The tea towel will wick the condensation and steam outside.
Cooking time will vary depending on the size and position of the mirrors. Let them cook for 10 minutes without lifting the bowl. When you lift the pyrex dish using oven mitts, as it will be very hot. The aluminium foil patty cases and baking paper insulate the cupcakes, and luckily make the cooking even from the top to the bottom. If you leave the cupcakes in too long, they won't burn, but they will go hard and dry. Its best to get them out when there is still some steam and condensation on the pyrex bowl, and the cupcakes bounce back when you tap the top.
Happy solar cooking!
Photos and youtube video to follow soon, as soon as the sun is shining here again.