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Cupcakes And Muffins!
Escape the Fate talks: “Cupcakes or Muffins?” and “Does Max snore?”
Cupcakes And Muffins Questions
What are the differences between Muffins and cupcakes?
There is actually a big difference between Muffins and Cupcakes.
Here’s something I read off a while ago back when i was wondering about it:
A cupcake really is like a miniature cake: light in weight, sweet, and often covered with icing and decorations. It tends to be not too tall because it’s texture isn’t strong enough to allow for a very tall structure. It’s always made with white flour as far as I know. A muffin is significantly heavier in texture and also in weight; with its cohesiveness, it can contain fruit, nuts or chocolate chips, which are not common in cupcakes. It is never iced and need not be particularly sweet. It can be made with ingredients as heavy as bran, and can be rather tall and have a large overhanging rim that doesn’t threaten to fall off. (The cupcake also has a rim, but it is rather delicate and not too large.)
If you threw a cupcake against the wall, you would hear something of a “poof!” If you threw a muffin, you would hear a “thud!”
A muffin goes with coffee, a cupcake with tea. (That’s a rather controversial statement, so perhaps this discussion should be moved to the controversial topics zone.) Fast food joints deal in muffins, especially in North America, but I have never seen one that sold a cupcake. Sociologically, a muffin is everyday living, whereas a cupcake is “we’re getting fancy.” Theoretically, a man could say, “hey honey” to his waitress while he was chewing on a muffin, but with cupcake in his mouth he could only say, “my dear.” If you were writing a novel, it would be a gross literary error to substitute a cupcake for a muffin.
Cupcake:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/connectingprinciple/cp-pic/project-images/cupcake.jpg
Muffin:
http://latis.ex.ac.uk/cfarchive/muffin.jpg
Hope this helped! Let me know if you have other questions =]
How to Make Cupcakes that Will Compete With Your Local Bakery #2
The cupcake has taken on a life of its own. There are bakeries and caterers who specialize in cupcakes or do only cupcakes. You can learn to make cupcakes at home that are just as good as the ones available commercially. Try this recipe for Delicious Homemade Cupcakes and Frosting. Yummy!
DELICIOUS HOMEMADE CUPCAKES AND FROSTING
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 cup chocolate liqueur
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line eighteen muffin cups with paper cupcake liners; set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, beat butter, sugar, and oil with an electric mixer on medium speed to combine. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
Add half the dry ingredients to the butter mixture and blend well. Add 1/4 cup of the sour cream; blend. Add the remaining dry ingredients; blend. Add remaining sour cream and the vanilla; blend.
Fill the paper lined muffin tins 3/4s full. Bake for 20 minutes at 325 degrees or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack, in the pan, for 5 minutes. Remove from the pan and cool completely on wire rack.
Pour the chocolate liqueur into a shallow bowl. Dip tops of cupcakes into the liqueur. Frost cakes with the white frosting recipe below. Top each cupcake with a fresh berry, if desired.
WHITE FROSTING:
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup chocolate liqueur
2 tbsp whipping cream
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1 lb powdered sugar
In a large mixing bowl, beat the butter, liqueur, whipping cream, and vanilla with an electric mixer on medium-high speed. Beat in powdered sugar until combined.
Yield: 18 cupcakes at 342 calories each
Enjoy!
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