Do you enjoy icing on a cupcake?
I do actually. I also like fruits or candy on it also. What about you?
I like chocolate on a cupcake.
The actual first recipe of a cupcake found was from 1828 in Eliza Leslie's cook book.
That's pretty recent.    Traditional cakes are much older.
Yes I guess so, she was an author of popular cook books. Maybe recipes have been around longer than that but she just put it down on paper.
That makes sense.    I wonder when they first made the similar product muffins.
Muffin
A muffin is an individual-sized, baked product. It can refer to two distinct items, a part-raised flatbread and a cupcake-like quickbread.
The flatbread is of British or European derivation, and dates from at least the early 18th century, while the quickbread originated in North America during the 19th century. Both are common worldwide today.
Quick bread muffins.
Quickbread muffins (sometimes described in Britain as "American muffins" but, more usually, simply as "muffins")
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