10/19/2016
Did you know?
Today is.....NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE DAY!
Cupcakes have also been known to be called:
Fairy Cakes
Patty Cakes
Cup Cakes (different from Cupcakes-one word)
Cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when there was a recipe notation of “a cake to be baked in small cups” written in American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons. The earliest known documentation of the term cupcake was in 1828 in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats in Eliza Leslie’s Recipe cookbook. Cupcakes were originally baked in heavy pottery cups. Today, some bakers still use individual ramekins, small coffee mugs, large teacups, or other small ovenproof pottery-type dishes for baking their cupcakes.
Enjoy!
