Easy No- Mess Cupcakes

This is fun to do with kids, they love to mash the ingredients in the bags.  Warning: do not mash the bags too hard, or the bags will break and there will not be any batter to bake.  I did this with a class of 8th graders and they loved it. 


Here is a no-mess way to make cupcakes with your kids. Look at your recipe and check to see if you need to cream the butter and sugar. Now, get two sturdy, gallon size, ziplock bags.

Step 1: Combine your flour, salt and baking soda (or baking powder or both) in one bag.

Step 2: In the other bag, measure out the sugar.

Step 3:Place the softened butter in the sugar bag and allow your child to mix it up. This will take a while, the butter and sugar must be mixed very well.

Step 4: Add 1 egg to the sugar/butter bag. If 2 eggs, mix them in one at a time.

Step 5: Add the vanilla to the sugar/butter/egg bag and mix.

Step 6: Add the contents of the flour bag to the sugar/butter/egg/vanilla bag, mix well.

Step 7: Add the milk to the bag and mix.

Step 8: Now you have a ziplock bag filled with your cupcake batter. Snip the tip off one of the corners and portion the batter into the baking tins.

Bake according to recipe.

Your kitchen mess should be 2 ziplock bags and your baking tins.

Enjoy!!