Each year, December 15th also recognizes National Cupcake Day. The cupcake was originally known as the 1-2-3-4 cake because the recipe called for 1 cup of butter, 2 cups of sugar, 3 cups of flour, 4 eggs and also 1 cup of milk and 1 spoonful of baking soda.
- Even the word cupcake sounds like a miniature celebration. They’ve been known by other phrases that make us put our hands together in glee, too! For example:
- Fairy Cakes
- Patty Cakes
- Cup Cakes (different from Cupcakes (one-word)
- One of the first recipes for a cupcake can be traced back to 1796. A recipe notation for a cake to be baked in small cups was written in American Cookery (by Amelia Simmons).
- The earliest known documentation of the term cupcake shows up in 1828 in Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. The cookbook was by Eliza Leslie.
- Cupcakes were actually 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.
- Cupcakes gained popularity in 1919 when Hostess became mass producing them. But they weren’t the cream filled, frosted kind we all know until the 1950’s.
- The record for eating the most cupcakes in the shortest time is 29 cupcakes in 30 seconds.
- The world’s largest cupcake weighed over 1,200 lbs and had over 2 million calories.
- The first “cupcake only” bakery is Sprinkles Cupcakes, opened in 2005. They make over 25,000 cupcakes a day from 11 locations.
- 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 that has remained, and the name of “cupcake” is now given to any small, round cake that is about the size of a teacup.
- The other kind of “cup cake” referred to a cake whose ingredients were measured by volume, using a standard-sized cup, instead of being weighed.
- According to Google, “cupcake recipes” are the fastest growing recipe search.
- The Hostess CupCake with its signature frosting squiggle, was arguably the first mass-produced cupcake in 1919. But they weren’t the cream filled or frosted.
- Cupcakes were finally decorated with frosting in the 1920’s. Cupcakes were frosted in either Chocolate or Vanilla Frosting.
- There are about 400 cupcake bakeries in the United State.
- Approximately, 770,000,000 cupcakes is eaten in the United State per year.
- Apparently 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.
- H.P. Lovecraft blamed the creation of his most famous mythical monster, Cthulhu, on an overdose of cupcakes. He had locked himself in his basement with a dozen of them and eaten until the rush of sugar caused him to hallucinate about ultimate evil.
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