What is the difference between a Cup Cake and a Muffin?

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Icing and Hundreds and Thousands?

― gazza, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:31 (twenty-three years ago)

A cupcake is a smaller (birthday-type) cake, a muffin is a smaller, round loaf. The cupcake is sweeter and dessert-treat like, while the muffin generally has an implication of healthiness.

― Poppy (poppy), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 07:42 (twenty-three years ago)

cupcakes are eaten with lemonade at birthday parties, muffins are eaten with coffee. And yeah muffins NEVER have icing. top of the muffin to you..

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 08:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Steven Tyler don't sing about cupcakes.

― James Blount (James Blount), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 08:38 (twenty-three years ago)

b-b-but surely you can eat a cup cake with a coffee? And perhaps Steven Tyler *SHOULD* sing about cupcakes?

I think the term Muffin is just a scam to make you think your not actually eating CAKE!

― gazza, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 08:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, GAWD, this has produced hours and hours of Lollies Van Conversation. It's SOOO hard to get good muffins in the UK. A muffin should be less sweet and have a different consistency that is less cake-like than a cupcake. A cupcake is a miniature cake, that is all. A muffin is a different beast altogether, and I wish Brits would stop treating them like they are one and the same.

― kate, Tuesday, 26 November 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Muffins are made with batter (quite runny) and cup cakes are made with cake mixture (similar to, I dunno, Victoria Sponge or maybe madeira, depending on the type). Neither rocks as hard as the rock bun, though.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)

English muffins -- what do the English call them?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 18:35 (twenty-three years ago)

good muffins are quite difficult to make because the trick is in the mixing - you cant over mix and you cant under mix or you end up with disaster-muffin.
cup cakes are easy and as madchen says they are made with different ingredients and consistency.
not that i make either. i just get given nice little cookbooks on how to make them, courtesy of 2 older sisters who hope to make a 'good mother' out of me yet!

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

DISASTER-MUFFIN!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

that icing thing entirely true, muffins can have melted chocolate on top. which is good.
I like muffins.

― nellie (minna), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

A good muffin is better than any cupcake. But the question has already been adequately answered above. Muffins shouldn't be dry, but they shouldn't be spongey either.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

muffins (american) are more filling than cupcakes.

muffins (english) are nicer than the pair.

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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