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!
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
a contest for bakers in Ohio and Michigan.
In 1927 Rose and Mandel opened a small delicatessen near their apartment. The delicatessen had only a one-burner stove, so Rose would cook in the apartment. "We worked in shifts until one in the morning when I would go home, set the yeast dough, and while it was rising, make cupcakes, ice a sheet cake, bake a batch of cookies, and roll the schnecken — cinnamon rolls — to let them rise again. I would stick another