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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• Jg1@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well thought out answer. I like it

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• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the correct answer

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• sobriquet@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Theseus, is that you ?

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This was exactly my thought, too

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• Freshparsnip@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• cattywampas@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• deepfriedchril@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfrosted cake is still cake.

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  • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    not in the club, tho

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• bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Muffins are also in cups though

      Checkmate cakecupalists

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• Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bad news for u bud, muffins are cakes.

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    • gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They’re quickbreads, actually.

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