HAPPY NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CUPCAKE DAY

National Chocolate Cupcake Day is celebrated annually on October 18. This is the day for Chocolate and dessert lovers!

Cupcakes have also been known to be called:

• Fairy Cakes
• Patty Cakes
• Cup Cakes

Cupcakes can be traced back to 1796 when there was a recipe notation of “a cake to be baked in small cups” written in American Cookery (by Amelia Simmons).  The earliest known documentation of the term “cupcake” was in 1828 in “Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats” in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook.
Cupcakes were originally baked in heavy pottery cups.  Today, some bakers still use individual ramekins, small coffee mugs, large tea cups, or other small ovenproof pottery-type dishes for baking their cupcakes.