Quick Tip #8 - Homemade Cupcake Carriers

I'm sure you'll all be surprised to know that I bake a lot, especially cupcakes!  I have some great cupcake carriers I use to bring them around to parties and work.  But when I have a party at my home, I like to give away leftover cupcakes to my guests.  Here are two homemade cupcake carriers I've whipped up on the fly for my guests to take their cupcakes home for breakfast.  They may not be the classiest or cutest of carriers, but they certainly work well if you're in a bind...and who's going to complain about the carrier when they are getting a cupcake to go!

Single Cupcake Carrier
This is such a simple carrier that only requires you to do a little washing.  Take an empty and CLEAN tall food container with a cover.  Some great containers are tall yogurt containers or a 1L ice cream container.  Put the cover down on a the counter upside down and put your cupcake on top.  Then, place the container over top your cupcake and snap it into the cover.

Three-Cupcakes Carrier

Need to unload more than just one cupcake?  You can make a cupcake carrier that holds three with a shallow box and some scissors.  Take an empty shallow box like your cake mix box or cracker box and cut three holes on the front that are large enough to drop the base of your cupcake in, but small enough that the icing top sticks out.  Drop your cupcakes in and your guests have a sturdy cupcake tray they can bring home.  This one is the most popular carrier I've rigged because you can take home more than three!  The only trouble is when you make more than three cupcake flavours and people have to pick!  Like this past weekend when I whipped up four new flavours including the popular Death by Chocolate Cupcake, recipe to follow in my nest post.