Cupcakes, also called fairy cakes, are the most delicious desserts. They're a small cake baked in a small paper.
Yes, I'm a big fan of cupcakes! 
The earliest description of a cupcake was in 1796 in a booked called "American Cookery"
Wow, cupcakes have been around a long time! My favourite kind has buttercream icing. 
Yes, just like with larger cakes, cupcakes can be topped with icing, decorations, candy and more!
Cupcakes seem so festive, like a party is about to happen. They are one of my favourite desserts.
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