Tea Cup "Muffin Tins"

In a moment of necessity I found a good way to make cupcakes without a muffin tin.  When I make cupcakes I rarely need to make more than 18, which is the number of spaces in my muffin tins.  The other night I had to quickly figure out a way to make 27 cupcakes in one go.

Bill had promised a treat to the 27 boys in the dorm if everyone was on time for check-in at 10 pm.  We have one kid who just can't seem to get here on time and so I was probably off the hook for making up a snack for them.  But, surprise!  The less-than-punctual one made it on time.  Since it was 10:00 at night there was not enough time to bake two batches of cupcakes.  So I raided my cupboard for teacups.

I dropped the cupcake papers into the tea cups then filled and baked them with the cups on a cookie sheet.  The only difference is that the bottoms of the cupcakes were a little rounded because of the shape of my cups.  They also took a few minutes longer to bake than the ones in the muffin tins.  They popped out of the tea cups with no problems.  And I think they might have tasted good, because the boys in the dorm wasted no time in devouring them.