The cupcakes can only be made without the cupcake papers. You have to put them inside the papers once done. Both the red and green lights turn on as soon as you plugged the machine, so I was confused on When to open it to put the batter. On most machines and cupcake makers like this, the green light only turns on When You Are Ready to put the batter. When the machine is heated, the green light turns off, and I just put the batter by then (weird). I guess, this is a deffect. Making cake pops is easy, but still the two lights of the machine are confusing. There are only 8 free sticks for cake pops! I do not know if this is really made in Germany or in China.
