Thursday, October 16, 2014

pretty cupcake for first lady

First mention of the cupcake can be traced as far as 1796, when a recipe notation of "cake to be baked in small cups" was written in American Cookery by Amelia Simmons. The earliest documentation of the term cupcake was in "Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and sweets" in 1828 in Eliza Leslie Receipts cookbook. A Hostess CupCake, showing the typical "snack cake" style cupcake. In the early 19th century, there were two different uses for the name cup cake or cupcake. In previous centuries, before muffin tins were widely available, the cakes are often baked in individual pottery cups, ramekins, or molds and took their name from the cups they were baked in. It is the use of a fixed name, and the name of "cupcake" is now given to any small cake that is about the size of a teacup. While English fairy cakes vary in size more than American cupcakes, they are traditionally smaller and rarely topped with elaborate icing. Another kind of "cup cake" referred to a cake whose ingredients were measured by volume, using a standard-sized cup, instead of weighed. Recipes whose ingredients were measured using a standard-sized cup could also be baked in cups; However, they are more commonly baked in tins as layers or bread. Within a few years later, when the use of volume measurements was firmly established in home kitchens, these recipes are known as 1234 cakes or quarter cakes, so called because they are made up of four ingredients: one cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs . They are plain yellow cakes, somewhat less rich and less expensive than pound cake, due to using about half as much butter and eggs compared to pound cake. The names of the two major classes of cakes were intended to signal the method to the baker; "cup cake" uses a volume measurement, and "pound cake" uses a weight measurement. Cupcakes are not only popular with the taste but also the decorations were beautiful, and is often used to express gratitude, love and to celebrate important events in life, such as birthdays and weddings. The biggest challenge in making the cupcakes are as where to make cupcakes that have a good taste, but still has a beautiful decoration as well as good for health, the following examples are gorgeous cupcake











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