It’s a half-eaten cupcake. You can take two wheels off a car, but that doesn’t make it a motorcycle.
If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin?
Submitted 10 months ago by TachyonTele@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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sobriquet@aussie.zone 10 months 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.
sxan@midwest.social 10 months 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.
DeadNinja@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Theseus, is that you ?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This was exactly my thought, too
Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 10 months ago
My understanding is that a cupcake is made of the same stuff as cake, while a muffin is more like bread
hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 months 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.
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Neither are really bread as they are not leavened with yeast.
cattywampas@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
deepfriedchril@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unfrosted cake is still cake.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
not in the club, tho
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 months ago
Isn’t the cupcake defined by being in a cup? So I’d say a muffin is also a cupcake.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
No. A cupcake is defined by being a cake in a cup. Muffins aren’t cakes.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Muffins are also in cups though
Checkmate cakecupalists
Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Cupcake, because muffin batter and cupcake batter are made slightly differently
Jg1@lemmy.zip 10 months 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.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Well thought out answer. I like it