OXO Good Grips Cupcake Corer,Black/Red

We used these to core out premade cupcakes to fill with colored frosting for a gender reveal party for our baby. It worked very well, even after re-frosting, people thought we ordered the cupcakes this way from a bakery. Would highly recommend to easily add filling to cupcakes!

Works like a charm. I had to core and fill 3 dozen gluten-free and nut-free "mock" Hostess cupcakes for a wedding order. It made my life so much easier. I baked a test batch previous to ordering the corer, and it was a nightmare -- messy, time-consuming, and a pain in the tush. This was a huge help.

The cupcake corer is easy to use and very helpful.

Wow! This makes filling cupcakes so easy, which really adds a nice touch. I went with the directions on the packaging and used the sideways twist technique. It extracts a perfect plug of cake from the cupcake. Save the cake plugs. I put them in a little plastic container until ready to use so the small pieces of cake didn’t dry out when exposed to air. Fill the cavity with your filling using an icing bag or a ziploc bag with a snip off the corner. Then put the cake plugs you saved back in place. I’ve tried it so far with lemon curd and with pastry cream. Perfect for the average home cook when you want to “step up your game” a bit.

I ordered this to see if it would be better / easier than the small metal one I have since I like the idea of a plunger to pop the cage out. With the metal one I have to use a chopstick to push it out, though the metal one seems sharper and can be floured to help reduce cake sticking. This one was not much easier as my cake kind of stuck to it and it took a wider bite out of the cake. Perhaps it's because my cupcakes were fridge cooked first? Either way it's an ok product that got the job done without having to use a chopstick.

We are launching a new product line of allergen free organic/non-gmo filled cupcakes! I saw the technique used somewhere else, so I purchased one of these, as well as the little Wilton metal one. This one runs circles around the competition. However, there's one drawback. Our allergen-free cupcakes are a bit delicate, since they are gluten, dairy, and egg free. When we make the hole, we have to be very careful not to crack the sides of the cupcake. I've also found that depending on the filling, the cupcake can break. This hasn't stopped people telling me how delicious the cupcakes are though. I have to imagine that if you were creating a standard allergen-based cupcakes they would hold up a little better. The best feature though is how you pop out the bit of cupcake after you've pulled it out. On the other one we bought, there wasn't a reasonable way to eject the cupcake bit.

I am a big fan of OXO kitchen gadgets. This cupcake corer is easy to use and comes apart so it's so easy to clean. It cores out a big chunk of cupcake (like in the photo), but you're supposed to cut the top and place it back on the cupcake before icing. Buy it; you won't be disappointed!

I love using this to make amazing cupcakes! When I first opened the corer and saw the size I was worried the hole would be huge and overpower the cupcake but the size is actually perfect! It was so fast and easy to core, fill and recap my cupcakes. Picture is of strawberry cupcakes filled with lime curd (kind of like a key lime pie inside a cupcake). Definitely a must buy! Ps: This is the only type of corer I've ever used so I don't know what I'm missing and frankly after using it... I don't give a $&#^