http://www.englishforums.com/English/EslGeneralEnglishGrammar-Questions/Forum12.htmAsk your questions on grammar and get your sentence checked. We answer lots of different types of general English grammar questions here.enXMOD (Build: 3598.39794)http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#898976Sat, 12 Sep 2009 22:56:55 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:898976Anonymous0http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#898976http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-898976.xmlA 'scone' in the Pacific Northwest is no where near a 'proper' scone...as all of us Brits would expect!http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#586890Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:586890Anonymous1http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#586890http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-586890.xmlMuffins are usually eaten with turtle mustard. While cupcakes are usually made by crawford boyces grandma and aer for special occasions. Such as crawfords first basket.. yet to come.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#517756Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:517756Anonymous2http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#517756http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-517756.xmlWell, I've been having this debate with my friends at uni. Once I got home and got talking to my wise mum... who said that muffins have oil (and usually fruit) while cupcakes have sugar and butter, thus muffins are better for you, while cupcakes less so..http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#433564Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:433564CalifJim3http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/4/ghvm/Post.htm#433564http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-433564.xmlIt's hard to imagine writing three page on cupcakes. I think whole books have been written on the subject. No? CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#433502Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:433502Anonymous4http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#433502http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-433502.xmlIf kids eat it because they like it - It's a cupcake but if adults eat it because they think it's healthy...It's a muffin! LOLhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#290485Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:290485Grammar Geek5http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#290485http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-290485.xmlIt's hard to imagine writing three page on cupcakes. Here are some things to keep in mind when writing: Start your sentences with a capital letter. The word "I" is also a capital letter. "u" belongs in a text message, not in "ur" writing. Check your spelling. Aside from that, how can we help you?http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#290458Fri, 08 May 2009 03:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:290458Anonymous6http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#290458http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-290458.xmlno beacuse the muffin is better then the cupecakes.i need help for a project and i am doing cupcakes and my teacher say to put grammer about cupcake and and it must be type writen,main ideas,clear to your audiena,information is sincere,at least 3 pages-double spaces grammer sentence tfuctare,etc.i wish u will help mehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285462Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285462J Lewis7http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285462http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285462.xmlBiscotto - or biscuit in French - does in fact mean twice "twice baked". Most biscuits/cookies don't deserve that name as they're baked only once. "Cookie" comes from the Dutch, something like koeken (AnnVan, you can help us there!), which is also the origin of "cake"; pannekoek means pancake. As for changes in meaning on passing from one country to another, take the Italian word peperone (note the single p , by the way), which means a vegetable pepper (e.g. green or red). It's now used, at leaat in GB, to mean a hot spicy sausage (with the p doubled for some reason). The Italians play pin-ball. They give it an English name, but not pin-ball. They call it flipper ! PS Crumpets: I haven't eaten them for years, but I fully share Nona's...http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285314Fri, 08 May 2009 03:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285314khoff8http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285314http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285314.xmlCan we go back to biscotti for a minute? I think the word means "twice baked" -- biscotti (as they are known in the U.S.) are first partly baked in a sort of long, flat loaf, then removed from the oven and sliced and then baked again. The same technique is used for a Jewish cookie called mandel broit, although biscotti are usually bigger. Both get quite hard, so they keep for a long time and are best dunked in tea or coffee.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285210Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285210nona the brit9http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285210http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285210.xmlOooh crumpets, yummmmyyyyy. And no, English muffins have nothing to do with England.This thread recently moved from omlettes on to a discussion of English muffins and crumpets Post: 262088 . Crumpets are only one level - they aren't split in two or have a top and bottom half like an english muffin. They also are more yeasty/doughy in flavour with a very weird texture, not breadlike or cake like or English muffin like. Actually, they are rather like a synthetic bathroom sponge in texture....but they taste great and all those massive holes (which go all the way down to the base) are designed to soak up a very fattening amount of melted butter. You toast them then slosh on the butter and it all melts down into the crumpet. Heaven on a...http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285192Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285192Yankee10http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285192http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285192.xmlI've always kind of wondered whether what we call "English muffins" in the US would be recognized by someone from England as being English (and whether they're also called English muffins in England).http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285186Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285186Grammar Geek11http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285186http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285186.xmlBut Nona, while we're on the subject, what in heaven's name is a crumpet ?http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285154Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:56:59 