The Cupcake Story
“A cupcake (the common US, Canadian, and Australian term) or fairy cake (the common British term), is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small, thin paper cup. As with larger cakes, frosting and other cake decorations, such as sprinkles, are common on cupcakes”.
The term 'cupcake' is first mentioned in E. Leslie's 'Receipts' of 1828. Breaking with tradition of weighing ingredients at this time the ingredients began to be measured in cups. According to "Baking in America" by Greg Patent, this was revolutionary because of the tremendous time it saved in the kitchen. "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America." explains that the cup name had a double meaning because of the practice of baking in small containers — including tea cups!. 
Cups were convenient because hearth ovens took a long time to bake large cakes. Gem pans and early muffin tins were common in households around the turn of the 20th Century and cupcakes were baked directly in these. Throughout the 1900's cupcakes became popular kids treats partly due to their ease in baking. In the early 1900's Hostess introduced the snack cupcake, but it didn't become the Hostess Cupcake we know today until the 1950's.
Many people associate cupcakes with the popularity of homemaking of the 1950's and 60's although this is a myth. Cupcakes were no more popular during that time period than they are today. More likely is that adults associate cupcakes with memories from their childhood.
What is different today is that cupcakes have gone crazy!!
Traditionally they have been made for children in basic flavors,well...... what you will discover is that cupcakes are way more than your chocolate or vanilla in fact the flavour tree is endless!.
Cupcakes in Camden offer a generous array of delightful flavours and bake in small batches with local ingredients from the Macarthur region where ever possible.
"Cupcakes in Camden.....catering for the kid in us all!"
