Welcome to the World of Cupcake Couture!

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Hello fellow cupcake lovers! I am pleased to welcome you to Cupcake Couture, my cupcake blog, and would like to start off by thanking you for reading my first post! Cupcakes for me are the best thing since sliced bread and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like a cupcake! In my blog, I’m going to take you through my adventures of cupcakes as I bake and try out recipes, experiment with decorating and even show you some of my own cupcake creations.

For my first post, I thought it’d be kind of fun to tell you some fun facts about cupcakes, and how these fluffy, sweet treats came to be in the first place! Hope you have fun reading, and keep your eyes peeled for my next post: a holiday inspired cupcake recipe with pictures!

Cupcake Beginnings

• Cupcakes were first made way back in the 1800’s as a treat to eat with tea by the ladies of the house.

• The name “cupcake” came about for two reasons:

1. The first cupcakes really were “cup cakes” – small cakes made in tea cups or patty pans, (molds similar to ones you would use for tarts), over the burning embers of a fireplace. Women started using cups to cook their cake in rather than a large clay pot because they not only cooked faster, but they were far less likely to burn when baking.
2. The name cupcake also came from the way women measured the ingredients for the cakes when making them. They used tea cups to measure out ingredients instead ofweighing everything because it was much faster and easier. 

Years later in the 20^th century, muffin tins were invented and the traditional cupcake shape we know today was born! 3. 

A Few Fun Facts

• The first written cupcake recipe was published by Miss. Leslie’s in her cookbook seventy-five recipes for pastry, cakes and sweetmeats in 1832!

• In 1919, hostess launched its first snack cake called “The Cupcake”; a small packaged snacking cake without icing or filling. 3.

• Cupcakes didn’t have icing until 1920!

• The world record for largest number of cupcakes eaten in the shortest amount of time, by one person, is 29 cupcakes in 30 seconds! That’s a lot of cupcakes at one go!!

• The world’s largest cupcake was made by GourmetGiftBasket.com in August 2009 for a fundraiser run by Passionately Pink for the Cure.

The cupcake weighed in at a honking 1224 lbs, totalled a shocking 2 million calories, and took 800 eggs to make!! 4.

Now that’s a cupcake!!!