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285154CalifJim12http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/3/ghvm/Post.htm#285154http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285154.xmlBiscotti are of Italian origin, yes. While the word may refer to any kind of cookie in Italy, it refers only to a particular kind in the U.S. -- the kind originally introduced into this country by Italian immigrants. They are quite different, as described by others above, from what we consider a typical "cookie" in AmE. (They have nothing to do with American biscuits.) CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285122Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285122J Lewis13http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285122http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285122.xmlThey sound a bit like what the Italians, especially the Tuscans, call cantucci , which are even better dipped in sweet wine!http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285108Fri, 08 May 2009 03:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285108nona the brit14http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285108http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285108.xmlYes they are hard, thick, rectangular biscuits meant for dipping in your coffee.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285106Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285106Grammar Geek15http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285106http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285106.xmlYes, in the U.S., they are a special type of cookies that you usually get at a coffee house. They are sliced, so they are flat on two sides, and often about the side of two fingers held together. They are always quite hard, and often feature nuts, and often are not very sweet compared to a more typical cookie. Some are yummy - but others taste (to me!) like cookies someone left in the oven for too long and forgot to add the sugar.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285086Fri, 08 May 2009 03:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285086J Lewis16http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285086http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285086.xmlWhat does Philip mean by biscotti ? In Italian it just means biscuits (BrE) or cookies (AmE). Does it have some special meaning to Americans/British?http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285074Fri, 08 May 2009 03:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:285074Grammar Geek17http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#285074http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-285074.xmlYes! My friend used that phrase the other day. I about died laughing! But it's so perfect.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284990Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:284990nona the brit18http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284990http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-284990.xmlDid you know muffin top is slang for that bit of tummy that bulges over the top of tight jeans?http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284894Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:284894Grammar Geek19http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284894http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-284894.xmlPhilip wrote: 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, you have to try my scones. I make a ham and cheese scone that a Brit would never recognize as a scone, but my coworkers can't get enough of! No shattering! There's a bakery near where I work that sells just "muffin tops." They're the best part anyway. So why buy the rest of the muffin when you can get just a top?http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284892Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:284892CalifJim20http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284892http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-284892.xmlSociologically, a muffin is everyday living, whereas a cupcake is "we're getting fancy." It was just the reverse where I grew up (in the Midwest (U.S.)). Cupcakes were as common as dirt, but muffins were only eaten by the better educated, monied class. And we drank either coffee or tea with either one! CJhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284877Fri, 08 May 2009 03:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:284877Philip21http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/2/ghvm/Post.htm#284877http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-284877.xmlAnd 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 .)http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#284874Fri, 08 May 2009 03:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:284874Marius Hancu22http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#284874http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-284874.xmlPics: cupcake http://www.chelseagirl.net/photos/images/cupcake.jpg muffin http://latis.ex.ac.uk/cfarchive/muffin.jpghttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#284858Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:284858Clive23http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#284858http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-284858.xmlHi, What can you make when you put a cupcake and muffin together ? Best wishes, Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#284846Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:284846Anonymous24http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#284846http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-284846.xmlWhat could you can make when you put a cupcake and muffin togetherhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31699Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:31699Aileen25http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31699http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-31699.xmlOh darlin' you make me laughhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31638Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:31638mask26http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31638http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-31638.xmlIf 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.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31595Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:31595bratannia27http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31595http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-31595.xmlThere 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...http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31594Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:31594Nestor28http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htm#31594http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-31594.xmlYes. 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.http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htmSun, 08 Mar 2009 04:57:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:31581mask29http://www.englishforums.com/English/CupcakesAndMuffins/ghvm/post.htmhttp://www.englishforums.com/English/comments12-31581.xmlIs there a difference between a cupcake and a muffin?