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If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TachyonTele@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨showerthoughts@lemmy.world⁩

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  • deepfriedchril@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Unfrosted cake is still cake.

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not in the club, tho

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  • Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cupcake, because muffin batter and cupcake batter are made slightly differently

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    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Bad news for u bud, muffins are cakes.

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      • gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They’re quickbreads, actually.

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  • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s a half-eaten cupcake. You can take two wheels off a car, but that doesn’t make it a motorcycle.

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    • MU5T4N6@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is the correct answer

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s still a cupcake because it’s cake and not muffin. Cake is a sweeter and fluffier kind of bread because it has more sugar and fat, whereas muffins are basically just dense bread.

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    • magiccupcake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Neither are really bread as they are not leavened with yeast.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you frosted a muffin, would you call it a cupcake? What if you baked a really tiny sourdough loaf, with garlic and onions. If you frosted it, would it be a cupcake?

    Completely different batter, so no. You would have a deconstructed cupcake.

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  • cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Muffins I believe are denser with more fat and less sugar. Though I see what you’re saying and we’re all just making excuses to eat dessert for breakfast sometimes.

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  • DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Theseus, is that you ?

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This was exactly my thought, too

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  • Jg1@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    When I see this question I can only be sad for people who can consider it perplexing. Yeah - if you have a sufficiently boring muffin and a sufficiently dense cake, you could see them as pretty similar but … eat better food.

    Put some good stuff in your muffins (blueberries, poppy seeds, nuts, chocolate, etc) and learn to keep your cakes lighter and fluffier (especially for cupcakes) instead of rich like a muffin.

    As others have said, they are different batters, the cooked result of both should be pretty noticeably different with it without frosting.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well thought out answer. I like it

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  • Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My understanding is that a cupcake is made of the same stuff as cake, while a muffin is more like bread

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  • sobriquet@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve asked myself (and anyone else that would listen) this question many times before, and still have not yet heard a satisfactory answer.

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t the cupcake defined by being in a cup? So I’d say a muffin is also a cupcake.

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    • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. A cupcake is defined by being a cake in a cup. Muffins aren’t cakes.

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      • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Muffins are also in cups though

        Checkmate cakecupalists

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