I'm not baking cupcakes with them at all, but using them as dividers inside my tiffin, a compartmentalized metal lunch pail of Asian Indian origin (sort of like the Japanese bento boxes). Bento culture has lots of clever accessories to divide and section foods. One can mail off to get them from Japan, but these cupcake molds work too. For instance, I just set up a lunch with figs, cucumber slices and grapes in the same compartment, each nested in one of these baking cups within the larger compartment. I like these because they seem sturdy, flexible enough to squash into the overall tiffin shape, but not flimsy--that is, they appear to be strong enough to hold up to repeated washing.