Talk:Cupcake

message: With respect, fairy cakes are NOT called cupcakes or patty cakes in Australia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chillchillchill (talk • contribs) 18:18, 26 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: https://www.vanillacupcakery.com.au/ my favourite cupcakes and cakes in Sydney Thewiseone99 (talk) 04:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia naming 

message: Doesn't seem to make too much sense, since that's over two centuries before the invention of movable type... AnonMoos (talk) 15:03, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "recipes for cupcakes have been printed since at least the late 12th century"

message: Amelia Simmons is the author of American Cookery, and the author of the first known published recipe. See the wiki Entry for American Cookery. Also this is the name given at the linked citation, so I assume it was just a slip up to have written Amelia Simms.
Untowardland (talk) 21:01, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: .  WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  correction: Amelia Simmons, NOT Amelia Simms  

message: * Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary () defines fairy cake in British English as being the same thing as a cupcake in American English.  
* British English A to Zed, Third Edition ( p. 440) says that the two terms are equivalent.
The blog being put forth as a claim that cupcakes are larger than fairy cakes is being misrepresented:  it says that the terms are equivalent, and that American-style muffins are larger than fairy cakes.  The BBC recipe differentiates between what it calls "small fairy cakes" and "deep cupcakes", without saying anything about how the normal sizes of each compare.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 01:00, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better sources 

message: I note the infobox gives USA as the place of origin, but I think this is questionable. Amelia Simmons (in the USA) is the first known source for cakes cooked in cups (1796). However, the term "cupcake" is an American term, and for those of us in other countries who call them fairy cakes, the "cup" is not the determiner of origin. An older source "The Complete Confectioner" by Frederick Nutt was published in London in 1789, and describes the manufacture of small paper cases for baking little cakes. Reference. This is a European reference that predates the earliest American reference by seven years. I am going to incorporate this into the article, and would suggest an update of the infobox also. Timothy Titus Talk To TT 03:11, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Place of origin

message: Removed the information in the first section which states Cupcakes are usually used for heavenly goodness and are very yummy. People who don't like cupcakes are VERY naughty. I am Cupcake Lover and as my name suggests, I go bananas over cupcakes. It doesn't matter what flavour, cupcakes are cupcakes. But, Red velvet cupcakes are the best! :)" <--- Not really what a factual page of cupcakes actually needs. Snowstormskies (talk) 00:23, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Welcome to Wikipedia, Snowstormskies, and thanks for cleaning up that mess.  If you look in the page history, that appeared shortly before you cleaned it up.  WP:Vandalism in the form of "cute jokes" is sometimes a problem on pages like this.  Thank you for fixing it!  WhatamIdoing (talk) 00:33, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idiot in the first section  

message: I truly like the idea of this periodic table, however those don't appear to be cupcakes. It looks like a flat sheet-cake that has been cut into squares and frosted. I can see how cupcakes could be used for this idea though. Also, it says this is common, however I've never seen one, and I'm a science teacher, though I now may have to do this.Flight Risk (talk) 20:16, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that they don't really look like cupcakes to me either.  The whole "cupcake themes" section seems unnecessary and has an WP:UNDUE focus mainly on one example.  Deli nk (talk) 20:40, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the example is notable enough. The text is fine but it would be better if the photo showed actual cupcakes, not a sheet cake. Jonathunder (talk) 22:07, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A periodic table of cupcakes 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Add  template.
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replies: text: Done — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 22:55, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 June 2016 

message: This link is reduntant, since it links to the same page at the same section the link is in. Not much more to say 
14.203.7.151 (talk) 05:23, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundant link (cake in a mug) 

message: Locked??  Cupcakes??  WTF!!
187.143.74.31 (talk) 21:19, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locked? 

message: Queen cake is redirected here, but the actual article lacks any mention of said cake. This is also a bit strange as Queen cake is known at least since 1725 https://researchingfoodhistory.blogspot.se/2011/04/queen-cakes-and-patty-pans.html (I checked with my electronic copy, it's there). That particular recipe doesn't mention any type of small fluted pans however.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A04:AE04:4402:EE00:5119:F6E6:2305:CEAB (talk) 06:56, 16 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: There is also a recipe, akin to the 1725 Queen Cake which should rightfully be called Princess cake ;-) in "Queens delight" 1671, "To make a Cake the way of the Royal Princess, the Lady Elizabeth, daughter to King Charles the first" which is very much like a Queen cake. It too doesn't mention pans of any sort.Shieldfire (talk) 03:59, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is a mention of Queen Cake in the 1739 text "THE House-keeper's Pocket-Book; And Compleat FAMILYCOOK." by Sarah Harrison. It follows the same standardized set of ingredients the other Queen Cake recipes share, namely sugar, eggs, currants and (usually) rose water. Some of these early recipes mention paper moulds, and this is the oldest I have found that does this. Shieldfire (talk) 15:46, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

text:  Although the 1764 Kings Cake in Moxon does mention paper tins.Shieldfire (talk) 04:18, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  It looks like Queen Cake recipes didn't use paper (or other) moulds until at the earliest 1739 - eventhough the recipe composition was known and used. Funilly enough Moxon differentiates between King cakes (without) and Queen cakes (with) moulds.Shieldfire (talk) 15:46, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queen cake