Like them or not?
I wanted a mini muffin tray (metal) but my thus far favorite store has closed....empty nothing in it....gone. To say I was upset is putting it mildly....had to console myself with Thornton's ice cream :-)...
Anyway next best was a Denby shop and all they had were the silicone ones. I have always passed them by but because I needed one I bought it. £8.99 so not cheap.

The muffins came out nice. Not burned or over brown...a bit strange putting in and out of the oven compared to a rigid muffin tin...but over all not bad.

BUT still not sold on em.

What you y'all think??

Oh I think I found a new best store...(Lakeland opened in Belfast...whoo hoo....)

I love them. I always manage to get a crispy edge on the cake with metal tins, no matter what heat I use, or anything I varied. Then I went shopping and saw some silicone muffin "papers" and fell in love with the feel of them, but they were really expensive at the place (about £30!) and I wasn't convinced. A few weeks later, my mum came home to cheer me up and had bought me a cheap silicon set (2 cake "tins", a muffin tray, bread "tin", basting brush, and 12 muffin "papers").
I cooked a cake with the tins and it was the best cake I have ever cook. It was brilliant! I absolutely love them. I am obsessed with them now. I use them at every given opportunity. Washing up's a doddle. I can't resist everytime I pop into Tesco's going to have a look whats in. Trouble is they are expensive in there. IMO the cheap stuff are just as good, unlike actual tins where you do need to invest in a good one.

I really like the silicone individual fairy cake cases they're a bit more rigid than paper cases, so my cakes rise upward rather than outwards :-) I've got sandwich tin style ones and they're horrible though :-(  I was extremely upset to lose an entire cake when it got horribly stuck to the bottom (I am a real cake fan!). They were from Home Bargains though, so perhaps not the same kind of quality....  Not tried a muffin one, do you have the muffins in a paper case as well?

> Not tried a muffin one, do you have the muffins in a paper case as well?

I don't suppose it matters either way, although they might sweat it they were kept in the "papers"

I just popped the muffin mix in to the little holes with out any cases.
I made mini lemon drizzle muffins. And they just popped out no bother.
I guess I'm just resistant to change as they did come out nicer than I expected.
Still made just to give the muffin tray a light coating of oil as directed on the package insert.
Going to maybe try cheese ones next.

I am doing a sort of bake sale thing at a car boot so I thought little muffins with a lot of flavors would go over nicely :-)

This is the basic recipe I used....just chop and change the spices to suit and add or not add a glaze. As is it tastes like Dinky Donuts (but reduce the nutmeg and add some cinnamon.)
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Donut-Muffins/Detail.aspx

I have a set from viners that includes a muffin tray, baking sheet, loaf tins, flan/pie dish and some cake 'tins' and they have been great, no problems with any of them at all.  The whole set from Costco was about £20 I think.

Mini lemon drizzle muffins! You're making me sooooo hungry for cake. I was in town today and came within an inch of buying a silicone tray for muffins, but at the last minute the luddite inside showed me a vision of melted rubber welded to the bottom of my oven.

> vision of melted rubber welded to the bottom of my oven.

I'm dreadful at getting the oven temp wrong and have never melted any yet ;-)

Right...had a go at mini cherry pies....tastes great but next time I need to pre bake the crusts as they were slightly underdone. Tonight I'm going to try mini pecan pies.

All this tasting is such hard work....have to know what is good and what isn't for the bake sale....so it needs to be done....:-)

Guess I won't need a dinner tonight.
next week....mini quiches...

:-)