Cupcake, because muffin batter and cupcake batter are made slightly differently
If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin?
Submitted 2 weeks ago by TachyonTele@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Sendpicsofsandwiches@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
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.
MU5T4N6@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This is the correct answer
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.
magiccupcake@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Neither are really bread as they are not leavened with yeast.
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.
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.
DeadNinja@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Theseus, is that you ?
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
This was exactly my thought, too
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.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Well thought out answer. I like it
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
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.
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.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
No. A cupcake is defined by being a cake in a cup. Muffins aren’t cakes.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Muffins are also in cups though
Checkmate cakecupalists
deepfriedchril@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Unfrosted cake is still cake.
toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
not in the club, tho