Welcome to our cupcake recipes website. We are happy to have you here and we hope you’ll find what you’re looking for, be it only a new cupcake recipe for you to make together with your kids or for some cool cupcake decorating ideas, or for some creative ideas of cupcake liners. We’ve got everything cupcake-related, from basic ingredients and instructions on how to bake a cupcake to the craziest cupcake frosting ideas for special occasions you may have never thought of.
What Are Cupcakes and Why Are They Popular?
But what is a cupcake and what makes it so special? If were to look at a classical definition, a cupcake is a small cake baked in a muffin tin or in an individual pottery cup, ramekin or baking cup, yielding one serving, which can be eaten using solely the hands. Most cupcake recipes call for frosting, sprinkles or other decorations, but there are also versions of plain cupcakes. In the UK and Ireland, cupcakes are known as fairy cakes. Cupcakes can be served at tea time, at parties or any time you crave for something sweet.
Like muffins, cupcakes have been around for decades. It’s not clear whether muffins are cupcakes without frosting or cupcakes are sweet muffins with a frosting decoration, but they managed to stay popular because of a few simple facts:
Cupcakes are fun: you don’t have to be a child to love those cute little sweets with colorful icing and mouth watering sprinkles on top. If adults like them, it’s easy to imagine that children love them. Ask a child to help you bake some fancy cupcakes and you’ve got her in the kitchen for life.
No tools are needed to eat a cupcake. This makes them the ideal dessert for parties, as you eliminate dishwashing or buying disposable plates and spoons which look and feel so cheap. Cupcakes are baked in special paper liners, so your guests won’t even get their hands dirty when enjoying their dessert. Lately, there is a growing trend of serving cupcakes at weddings, instead of a wedding cake. In this case, the cupcakes would be arranged on a stand in order to form a cupcake tower, resembling the traditional wedding cake.
Small portions help controlling the intake of calories and of various nutrients, especially if you bake the cupcakes at home, so you can control what ingredients go inside them. You may say there’s no difference between eating ten cupcakes and eating ten pieces cut from a big cake. Indeed, there’s no difference, but psychologically, you’d stop when seeing those cupcake liners piling in front of you. Well, at least some of us would stop.
Got Cupcake Recipes?
Send us your best cupcake recipe with a photo and we are going to publish it in our special Guest Cupcake Bakers section, giving you full credit for it. It’s another chance for you to prove your skills and to meet like-minded, cupcake loving people. All of you are welcome to give your feedback and to rate cupcake recipes submitted by other readers. Based on the number of votes, we are going to award The Best Cupcake Recipe of the Month, which will come with a prize (which for now is a surprise).
Got Cupcakes? Need New Cupcake Recipes?
Welcome to our cupcake recipes website. We are happy to have you here and we hope you’ll find what you’re looking for, be it only a new cupcake recipe for you to make together with your kids or for some cool cupcake decorating ideas, or for some creative ideas of cupcake liners. We’ve got everything cupcake-related, from basic ingredients and instructions on how to bake a cupcake to the craziest cupcake frosting ideas for special occasions you may have never thought of.
What Are Cupcakes and Why Are They Popular?
But what is a cupcake and what makes it so special? If were to look at a classical definition, a cupcake is a small cake baked in a muffin tin or in an individual pottery cup, ramekin or baking cup, yielding one serving, which can be eaten using solely the hands. Most cupcake recipes call for frosting, sprinkles or other decorations, but there are also versions of plain cupcakes. In the UK and Ireland, cupcakes are known as fairy cakes. Cupcakes can be served at tea time, at parties or any time you crave for something sweet.
Like muffins, cupcakes have been around for decades. It’s not clear whether muffins are cupcakes without frosting or cupcakes are sweet muffins with a frosting decoration, but they managed to stay popular because of a few simple facts:
Got Cupcake Recipes?
Send us your best cupcake recipe with a photo and we are going to publish it in our special Guest Cupcake Bakers section, giving you full credit for it. It’s another chance for you to prove your skills and to meet like-minded, cupcake loving people. All of you are welcome to give your feedback and to rate cupcake recipes submitted by other readers. Based on the number of votes, we are going to award The Best Cupcake Recipe of the Month, which will come with a prize (which for now is a surprise).