Cupcake lovers celebrate each year on National Vanilla Cupcake Day. These small cakes get their day on November 10th. Indulge in one or several.
- 15th Century – The Totonac people of the Aztec Empire were the first to cultivate the vanilla bean.
- 1796 – Cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when a recipe notation for a cake to be baked in small cups was written in American Cookery (by Amelia Simmons).
- 1828 – The earliest known documentation of the term cupcake was in 1828 in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.
- 1919 – Hostess created its first-ever snack cake – the famous Hostess Cupcake.
- 1920s — The idea for frosting cupcakes started with the options of chocolate or vanilla frosting.
- 1947 – cupcakes were re-designed and got the look they have today, thanks to D.R. “Doc” Rice. Rice worked for Hostess
- 1950 – Winston Churchill started the act of icing cupcakes. They were covered in lard before then.
- 1950s – Cupcakes gained popularity in 1919 when Hostess began mass producing them. But they weren’t the cream-filled, frosted kind we all know until the 1950s.
- 2000s – Cupcakes started gaining popularity in the early 2000s when NYC shops like Magnolia Bakery were featured on Sex and the City.
- 2005 – the world’s first Cupcake-only bakery, Sprinkles, in Beverly Hills, California, USA, was opened in 2005.
- 2012 – approximately 770,000,000 cupcakes were eaten in the US in 2012.
- An average adult living in the United States is believed to consume at least one cupcake per day
- 2012 – Sprinkles Bakery, the world’s first cupcake-only bakery from Beverly Hills, developed a hole-in-a-wall ATM that dispenses cupcakes 24 hours a day. It holds up to 600 fresh cupcakes at a time!
- 2017 – according to Google, “cupcake recipes” are the fastest-growing recipe search
- Cupcakes have also been known as:
- Fairy Cakes
- Patty Cakes
- Cup Cakes (different from Cupcakes (one-word)
- Cupcakes were originally called “Number Cakes” or “1234 Cakes” because it was an easy way to remember portions…One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs, one cup of milk, and one spoonful of soda.
- In previous centuries, before muffin tins were widely available, the cakes were often baked in individual pottery cups, ramekins, or molds and took their name from the cups they were baked in. This is the use of the name “cupcake” now given to any small cake that is about the size of a teacup.
- Original cupcake recipes were not frosted and usually just flavored with spices or dried fruit.
- The Hostess conveyor oven can turn out 11,000 cupcakes an hour!
- Vanilla is the only fruit-bearing member of the orchid family.
- 13% of brides decide to serve cupcakes at their wedding as opposed to the traditional wedding cake.
- Chocolate is the most popular cupcake flavor. It is followed by vanilla, strawberry, and red velvet.
- An old English tradition says that if you put a fruit cupcake under your bed, you will dream of your future spouse.
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