I wish I had looked up Food Holidays: June 13th, 2021 earlier this morning because with my niece and nephew here I would have purchased Cupcakes and we would have had a little End of School year party we hadn’t been able to have.
Facts About Cupcakes:
- Cupcake liners do more than make it easy to remove Cupcakes from the pan. Traditionally, sides of tins are greased for easy removal, but also floured because the batter needs to have something to cling to. A cupcake liner takes care of both.
- On August 15, 2009 GourmetGiftBaskets.com broke the world record for the largest cupcake ever made. The cupcake was 1,224 pounds, 4 foot tall by 10 foot wide, and had 2 million calories.
- One of the most popular cupcake bakery’s in the U.S. is Crumbs in New York City.
- The first mention of a cupcake recipe goes as far back as 1796 when Amelia Simms wrote a recipe in “American Cookery” which referenced, “a cake to be baked in small cups”.
- However, it wasn’t until 1828 that the actual word cupcake was used by Eliza Leslie in her cookbook “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats”.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
