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a whole cake's ego shrunk down to fit your fist.
means Small individual cakes baked in cup-shaped molds or paper liners, typically frosted and meant to be eaten in a few handheld bites.
from An American coinage from the early 19th century, with two threads tangled in the name. The likeliest is that these were 'cup cakes' because the ingredients were measured by the cupful — a flour cup, a sugar cup — back when recipes counted in cups rather than weighing on scales. The other thread is that they were baked in small cups or teacups before muffin tins were common. Both stories pull the same way: a cake scaled to the size of a cup.
- war birth
- Rose in the 1800s when cups beat scales for measuring.
- name logic
- Baked in cups, not the size you assume.
- frosting fraud
- Most store icing is more air than butter.
- record swarm
- One baker iced 8,000 in a single hour.
sprinkles cupcake — sprinkles cupcakes, opened by candace nelson in beverly hills in 2005, credited with starting the gourmet cupcake trend
magnolia bakery cupcakes — magnolia bakery in new york city became famous after appearing on sex and the city in 2002, popularizing cupcakes nationwide
george's cupcake competition — dc cupcakes opened by katherine kallinis and sophie kallinis in washington d.c. in 2008, later featured on tlc reality show