I really like cupcakes. It is just enough of a cake to serve one person.
I absolutely love cupcakes. I like to bake them too!
Me too! The earliest mention of a cupcake was in 1796. Like did George Washington eat cupcakes?
Wow, that was a very long time ago that cupcakes were first made. What else do you know about their history?
In the 19th centure, there were two different uses for 'cup cake' and 'cupcake'
Oh I never thought about their name before. So why are they even called cup cakes?
Cupcake
A cupcake (also British English: fairy cake; Hiberno-English: bun; Australian English: fairy cake or patty cake) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, icing and other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.
History.
The earliest extant description of what is now often called a cupcake was in 1796, when a recipe for "a light cake to bake in
". Having started a custom cake business after attending Tante Marie's Pastry Program in San Francisco, she set her sights on cupcakes. "I was taking orders for special occasion cakes which I came to realize are, by definition, reserved for special, infrequent occasions," she said. "I wanted to create an artful and handcrafted dessert, yet one which people could eat on a daily basis...which led me to reinvent and elevate the lowly cupcake."
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