Using silicone cupcake moulds

To continue from my previous post, I bought some silicone cupcake moulds recently. I wasn't really planning to bake any cakes, but since I wanted to try out the moulds, I decided to save two bananas to make banana cake. (It was a difficult decision because the bananas were very yummy :P )

I bought the moulds at RM9.90 for 12 pieces. They came in 6 colours, which looks very nice. :D 

I tried baking with and without cupcake liners. The silicone cups are slightly smaller and shorter than the liners. So there was more batter in the paper cups. But I baked them all together for the same amount of time, so the ones in the silicone cups are darker.

It was easy to take the cakes out of the silicone cups, and they were also nicely browned on the sides. I am satisfied!

The only weird thing that happened was that my cupcakes became slightly oval (it's not clear in the photo), because the silicone cups are softer than the aluminium cups that I used before. My baking pan has an uneven surface, and when the silicone cups were placed on that uneven surface, the bottom of the cups were no longer flat, leading to oval-shaped tops. But I don't care so much about a slightly uneven shape, so it's fine for me.