Cupcake

Cupcake
	Plain cupcake with strawberry icing and chocolate cupcake with chocolate icing
Alternative names	Fairy cake, patty cake, cup cake
Type	Cake
Place of origin	United States
Main ingredients	Butter, sugar, eggs, flour; optionally, frosting and other cake decorations
	Media: Cupcake;

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.

^ Eriksson, Sofia; Hastie, Madeleine; Roberts, Tom (24 July 2014). Eat History: Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-4438-6479-4. The first recipe in my school recipe book was for patty-cakes, now known all over the country by their American name, cup cakes.

[1] Eriksson, Sofia; Hastie, Madeleine; Roberts, Tom (24 July 2014). Eat History: Food and Drink in Australia and Beyond. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 978-1-4438-6479-4. The first recipe in my school recipe book was for patty-cakes, now known all over the country by their American name, cup cakes.

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