cupcake
Sign in to saveA cupcake (AmE, CanE), fairy cake (BrE), or bun (IrE) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting, icing and various other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.
Key facts
- Food.name
- Cupcake
- Food.image
- File:Cupcakes, chocolate and strawberry flavour.jpg
- Food.image_size
- 240px
- Food.caption
- Plain cupcake with strawberry icing and chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing
- Food.alternate_name
- Fairy cake, patty cake, cup cake
- Food.country
- United States
- Food.type
- Cake
- Food.main_ingredient
- Butter, sugar, eggs, flour; optionally, frosting and other cake decorations
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A cupcake (AmE, CanE), fairy cake (BrE), or bun (IrE) is a small cake designed to serve one person, which may be baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup. As with larger cakes, frosting, icing and various other cake decorations such as fruit and candy may be applied.
==History== The earliest extant description of what is now often called a cupcake was in 1796, when a recipe for "a light cake to bake in 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.