National Chocolate Cupcake Day
Spoil yourself with a delicious chocolate cupcake on #NationalChocolateCupcakeDay
18 October is National Chocolate Cupcake Day, a day created especially for all chocolate and dessert lovers.
Cupcakes go by many names, like Fairy cakes, patty cakes and cup cakes and they can be traced back to a recipe notation written in Amelia Simmons’ American Cookery in 1796. The notation reads “A cake to be baked in small cups”.
The earliest known documentation of the term “cupcake” was in 1828 – it was recorded in Eliza Leslie’s Receipts cookbook titled Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats.
Heavy pottery cups were originally used to bake cupcakes. Today, some bakers still bake their cupcakes in individual ramekins, small coffee mugs, large tea cups or other small oven-proof pottery type dishes.
To celebrate National Chocolate Cupcake Day you can go online – or page through grandma’s recipe book – and find a chocolate cupcake recipe to try. If you want to be adventurous, try some of the following combinations: cream cheese chocolate cupcakes, chocolate fudge cupcakes with peanut butter frosting or a chocolate cream filled cupcake. You can also invite your friends and family to come over and watch an episode of Cupcake Wars – a reality-based competition show on Food Network.
Post on social media using #NationalChocolateCupcakeDay.
Try this delicious Molten Chocolate Lava Cupcake
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