Baking with Origami

Jojo Krang · Post by **Jojo Krang** » March 23rd, 2010, 4:02 pm

Dear origami fans

It recently crossed my mind that origami made with parchment paper can be used for baking. I baked muffins in origami bunny balloons and I am happy with the result.

Do you know of any other origami models that can be used for baking? For example origami models that could substitute muffin paper cups or cake molds or that serve as a neat wrapping for baked goods.

Anything that looks neat, is stable enough to hold liquid cake mixture and can be fold with parchment paper used for baking purposes is fine.

I'd be happy if you offered some suggestions

paperlion · Post by **paperlion** » March 24th, 2010, 12:13 am

What a clever idea.

Anyway, boxes might work. You could start off with the Masu, and work upwards. Tomoko has some really cool octagonal box. you might have to change the size to attribute for the rising of the muffin(s). Maybe a slightly larger lid could fix this?

Jonnycakes · Post by **Jonnycakes** » March 24th, 2010, 6:34 pm

There should be several polyhedra that would work well. Boxes have been mentioned. Those are so cool! Great idea!

Jojo Krang · Post by **Jojo Krang** » March 24th, 2010, 9:16 pm

Thanks for your replies!

@paperlion: By Tomoko, do you mean Tomoko Fuse (sorry, I'm not an origami specialist). The octagonal boxes would be great for a cake. You could bake it in parchment paper and then cover it with a lid made from patterned and/or coloured origami paper.

@Jonnycakes: I'm a bit concerned that baking with polyhedra might not work too well because the cake mixture could drain off through the holes...

If you know of any origami boxes that look especially cool I'd be glad to know

paperlion · Post by **paperlion** » March 25th, 2010, 12:22 am

Yeah, I did mean Tomoko Fuse. Some of her books are origami boxes and fabulous origami boxes. Or something like that.

For online stuff, there is always Robin Glynn's star box. It is pretty tight where the modules connect, and if not, there is always some non-purist method......
http://glynnorigami.co.uk/Boxes.htm

HankSimon · Post by **HankSimon** » March 25th, 2010, 2:08 am

I think that people have used eggroll wrappers and folded cranes out of them.

http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article ... bleOrigami

http://www.origami-resource-center.com/ ... igami.html (Other stuff)

Lang has a section on Edibles:
http://www.langorigami.com/info/paper/n ... apers.php4

Sounds yummy. When you do it, please FAX us a taste.

- Hank Simon

dinogami · Post by **dinogami** » April 5th, 2010, 3:05 pm

My wife and I made the bunny muffins yesterday for Easter. Being in the U.S., we had to convert everything into Imperial units; I ended up making the bunny boxes from 7" squares of parchment paper, which were probably too small (and hard to fill). A couple things we learned from the experience that I'll pass on in case anyone else wants to try it!

* blend the cream cheese really, really, really well, or else chunks of it can clog the nozzle of whatever you use to fill them!

* the specified baking time is much too short...ours went easily 10-15 minutes beyond what was specified. Keep an eye on them to see when they're done!

* we tried to use a pastry icing tube and nozzle to inject the bunnies, which ended up being really messy, with the liquidy (low viscosity) mixture squirting out the top and around the nozzle. I'd advise getting hold of one of those diner-style mustard- or ketchup bottles and using that instead.

The muffins, though, were very tasty!