I couldn’t wait to share this morning’s series featuring Food Holidays: October 18th, 2021: National Chocolate Cupcake Day. Charlie loves Chocolate Cupcakes with Chocolate Icing and in our #Homeschool Cooking Class this morning Charlie is going to ask his Grandmother Sherry if she would like to make Cupcakes with him.
David says when there making the Cupcakes they should Frost half of the Cupcakes in Chocolate Icing and the other half using White Icing ie Vanilla why I think they should use Lemon Icing which is my favorite. If you were making Chocolate Cupcakes today which flavor of Icing would you want to use today and why?
Do you know what’s better than Chocolate Cake? A Chocolate Cupcake. That’s right, while we adore Cakes, there’s a tug of delightful selfishness in a Cake you can consume all to yourself, allowing you to celebrate in a bit of gluttony. Chocolate Cupcake Day reminds us that sometimes its more acceptable to have a piece of confectionary delight that we simply don’t have to share with anyone. Find a Cupcake and make eat the Cupcake all alone, just be sure it’s a Chocolate Cupcake!
History of the Chocolate Cupcake Day
Chocolate Cupcake Day was established to celebrate the most perfect form of the Cupcake, a Chocolate Cupcake. Cupcakes are called by many names throughout the world, including our personal favorite which is the “Fairy Cake” from the British. The origin of the Cupcake seems to go back as far as 1796. When Cakes cooked in small cups were first mentioned,. The actual term Cupcake was first seen in Eliza Leslie’s 1828 cookbook.
Following that, there was a bit of a lull in the Cupcake scene. In 1919, food company Hostess began making what we would recognize today as the first mass-produced Cupcake, popularizing the concept. The company’s Cakes weren’t a flash in the pan Hostess Cupcakes still remain its most popular brand, beating out Twinkies, selling more than 600 million per year.
In the 1950s, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suggested that manufacturers update Cupcakes. Instead of making them with just Dried Fruit or Spices, he suggested adding Icing Sugar. Later in his life, he blamed the humble Cupcake for his double chin.
However, the real hey-day of Cupcakes wasn’t the 1950s, but the 2000s. The decade saw a flurry of activity on the Cupcake scene, with recipes published in major newspapers and commercial outlets introducing new Cupcake lines. In 2005, Sprinkles Cupcakes opened the world’s first Cupcake-only bakery. Sprinkles Cupcakes now sells more than 25,000 Cupcakes per day across eleven stores.
So popular is the idea of a personal Cake, of diminutive size, that there have been many different variations on both the style and technique. The invention of the Microwave has even created recipes that enable you to mix and cook a Cupcake in less than five minutes! Talk about the perfect Cake, is there anything better than unabashedly delicious instant gratification? We don’t think so!
It’s worth noting that one needn’t actually bake a Cupcake in a cup or even a cupcake tin.
For example, the periodic table of Cupcakes are frosted in colors to match the periodic table of elements and then marked with each of the elements in black frosting. While these have been made in traditional Cupcake tins, they have also been made as Sheet Cakes, cut down to Cupcake size, and frosted appropriately!
Cupcakes are really all about the size of the end result, not the method of getting there, and Chocolate Cupcake Day tells you to indulge in every variation, as long as it contains Chocolate!
How to celebrate Chocolate Cupcake Day
Indulge yourself in the most delicious of Cupcakes, the Chocolate Cupcake when Chocolate Cupcake Day comes around. Chocolate Cupcake Day should hardly require any encouragement to have you scarfing up all the delicious Chocolate Cupcakes you can find, and on Chocolate Cupcake Day, there is certainly nothing wrong with indulging in Chocolate Cupcakes at every meal!
If you love experimenting in the kitchen, you might want to check out a range of Chocolate recipes. Additional flavor options include Coffee, Peanut Butter, Cherry Cola, Orange Cream, Strawberry, or Salted Caramel. These ingredients add a new dimension to your baking and allow you to enjoy Chocolate complemented by other flavors.
Another idea is to host a Chocolate Cupcake Party. Each person brings along a Chocolate-themed Cupcake with them, and you can sample each other’s creations. What type of Chocolate Cupcake will you make? Charlie says he would like to make a Double-Chocolate Cupcake with Chocolate Whipped Cream Icing. You could make a Triple Chocolate Cupcake that has Chocolate Hershey Kisses mixed into the batter? Hosting a Tea Party lets you share ideas and get new inspiration for baking Cupcakes.
Chocolate Cupcake Day also has a Social Media presence and those interested can share information about the Holiday through Facebook and there Instagram accounts.
Chocolate Cupcakes are more than just food to delight the taste buds, though. Cupcakes are something that helps many people push through the struggles of life. The comfort of a delicious Cupcake is something you can enjoy in the evening after a busy day.
If you have a killer Chocolate Cupcake recipe, you can share this with the people you know. If you’ve made something delicious that nobody can resist, then don’t keep the recipe to yourself: share it!
Chocolate Cupcake Day, is about more than just eating it is bout celebrating the invention of the Cupcake because there’s nothing more enjoyable than sitting down to a Cupcake and knowing the Dessert is all yours.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
