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?
small cups" was written in "American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons. The earliest extant documentation of the term "cupcake" itself was in "Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats" in 1828 in Eliza Leslie's "Receipts" cookbook.
In the early 19th century, there were two different uses for the term "cup cake" or "cupcake". In previous centuries, before muffin tins were widely available, the cakes were often baked in individual pottery cups, ramekins, or molds
". 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."
Although starting a cupcake bakery was a "high