1796: American Cookery makes mention of a recipe notation of “a cake to be baked in small cups”.
2011: The modern North American female goes completely goofy for the basic mixture of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. They tinker with the recipe and create hundreds of variations. They centre entire businesses around the sale of said creations, and they focus entire television reality shows and competitions on the flavorful confections.
For (nauseating) example,
- Cupcake Wars – But no one actually goes to battle! How disappointing.
- DC Cupcakes – What can I say? Even the title is boring.
- Cupcake Girls – Theses girls are annoying, and there’s no nudity!
I have a friend who has launched her own “Cupcake Nation” from her home, so I’m skating on thin ice here (especially since she can kick my ass), but I see dozens of giggly females prance through my hotel every weekend, their arms full of trays of cupcakes and it just makes me scratch my head sometimes.
Especially when you see the wedding parties that have thrown out the notion of the traditional cake and opted to totally embrace this new fad. Tell me Grandma is going to enjoy trying to jam a cupcake in her withered mouth!
Until next time, my friends…
Cupcakes have realy gotten out of control! I have a friend that makes them ans I do love them but our town doesn’t need 3 cupcakeries. I hope she doesn’t catch wind that I said this. She just brought over her chocolate bacon cupcakes and they were awesome! Big piece of chocolatdipped bacon on the top…..yum!!!!
Those cupcake makers really scare people, don’t they?
I predict all these cup cake makers will actually turn out to be aliens and one day will launch an all out butterscotch flavoured icing attack on western civilisation.
Remember you heard it hear first……
Great conspiracy theory!
Looks good, but I’m old fashioned. Give me a cake-cake!
I’m with you, Alan!
@GingerFightBack — I’m with you sister. LOL! They may be aliens, but I super enjoy watching the bake & make such Fabu ART — and it’s edible too. We all win!!!! (pass me a piece of the Babylon tower will ya’, and a napkin or two). LOL!
I love eating cupcakes, I just don’t need so many tv shows devoted to them!
A friend of mine had a cupcake wedding cake. The gusts started eating them while the wedding party was off getting pictures taken…
I’m not sure what to say about that…
Sounds like they were a hit.
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