I love cupcakes,  Who or where were cupcakes invented?
The first cake to be called CUPCAKE was back in 1796 was written by American Cookery, Amelia Simmons.
Amazing that it was so long ago.  I've never heard of Amelia Simmons.
Cupcakes are a Bristish English "fairy cake" and normally served even there in a thin paper cup.
So cupcakes are a cake that you would leave out for fairies?  I bet they disappeared fast when no one was looking.  Those darn fairies!!
and took their name from the cups they were baked in. This is the use of the name that has remained, and the name of "cupcake" is now given to any small, round cake that is about the size of a teacup. While English fairy cakes vary in size more than American cupcake, they are traditionally smaller and are rarely topped with elaborate icing.
The other kind of "cup cake" referred to a cake whose ingredients were measured by volume, using a standard-sized cup, instead
with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations, such as sprinkles, are common on cupcakes. The earliest reference of cupcakes can be traced as far back as 1796, when a recipe notation of "a cake to be baked in small cups" was written in "American Cookery" by Amelia Simms. However, the first use of the term "cupcake" was in "Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats" in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's "Receipts" cookbook where it referred to the