The invention of cupcakes has two sources and probably thereis the truth in both. One thoughtis credited to the fact that the ingredients were originally measured by bakers in standard sized cups.
Another toughtis credited to the cakes being baked in the tea cup and again. this evidence in old cookery books.
Today, the term"cupcakes"is used for a small cake baked in fluted paper or foil baking case.acup shaped mould.The cupcakes sometimes caleed the fairy cake probably because theay are small,light, and delicate, like fairy.their base is made with the basic palin cake mixture with a simple iced topping or a dusting of icing sugar.
