Who invented the cupcake? Amelia Simmons invented the cupcake in 1796 when he wrote a recipe called “a light cake to bake in small cups” in her book named “American Cookery”.
The idea behind making tiny cakes was elaborated in 'American Cookery', a 1796 cookbook by Amelia Simmons. However, the word 'cupcake' itself did not come about until 1828, when celebrated author and cooking expert Eliza Leslie published her cookbook 'Receipts', which included the recipe for the first cupcake.
Candace Nelson opened Sprinkles Cupcakes, otherwise know as the first cupcake bakery in the world, in Beverly Hills, California back in 2005. Now it has several locations across the country and sells so much more than just cupcakes.
It will come as no surprise to you that the cupcake was first made in America. Cake itself has been around in some form since ancient times but the first references to 'a cake to be baked in small cups' rather than as a layer cake was in Amelia Simmons' 'American Cookery' book in 1796.
Retired FBI agent Stanley Ruffin described the horrific moment he found the decomposing body of 3-year-old Kamille “Cupcake” McKinney in a heap of trash at a Jefferson County landfill. “I saw what I thought was a doll just laying there,'' an emotional Ruffin testified.
Behold "The Golden Phoenix." Hailed as the world's most expensive cupcake, the pricey dessert costs a whopping £645 ($1,000) at Dubai's Bloomsbury's Cupcakes. Served on a covered Villari 24-carat gold empire cake stand, the cupcake is adorned with edible gold and chocolate.
Some cupcakes are decorated so elaborately, beyond just sponge and frosting, with fillings of ganache or jams, and hand-made embellishments that it takes longer to make a batch than it would to makes a layer cake.
Plain cupcakes without any icing or frosting can keep for up to a week on your kitchen counter, but iced cupcakes, or those with a sweet filling, will only last 2-4 days. Cupcakes topped with buttercream or other dairy ingredients need to be stored in the fridge and can last for 3-5 days refrigerated.
A year ago, The Wall Street Journal pronounced that "the gourmet-cupcake market is crashing," citing the financial travails of maybe the poster child of that market, Crumbs Bake Shop, another New York City-based purveyor of gourmet cupcakes that went public on the Nasdaq exchange in 2011.
Prosecutors said the two had planned to kidnap a child on the day the girl disappeared. The motive was unclear, with authorities saying Brown might have wanted the girl because she lost custody of her children and Stallworth might have wanted her for sex.
Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney was kidnapped from a birthday party at the Tom Brown Village housing community in October of 2019. McKinney's body was discovered 10 days later in a dumpster. Stallworth and Brown were both found guilty of kidnapping that resulted in death and conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim.
Fresh berries, diced peaches, or even thinly sliced kiwi can add a delicious sweet-tart flavour to these miniature cakes. In addition, fruit toppings can provide a beautiful colour contrast that makes cupcakes even more appealing.
Many people are surprised that you can freeze cupcakes, but they'll taste 'as fresh as the day they were made' after defrosting. Freezing cupcakes is a great hack to be able to save time before an event.
Many cupcake recipes rely on an important first step of creaming the butter and sugar together to develop a light, fluffy dough. Whipping softened butter and sugar together incorporates air into our cupcake batter and gives our cake its soft, even structure.
But if you still need a starting point, try this: Set a base price of $2 to $2.25 for a standard-size cupcake. Of course, this depends on your ingredients and your market. If you create higher-end cupcakes in a major metro area, you probably can (and should!) charge more.
Once you bake all the cupcakes, you'll need to transport them. While cupcake carriers are great if you need to move a few dozen, stackable strawberry boxes from Costco or your local grocery store are the way to go when you need to move hundreds of cupcakes. What is this? Just stack them up and you are good to go.
