mask  +  31581 Mon, 31 May 04 09:09 PM Is there a difference between a cupcake and a muffin? mask Joined on Sun, Feb 22 2004 Junior Member 56 Difference Between

	Nestor  +  31594 Mon, 31 May 04 11:02 PM Yes. Cupcakes usually have icing on them and are supposed to be little, miniature cakes. They're for special occasions. Muffins are usually eaten at breakfast, don't have icing on them, and often contain fruit of some sort. Blueberry muffins are popular in the US. Some people put butter on them, and they are eaten warm, if possible. Nestor Joined on Mon, Mar 29 2004 Greensboro, North Carolina, US Junior Member 70

	bratannia  +  31595 Mon, 31 May 04 11:03 PM There might be some technical differences that a cook could tell us about, but from the consumer's point of view, the difference seems to be that a cupcake really is like a miniature cake: light in weight, sweet, and often covered with icing and decorations. It tends to be not too tall because it's texture isn't strong enough to allow for a very tall structure. It's always made with white flour as far as I know. A muffin is significantly heavier in texture and also in weight; with its cohesiveness, it can contain fruit, nuts or chocolate chips, which are not common in cupcakes. It is never iced and need not be particularly sweet. It can be made with ingredients as heavy as bran, and can be rather tall and have a large overhanging rim that doesn't threaten to fall off. (The cupcake also has a rim, but it is rather delicate and not too large.) If you threw a cupcake against the wall, you would hear something of a "poof!" If you threw a muffin, you would hear a "thud!" A muffin goes with coffee, a cupcake with tea. (That's a rather controversial statement, so perhaps this discussion should be moved to the controversial topics zone.) Fast food joints deal in muffins, especially in North America, but I have never seen one that sold a cupcake. Sociologically, a muffin is everyday living, whereas a cupcake is "we're getting fancy." Theoretically, a man could say, "hey honey" to his waitress while he was chewing on a muffin, but with cupcake in his mouth he could only say, "my dear." If you were writing a novel, it would be a gross literary error to substitute a cupcake for a muffin. bratannia Joined on Fri, Apr 9 2004 Amsterdam Junior Member 66

	mask  +  31638 Tue, 01 Jun 04 11:12 AM If you threw a cupcake against the wall, you would hear something of a "poof!" If you threw a muffin, you would hear a "thud!" Mohoahaha! Great explanation, Bratannia. mask

	Clive  +  284858 Tue, 24 Oct 06 12:54 AM Hi, What can you make when you put a cupcake and muffin together? Best wishes, Clive Clive Joined on Thu, Oct 28 2004 Canada Veteran Member 29,304 El tango argentino es un pensamiento triste que se puede bailar (The tango argentino is a sad thought which can be danced) Enrique Santos Discépolo

	Marius Hancu  +  284874 Tue, 24 Oct 06 02:07 AM Pics: cupcake http://www.chelseagirl.net/photos/images/cupcake.jpg muffin http://latis.ex.ac.uk/cfarchive/muffin.jpg Marius Hancu Joined on Wed, Apr 26 2006 Veteran Member 11,673

	Philip  +  284877 Tue, 24 Oct 06 02:38 AM And then we have scones in the Pacific Northwest that are so hard and dry that they would most likely shatter if thrown against a wall.  Some people crave them....I find them dull, unless they have frosting on them and are heated.  (They're almost as hard as biscotti.) Philip Joined on Thu, Jun 23 2005 Veteran Member 8,614 At reise er at leve! - H. C. Andersen